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  1. recently heard something about a pro saying that when he first started using it, he could catch 9 out of 10 bass he saw. Now, hes lucky to catch 1 in 10 bass he sees. Competitive Bass fishing is wicked lame for a lot of reasons. Another statistic I heard is theres only room for .04% (or some very small percentage) of the Bass community to actually make enough money to do it professionally as a career, between sponsorship and tournament winnings, you pretty much have to have other income in order to afford to do it. Id be way more inclined to watch competitive fishing if it was a multispecies format, catch the bass, then catch some esox, big cats, trout, whatever else... score based on top 3 of each species, now that is fun to watch, far more challenging, and would really prove whos got both knowledge and skill. As for Striper fishing, considering there arent any real tournaments, I would say live and let live... if someone wants to use it, who cares, as long as they are using it responsibly.
  2. when you are watching a vid on youtube and you see a vid from a channel you dont like listed on the right, just move your mouse over that video, click on the 3 little dots that appear on the right side, scroll down to "dont recommend channel". viola.
  3. Also considering CnR mortality kills more bass than commercial and rec harvest combined, when do we force education on proper fish handling on all anglers? When you buy the license, you have to pass a 10 question test regarding handling and survival. It would be really f'n easy. Some places like in Italy you have to take a one week class and pass, showing they actually care about their fisheries. Would this make a huge difference, probably not, but it would be a good start.
  4. Hudson chart doesnt show much of a downward trend... good years and bad year. One bad year is not concerning. Md chart, concerning... generally agreed that river flows suck when spawning time comes around, look at flows at a huge year class like 2011 vs flows in 2023. Im optimistic we get a good return this year as the bay is showing a big run of fish and the rivers have pretty much been flooded for a week, we just need it to keep raining through April. De river and VA data should be included, seen here. Dont forget the chart with 5 bad years in a row is Maryland only, and the Bass do also spawn in VA portion- VIRGINIA https://www.vims.edu/newsandevents/topstories/2023/sbss_2023.php NJ Delaware River - https://dep.nj.gov/njfw/fishing/marine/delaware-river-striped-bass-recruitment-seine-survey/ So Why is VA doing pretty well and MD is lacking? Also remember commercial size in MD is 18"-36" so some of those recent poor year classes are being taken commercially at this point. Meanwhile, the breeders are being scooped up as we speak in VA. If theres a meeting to go to, it is marylands, to bring up this point if nothing else. NJ seems to do a better job at surverying as they do twice as many seine hauls while they only have some 60 miles of shoreline vs maryland who has some 5k-7k+? miles of shoreline. To me it seems like between 22 sites in maryland leaves the vast majority of the water at large, and could easily be masses of fish they arent finding. But, its the best data we have, so we take it as it is. It would be really f'n easy to go seine a shoreline and see how your results compare to marylands. No chart for the DE River, you have to click on each year individually and read the report, which Ill save you the time and show you these are the numbers. No average is given that I saw, so dont know exactly how good the highs are or how bad the lows are, but these are the numbers for YOY
  5. OP you saw the **maryland chart, remember that chart is not for the whole chesapeake. Va doesnt have a chart but it does list their numbers which shows about average or above average for 9 of the last 10 years, 2023 being the bad year. Why VA sees better returns than maryland is up for debate. Curious the opinions from the experts here. Im with all of you, I want to see continued good fishing in the future, I am praying we get a big spawn this year, and as it is currently we have a lot of water in the rivers and lots of fish full of eggs in the Chesapeake, so Im optimistic we see a good spawn in MD. If we keep getting the rain we should see a good spawn and then we can all relax a little bit, but remember it doesnt matter how many fish we have in the water if the water doesnt support the fish. Farming, development, algea blooms, No food for the bass (debatable), tons of toxic waste accumulated at the head of the bay, blue catfish, theres a long list of things working against the Maryland bass. Not to mention the commercial size limit of 18-36" which sure as **** not helping the 2016s, 2019s and 2020s reach their breeding potential. This Hudson chart though.. 1 bad year class doesnt mean much. Plenty of good years.
  6. to say 7 out of 10 might have been a stretch, lets say its 5 out of 10 are at or above average. Theres going to be highs and lows which form the average over time so to have below average years is, on average, going to happen about half the time. I really dont think this is an issue here. Chesapeake is the real issue.
  7. Close to average or above average for 7 of the last 10 years. If anything that shows encouragement from the prior decade when 7 of the 10 years were below average. Too bad the Chesapeake chart doesnt look like this.
  8. i set the drag tight for the hookset and loosen it as it gets closer if its a definitely huge fish... to each their own
  9. cod are taken on RI shorelines. I would assume you could get them off the rocks in gloucester/rockport and elsewhere theres deep water tight to shore.
  10. dont froget the warmer the water the more likely it is to see red tide and algea blooms. I remember seeing one a few years back in Narragansett around late summer. Big swatch of dark red water. Fish could still be caught but it was unsettling to see for about 2 weeks. one of the last couple falls we saw an invasion of juvi senetts late like oct/nov which seemed unusual. Tons of them around pt judith and elsewhere, dont think they lasted long after that. Hopfeully we see more king macks this season. One here or there most years, it would be awesome to catch one. Til then though I wouldnt predict anything as the weather conditions and fish are always throwing curveballs. I just hope its good. The usual jacks, small mahis, spanish that come in late summer well maybe there will be a few more this year. Pompano... ladyfish... tarpon. red drum. cobia. maybe in 30 years.
  11. From my personal experience of working deck, when the fare tries to keep a short or out of season fish, we tell them no you cant keep that. If it ends up in their cooler anyway, we take the fish out and throw it back. Very simple. Customers try to keep shorts fairly regularly, happens a few times a month give or take. To say the boat doesnt have the authority to throw back a customers short fish is news to me. Ive seen mates on other party boats throw back a customers whole catch, legal and illegal size, for continuing to keep shorts after being warned. If the crew couldnt enforce it I would think these boats would be full of poachers. Go on the frances fleet when the limit is 2 seabass, the mates will take your 3rd and 4th and so on keepers and distribute them to the rest of the boat until boat limit is attained.
  12. Ive seen plenty of undersized cod released that floated off into the horizon, I dont know any release mortality stats here Im just going off what Ive seen. This would be summer/fall inshore RI waters like 50-90' just party boat fishing. A cod that is promptly released swims off no issues but one thats been measured and dropped on the ground usually floats
  13. comparing RI to NJ.. we have 5 turbines, NJ is destined for 3400....
  14. any such thing as a shad run around here, in the pawtuxet mainly? I could see a run of hickory shad as they seemingly show up all over, but do american shad make much of a showing in this state?
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