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Last three or four mornings. Smaller fish schooled up pushing sand eels up and down the beaches. Lots this AM from Odiorne to Little Boars Head, almost everywhere I looked.

Water at around 68, falling first light tide.

Hmmmmm...............

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Reports of smaller fish is the best news I've heard this year. As far as migration goes - a while back at a CCA NH meeting there was a guest speaker who in his discussion said that studies had shown that schools of stripers will move both up and down the coast in the their search for food - my guess here is that they are following the bait....

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Read the posts on this thread and then happened to go out to a local spot. As soon as I hit the water (fishing from shore), a school of stripers started surfacing, chasing and chowing down a school of bait fish, which were about 3 or 4 inches long. Those bait fish were jumping 2 -4 " out of the water!! What a sight. Needless to say we caught fish and caught them on poppers, which is my personal favorite of the artificials. four fish each... all of them 21-26", in about 30 mins.. I haven't had that much fun in a couple of years.

 

So...is that considered migration behavior or a just a common feeding pattern which occurs all season? I've been up river fishing stripers this season and haven't been out on the coast, until yesterday.

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Schooling up and feeding in water that would normally slow them down (67-68), that is a sign. The urge to eat surpasses the urge to lay on the bottom.

It really couyld be the oddities of the bait availability these last couple years, but hey I found myself driving down Rte 1a looking out the window and not at the road, and that is definite migration behavior!

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Been seeing this all summer at one particular spot. Bait is less than three inches long. Just prior to dawn they are slapping and coming out of the water w/some occasional blues mixed in. Fun show.

 

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View PostPeanut bunker this morning.

IM JUST SAYIN, YAKNOW!!!!biggrin.gif

 

Seals busting bass busting peanuts. Pandemonium.

 

I would of liked to see that showsmile.gif

Many men fish all their lives without ever realizing that it is not the fish they are after, If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles

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