What's the cause of the Bloofish decline?...does that fall on the recreationlal sector too or is it really all Clammer's fault?
The lack of inshore blitzing over the last 10 years or so is increasingly getting worse. The number of individual schools are fewer, the size of the blitzing school itself is so much smaller...the fish numbers just aren't there. That always helped drive my own-personal science-perspective....the times of year when you should expect to see masses of migrating fish spring&fall, but the schools are smaller and fewer. These fish haven't been skipping the inshore route all these years, they just don't exist... I think people have just grown accustomed to it or forgot how insane it used to be in the fall. Sure there are still some good blitzes every now and then, but they dont' hold a candle to the blitzes of years ago.