Why?

[davisd]

Larry, Was wondering is it the same in the spring when they are coming back do we hear the same I don't think so.

[Tagger]

Larry .. little off topic, but give you a rough idea how much these fish move around . I tagged a fish mid summer in Hull ..It was caught 4 days later in Wollaston Beach straight as the crow flys 11 miles away .. I dought it did a B line right to Wollaston .. I was bumming the fish was recovered in only 4 days, but amazed how much a fish moved during a non migrating period . These guys can travel ..I soon learned that less than 1% of tagged fish are ever recovered and stopped putting through the trauma for lesss than 1% recovered . I do know there are fish holding stations where they just hang out .. Same places every year .. I also notice fish getting scarcer in number ,size and catching window from North working its way south during our season .. some holes dry all together ..

[BigFish]

There you go Ed...my point exactly....thats your theory/feeling and ten other guys have a different one.

Ask Redlight and he will tell you the fish are getting bigger and more of them.....seeing my point yet?

[Tagger]

Originally Posted by BigFish

There you go Ed...my point exactly....thats your theory/feeling and ten other guys have a different one.

Ask Redlight and he will tell you the fish are getting bigger and more of them.....seeing my point yet?

Only thing that threw me was those large fish caught on the North Shore last year.. I hear PI fishers complaing of size and numbers this year . Not to mention names but you did ,, Mikes fishing mecca hard, swimming ,,and using Satan's bait . All I know for certain is after a few years of the size limit being 36" I could go local in the daytime and chunk one up almost anytime I wanted for the table .. now my family would starve . maybe its just cylindrical .. a big circle.. When I first started seriously saltwater fishing the fishing was really bad .. pre moratorium ... gotta wait until all the holes dry up before there's a consensus..