I personally don't believe that the striper population is as desolate as most others on these boards. It's far from a record high, but the picture is not as empty as some paint it.
Fish have fins....they move around, they change their staging locations based on many factors. They change their migration paths without notice...which of course, reflects on where they normally stage or take short or season-long residence.
We on the other hand, are more creatures of habit. We fish the same spots based on many factors...our own personal logs, network of friends, or the interblab reports.
Picture our vast coastline.....now picture yourself standing in the surf somewhere....think of your range, think of your offering, think of your timing. Place yourself and your actions in perspective to the enormous areas that these fish could be at any given time.
Could just be......they weren't where you tried that night.....or the next night, or the next night. Sometimes bad timing shadows our season. Doesn't mean you don't know what you're doing, should have zigged when you zagged...sometime it's just bad luck (or rather timing if you don't believe in luck).
Many others are reporting good numbers.
Tough to get an accurate report of an area based on an internet site. How many people slayed them this season but do not post, do not brag, do not share their numbers?
Or maybe I'm wrong....and a moratorium is in our midst???
...it finally happened, there are no more secret spots
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