No Peanuts????

[nightfighter]

Originally Posted by Clogston29

seeing that the population of adult bunker is on the rise here, i would suspect that the lack of peanuts could be based on conditions in the spring (heavy rains, strong currents, heavy winds, you name it). maybe they just choose not to spawn up here some years based on a set of conditions no being met. or they spawn, but conditions are not optimal for their survival and only small numbers survive.

since the majority of spawning occures down south in the winter, i would not think that fluctuations in when and where the more minor spawning events happen would have little effect on future populations, unless something needs to be considered based on regional survival rates that i don't know enough about to comment on (ex. maybe the fish born off the carolina are more susceptable to seining?)

Makes me wonder if somehow connected to the high numbers of stripers I saw, or heard of, that had not spawned this year...