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  1. It is difficult to target keeper bsb from shore with any consistency. The west end is likely your best bet but scup and striper anglers will prove to be pesky competition.
  2. I wouldn’t say white hake isn’t a target for a commercial trip. Particularly gill net boats, they will often set out on with hake as the primary target. The price is high enough and they can be found in large enough numbers to make a trip. Draggers may semi-target them as they can be a decent portion of earnings from a mixed ground fish trip.
  3. It’s weird, Ive seen lots of replicas of so many species, but none of the Black Sea bass I’ve seen are particularly good, some are terrible. Funny enough, I find a live specimen to be a very good looking fish! This one is actually not bad good compared to most I’ve seen but not great
  4. All my windowpane experience happened fishing sand eels. Caught a handful in Gloucester at the mouth of an estuary. They were also a somewhat consistent bycatch bouncing sand eels in the east end during the summer. Early-mid 2000’s.
  5. I think that’s the most liberal possession limits have been since the moratorium. When I started crawling around the riprap it was 1 @ 36”, early 90’s. Then to 32 then 30. I think around 2005 it was 2 @ 30 or 32”.
  6. A juvenile white hake I found on the interwebs
  7. Compared to the last 2 or 3 years, this year seems to be a down year for chub mackerel. They can be found but the last few years it was hard not to find them. Atlantic Mackerel can be successfully targeted in the lower bay in late fall. Around thanksgiving in my experience. They show up other times but not with the consistency of mid to late November. Last year also produced a decent late fall squid run as well
  8. I think you are right. Look more to me like juvenile white hake than red from any photos I can find in ID books or the interweb From what I remember, the insta post about these bait fish said it was hake aka ling - which would be red hake. But I do believe these are in fact little white hake. This was a few weeks ago, I believe from NY or New Jersey
  9. I saw this same question on some other social media and I think the consensus was baby red hake aka ling
  10. Was out 6am to 2pm on the yak Friday. Kept pedaling until I found funny fish. Nothing but blues until 10:30 so I covered a lot of water. BIG blow up on the second feed of the day. Thought it was going to be a monster, but was a hefty 27” fork length. Good fish but the way it hit I thought it was a 15 pounder. 1 more bite the rest of the day. Plenty of fish, some enthusiastic feeds, the bait was not crazy small but A LOT of picky fish
  11. Late to report. But I was out front Monday and took a few scenic drives by the water Sat and Sunday. Each day I saw blitzing fish. Mostly slot-ish bass with all size blues mixed in. At times they were really boiling and feeding ferociously with tails coming out and slapping the surface. They were on mostly large clouds of bay anchovies they had pinned in a cove. I’m pretty sure I saw some funny fish close to but separate from the bass/blues. Dropped a fish close that I was suspecting was a bonito but didn’t get a good enough look. Could a been a spunky 6 lb blue
  12. I don’t have a boat or a desire to buy one anytime soon. Just the yak and shore fishing. I am not going to stop, I will wallow in my shame of being an albie slut. Or maybe I’ll start lying to my self and say that I’m not a dumb googan and I fight the fish the right way and 90 % of my albies live. If the health of albies, stripers, whatever is the primary goal, I’d say stop sticking hooks in fishes faces and telling everybody you’re a steward of the ocean
  13. Although they do not go into great detail about the cone contraption, he does mention that it is similar to a “tuna tube.” This leads me to believe fresh ocean water is flowing from the bottom to the top with the fish placed face down as that is how tuna tubes work. Again this tuna tube or live well thing is similar to proper revival of a striper. Water over the gills while the fish is not exerting itself for several minutes. I believe putting the boat in gear and holding the albie with the mouth open in the water for several minutes would work too but reaching over the gunnel like that can be uncomfortable. doing something like this from shore or paddle kayak is difficult to impossible. Reviving this way on a pedal kayak is possible but much more difficult than it seems. I’ve been trying but it’s hard to keep the yak moving at a good speed in a safe direction while holding the albie in a way that it’s mouth is open, the fish is upright and my hand is not blocking the water flow into its mouth.
  14. Yes I did. I watched when salty cape first posted it several weeks ago. I rewatched half of it when I posted. I must have forgot/missed the livewell revival. But my point remains. I think use of a system that prevents the fish from exerting itself while pumping fresh seawater over its gills, the mortality would drop drastically. I’d guess that “normal” Albie catch and release has a 40-60% mortality. By normal I mean, 20 lb gear, 3 to 7 minute fight time, 15 to 75 second out of water time. But with the tuna tube/livewell revival the mortality is probably close to 10% that is typical of less sensitive species like stripers
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