Is it just me?

[zimmy]

Originally Posted by PaulS

I'm having the same issue. Not seeing the fish I usually see. My concern is that while the herring are here, the bunker are now around and I'm wondering if the Bass will be going by the bunker to chase the herring up river. Usually the Bass arrive to chase the herring bf the bunker get here.

The lack of rain prob. hasn't helped either.

10 years of bad young of year. Except for the 20-24" fish from the 2011 class, there just weren't many fish spawned. Any class that spawned before 2008 has been hammered repeatedly by out of control harvest.
Go to http://www.asmfc.org/uploads/file/53...review2013.pdf and look at Fig 6 (p. 21). The recreational catch reported to NMFS was 25 million fish in 2007. In 2013 it was 5 million. We can all see it in the data and we see it on the water. There are a fraction of the fish today compared to a handful of years ago.