I am on board with John R, he seems to be on target. There are fewer and fewer forage fish for stripers to eat these days, whether it is eels, herring, pogies, or the myriads of spearing, sand eels and everything else that we have taken for granted all these years.
The bait stocks are down, bring them back and we will see stripers come back stronger than ever. There really is not an easy solution to this problem ... maybe except to use more wood, rubber and tin?
