Up around the Boston area, they pretty much HAVE recovered. In fact, I keep wondering when they will let us dip a few for bait.
I remember the days about 20 years ago when you could still catch 25 a day (way more than needed for striper fishing; with
some kind of floating bait bucket, 10 would have been enough for several hours). I mean, that was the peak of the striper recovery,
when you had both stripers AND plenty of bait. Now, you have much of the second and hardly any of the first. I dunno, I think we
may never see live herring as bait again; I mean if they haven't opened the runs by now, when are they ever?
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