New striper regs

[nmc02]

17 minutes ago, bucky said:

Maybe its not as bad as they say, talked to my captain in Montauk the other night and he said there are an insane number of bass up there right now and has never seen nothing like it in his 35 years of fishing there

Buddy in Cape Cod says insane there too. Never seen it better in the Raritan 

[JFC1]

Interesting article on 2015 fish, measures out of MA, etc:

https://www.boston.com/news/the-boston-globe/2023/05/26/striped-bass-are-in-trouble-again-can-an-emergency-measure-save-them/

[JFC1]

On 5/24/2023 at 5:44 AM, bucky said:

Maybe its not as bad as they say, talked to my captain in Montauk the other night and he said there are an insane number of bass up there right now and has never seen nothing like it in his 35 years of fishing there

It's actually pretty good for catching slot sized fish, bit apparently that's because the last good spawning years fish are reaching slot size and the classes post-2015 out of the Chesapeake have been weak. This is supported by my fishing last year, when slot sized fish came in bushels bit schoolies seemed far between even when fishing smaller lures in places I've traditionally caught lottsa schoolies