Live Pogie Fishing - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Rockport24 · 07-09-2008, 03:40 PM

cheating? don't say that to #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&! just kidding!
you boat guys have all the fun.....

fishaholic18 · 07-10-2008, 05:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Rockport24

cheating? don't say that to #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&! just kidding!
you boat guys have all the fun.....

Cut the tail off so the pogie can't out run the bass...Now thats cheating...

Nebe · 07-10-2008, 07:33 AM

My biggest beef with it is that some guys dont go through the effort to transfer the pogie from the snag hook to a large circle hook or some other 'friendly' hook that inst going to disembowel the bass when it swallows the bait.. At that point its no better than yo-yoing..

JohnR · 07-10-2008, 02:09 PM

Back to our regular scheduled programming. Keep it civil please. Zero flames. Thank you

Nebe · 07-10-2008, 02:16 PM

So if we can all take a view into the crystal ball and see what the bass stocks are like in say 10 years if the menhaden cycle stays like it has the past 2 years, where do all of you see the bass stocks??

This is the way I see it- JohnR, I hope you own the rights to www.blue-fish.com

zacs · 07-10-2008, 02:27 PM

i don't get it.....

first the problem is that we don't have enough bait.... fishery is in trouble....

now we have too much bait and the fishery is in trouble.?..?.

JFigliuolo · 07-10-2008, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Nebe

So if we can all take a view into the crystal ball and see what the bass stocks are like in say 10 years if the menhaden cycle stays like it has the past 2 years, where do all of you see the bass stocks??

This is the way I see it- JohnR, I hope you own the rights to www.blue-fish.com

Just my uninformed opinion... right now, the bunker are in the worst possible position. There are enough of them so the bass are feeding on them and geting fat and healthy. BUT, the schools of bunker are not vast enough to spread out and spread the bass out. Therefore, they make it as easy as shooting fish in a barrel to kill ALLOT of big bass. For the basses sake, more (or less) bunker is in their long term interest. Due only to man's greed and foolishness.

RIJIMMY · 07-10-2008, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by JFigliuolo

Just my uninformed opinion... right now, the bunker are in the worst possible position. There are enough of them so the bass are feeding on them and geting fat and healthy. BUT, the schools of bunker are not vast enough to spread out and spread the bass out. Therefore, they make it as easy as shooting fish in a barrel to kill ALLOT of big bass. For the basses sake, more (or less) bunker is in their long term interest. Due only to man's greed and foolishness.

I think the situation is exaggerated. For a few weeks, people were getting a lot of bass in the 20s in one very, very small area, in a very, very small state. Is that really an indication of the entire bass population? This year it was Providence, last year it was somewhere else, the year before somewhere else. JF - the bass populations IS spread out. I have been doing very well this year and fishing NOWHERE near the bunker schools. I get bait and go a few miles away to fish, no bunker around at all except in my livewell.
People used to slay bass on Herring in the canal for years, did that cause a major issue in the fishery?

I truly dont know, but I think opinions are being formed on a small sampling of a large population and geographic area.

piemma · 07-11-2008, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by JFigliuolo

Just my uninformed opinion... right now, the bunker are in the worst possible position. There are enough of them so the bass are feeding on them and geting fat and healthy. BUT, the schools of bunker are not vast enough to spread out and spread the bass out. Therefore, they make it as easy as shooting fish in a barrel to kill ALLOT of big bass. For the basses sake, more (or less) bunker is in their long term interest. Due only to man's greed and foolishness.

JF:
I agree with you that it was that way a month ago. It's no longer easy to find bass. The water is over 70 degrees in the Bay and the bass have headed for deep water. You can still get good fish but it's no longer a sure thing.
I am glad the bass spread out. I was fed up with them jamokes snagging and dropping. Now you need to get your pogies and then figure out when the big girls are hiding.
....and another thing. I am sick and tired of hearing all this whining about live lining is cheating. If it is (and IT ISN'T) then live eels are cheating and chunking mackeral is cheating and Tube and worm is cheating and clam bellies are cheating. Come on give it a break. It's all fishing. If you don't like it, don't do it.

vanstaal · 07-10-2008, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Nebe

So if we can all take a view into the crystal ball and see what the bass stocks are like in say 10 years if the menhaden cycle stays like it has the past 2 years, where do all of you see the bass stocks??

This is the way I see it- JohnR, I hope you own the rights to www.blue-fish.com

the way I see it we should be able to take a number of small ones and leave the large one there to lay more eggs!
from the shore is the only way to go with artificial's now I consider that
fishing in the true sense of the word.
now don't you all go crazy on me thats the way I see it ! my .02

likwid · 07-10-2008, 02:31 PM

slot slot slot slot slot slot slot

Rockport24 · 07-10-2008, 02:54 PM

I think the big bass slaying is only going on in certain spots and pretty much only a boat game. From what I've read about the years leading up to the moratorium, a lot more people were into big bass from shore and boat. Plus, there were less comm regulations and such too right? And wasn't a keeper 16 inches for like a lot of years before that too?
I just find it hard to believe we are headed down the same path as those days.