Migration started?????

[piemma]

I have read that Bass a phototropic. Not sure of the spelling but I understand that they react more to the amount of daylight to trigger their migration than anything else.

[NIB]

Here's 2 exeamples of extreme situations where bass should not have been here but the bait held them.around 1999 we had em well into february.with water temps around 39 degrees.sand eels where the culprit.I left em i just had to stop...
This summer with water temps around 75 degrees some of the best fish where taken mostly from boats as the bass stayed wit the big schools of bunker.That was mid july..
NJ is for the most part a Migratory state or fishing depends on the migratory baits.From one bait to the next I can tell u what season it is squid,makeral herring shad bunker.crabs.Tinker macks Mullet Peanuts shad sea herring sand eels.Any one of these baits will hold fish in good numbers.The Hudson river flushes out into our Raritan Bay It usually starts our springs on the warmin mud flats of the bay.This yr was off.Don't know why but the fishin did not really pick up till the cheesapeake fish showed up on the tail of the huge bunker schools.Those fish stayed with us till mid july made a pit stop in Montauk for a few weeks an the moved on up the line to the Montauk-Block-Watch Hill triangle.I told Nebe they where comin within a week he got his fish.They are just now startin to get some fish in the canal.Where fishin has been dismal.They be there soon.who knows how long.for the most part though That triangle has been the place to be the last few yrs.I think it has to do with the reduction bait boats being kept out of NJ.there is a direct corallation between the dismal cape fishery an the tremendous NJ spring runs..They're hangin wit the bait.an not travelin as far as they used to.XCourse other things like seals will keep em off the shore's but u cannot discount my theroy.

[Nebe]

NIB, you did tell me they were coming

[Saltheart]

We always called this period the 'staging" time. the bass are staging for the migration. They aren't migrating yet but they are preparing to migrate.

[spinncognito]

mega-blitz up here on the N. Shore early this evening. Normally do not see it til late September. Tons of tiny peanut bunker being forced into suicide. Bass/Blue mix.

spinn

[Nebe]

Well that was it.. the migration has ended.

[bart]

there were an insane amount of people out last night, drove by one spot and kept right on going. must;ve been at least 10 trucks there, a bunch with S-B stickers...