year 2010 recreational catch statistics

[buckman]

I think the problem is not the number of fish but where the food has been located. There has been a growing population of Bass offshore. Lots of food out there. There are so many bass on the tuna grounds it's amazing and yet the usual places we hit in early June have sucked the last few years.

[MAKAI]

It's not what's out there now.

It's what's going to replace what's out there now.

To use a baseball analogy " The farm system is badly depleted "

It now takes 3 times the breeders to get the same YOY as it did 20 years ago

Be nice if our kids could catch bass like we do now.


Make the calls

[CowHunter]

Originally Posted by buckman

I think the problem is not the number of fish but where the food has been located. There has been a growing population of Bass offshore. Lots of food out there. There are so many bass on the tuna grounds it's amazing and yet the usual places we hit in early June have sucked the last few years.

This is true all the way down the coast to nc where those fish are out to 13 miles... Just think, even all those fish th NC Trawlers are decimating this year there has been absolutely no Surf Run. Those guys in the outerbanks havent had a surf run since the early 2000's. I remember running down there and the Bass and blues chasing pogies on the beach... Remember chunking hatteras point... Its a thing of the past, almost been a decade. The only reason we have had a surf run off NJ the last few years is there have been schools of pogies on the beach in certain conditions. You take that away like you have up the coast and thats over too. I spend all my time in the spring run 2-2.99 miles out.. If it was legal Id be out further with the fish.