Is Something Wrong?

[NIB]

Been saying for yrs. that there is a direct corallation to the abundance of bait in Nj an the bad fishing in the cape...
There also seems to be poor amounts of other migratory baitfish like herring an Makeral.Last yrs mac run along with this springs was pretty dismal.These are the long haul migratory fish that lead the bass on their way north every spring...

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by NIB

Been saying for yrs. that there is a direct corallation to the abundance of bait in Nj an the bad fishing in the cape...
There also seems to be poor amounts of other migratory baitfish like herring an Makeral.Last yrs mac run along with this springs was pretty dismal.These are the long haul migratory fish that lead the bass on their way north every spring...

Ding, ding, ding---we have a winner

I've said for years--if you don't have herring to get the bass into the Canal in May, and dropbacks to keep them around in June, the fishing will be hit or miss until the fall.

What keeps the Canal going these days is small bait--herring fry, peanuts, maybe some sand eels at the east end, silversides in the west end. All late summer baits.

[Tagger]

Originally Posted by Mike P

I've said for years--if you don't have herring to get the bass into the Canal in May, and dropbacks to keep them around in June, the fishing will be hit or miss until the fall.

Mike ,,not sure but isn't the cycle when a herring is spawn , then later drops to the sea, its like 7 yrs. before that fish comes back to the run and spawns itself . Meaning next year the run could be good with a different yr. class herring,, but still not a healthy run over all with some really Bad (decimated)year classes . I always thought it was wack years back us getting pogeys from jersey .. Few bait shops had native ,but most were jersey pogeys .. No sense in going up on size limit of bass when we can't feed them,,, like last time ..