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10-18-2009, 09:55 PM
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Hardcore Equipment Tester
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WFN
Anyone catch the Canadian fishing show this past week where they are fishing in New Brunswick in October/November and catching monster stripers way up in the St. Johns river. It was cool, and probably helps to prove there is a spawning population up there.
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Bent Rods and Screaming Reels!
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10-19-2009, 03:20 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
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Where was it? Cable channel?
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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10-19-2009, 04:21 AM
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as it gets warmer that will increase their range and things will go longer for Maniacs
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10-19-2009, 10:17 AM
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Ain't evolution a gas?
As the fish expand their horizons, they will gradually adapt to the cooler water. It may result in an expanded range for the fish, and an expanded season for us. The drawback might be a slower growth rate, but I can't say for sure since I'm not a biologist.
(I'm just using existing knowledge compiled from studies of freshwater bass comparing north vs. south growth rates.)
I do know they have found spawning bass in the Mystic River, so it is possible.
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10-19-2009, 01:29 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FishermanTim
I do know they have found spawning bass in the Mystic River, so it is possible.
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Where did you read that? |
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10-19-2009, 01:55 PM
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It was "reported" last year that a survey done in the Mystic River to gauge the water quality found young striped bass as part of the sample population.
Juvenile stripers don't migrate until they reach a certain age/size limit.
The fish that were caught in the Mystic River were very small, too small to have migrated from southern waters.
The river runs down from the Lower Mystic Lake, where there had been reports of stripers being taken from the ice, so there is the possibility that the bass may have been holding over and spawning there. I wish I had documented proof, but unfortunately most of what I have heard was via this website, so it must be taken with a grain of salt.
There was a story in On the Water magazine about the author catching a striper there on Thanksgiving, so I may be correct to some degree.
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10-20-2009, 11:47 AM
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based on what i've read, there were spawning populations in many of the rivers in the NE before the industrial revolution (dams, pollution, etc.)
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"Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker" - Van Helsing
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10-20-2009, 12:20 PM
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President - S-B Chapter - Kelly Clarkson Fan Club
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wasn't there OTW story hypothosizing that fish that actually spawn in the mystic and other rivers around here are migrating up north?
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