How Was Your 2013 Season?

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Originally Posted by DZ

Not the greatest – downward trend continues in my local areas. Very few of what I call “highlight” nights where good bass were on the feed. One encouraging sign was the massive amount smaller bass locally during October when we had the bay anchovies and these fish didn’t want to leave.

Nebulas bluefish.

Another encouraging sign was the increased amount of sandeels along the entire range (Newport to Long Island). I’m not seeing a lack of bait like others have – tons of it out at Block in November -plenty to eat just nothing inshore to eat it.

this was basically my observation as well. I remember you posted back in July there were pogies in the boulder fields. I was fishing "across the way" from you and saw pogies dropping out of the bay, but the biggest i could muster or even saw caught was 15 lbs at most. I watched guys yo-yoing and live-lining pogies in a hole not even 25 yards from where we were throwing plugs at sun-up and they got squat (karma's a biatch, let the surf guys have a shot!). I don't think there were fish big enough to eat a whole pogie.

most encouraging thing I saw was TONS of smalls where I was so i guess that's good....right!??!