I like fish with attitude…here’s a look at stripers on a mission

[Chris]

Mike - I remember reading that article well, as it does confirm what many of us have been saying for a long time: that the overharvesting of bunker has altered the physical characteristics of the striper in general. The lack of bunker in the Chesapeake (due to overfishing) has driven stripers to subsist more on baits like the crab, which in turn causes commercial crabbers to blame the "rebound" in stripers on the decreased numbers of crabs. Round and round we go......

Those racers are always easy to distinguish, with a very distinct looking long, lean body. Anyone remember Bassdozer's article about the school of fish that sit off the corner of Block, and could be seen staging for a tide, as the racers (scouts) went ahead to hunt. Good story....