Rhode Islanders are blind to let the pogie boats come in and net the bait from our waters.Thats why fishing is slow,that's the answer to all the problems.The schools get netted and taken,when the bait go's away the fish that eat the bait find elsewhere to eat.Sad day when the Ocean state doesn't want to improve ocean fishing.Makes me sick day after day.I feel for the guys on the cape with the nasty seals but you can bet I'd be hunting them in the cloak of night .1 less seal is a better chance for keeping a fish or being able to cast a once good beach.Good video with seal ----->
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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...
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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.
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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 ..
At least on the Capes beaches I don't think it is a matter of bait being pushed off shore. It the years when I was lucky enough to have had better fishing then I could have dreamed there was not a lot of bait along the beaches. At least not more or less then now.
The fish that I cleaned would sometimes have a few sand eels inside. Sometimes a squid. Some herring, small macks but it was not like the fish were stuffed, feeding like crazy. I would have nights where you would be catching large fish every cast but when you cleaned the fish they were empty. Every article you read said the fish were starving.
I came to the conclusion that the fish would be 0.50-2 miles out during the day and move inshore for safety at night. It took the fish a couple of years to figure it out but with the seals it was not safe inshore anymore. Unfortunately it is not going to change.
Some of you guys keep talking about no bait...true where you are, but where I am fishing the bait is thick.
I mentioned this 2 weeks ago. I was fishing in Wells Maine. The bait was so thick, it looked as though you were looking at pavement.
It lasted for hours. The waterfowl were having a feast!
2 small stripers!
2 cut lines due to Blues and then NOTHING...and I mean nothing.
6 hours on that bridge.
I would love to know where the Bass are.
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