No Bass Left

[Jimmy Fee]

Originally Posted by Mike P

When low to mid 30# fish started winning the shore division, the writing should have been on the wall. This is locking the barn door after the horses got out.

Judging by the first 5 or so years they added bass back into the Derby, the 90s must have been a pretty awesome time to surf fish over there.

[OLD GOAT]

At eighty two I've seen some great bass fishen.
Ive seen every one add there two cents to try and fix bass fishen
No one seems to mention seals. There are 30,000 seals eating every day.30,000 seals catching and eating more than one fish since they love the livers.
The embayment's have been wiped out of every type of feed that seals feed on.
Just think,If we thin out the seals then everything can live.
This is not conservation with all these seals.

[Rappin Mikey]

Originally Posted by OLD GOAT

At eighty two I've seen some great bass fishen.
Ive seen every one add there two cents to try and fix bass fishen
No one seems to mention seals. There are 30,000 seals eating every day.30,000 seals catching and eating more than one fish since they love the livers.
The embayment's have been wiped out of every type of feed that seals feed on.
Just think,If we thin out the seals then everything can live.
This is not conservation with all these seals.

Exactly. Think about all of the species you would get throwing out sand eels in the middle of the day off of Race Point. I remember when the skates and dog fish moved in you couldn’t even dunk bait. We would get flat fish too. All sorts of sculpin. Stripers and or blues every morning at the hump without a doubt. Other then bass coming in at night, you don’t see any of this anymore. Either those fish adapted to stay off shore, and or the seals wiped out the class of fish that had it in their gene pool to feed in close to shore. Probably a combination of both IMHO.
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[RickBomba]

Originally Posted by Rappin Mikey

Exactly. Think about all of the species you would get throwing out sand eels in the middle of the day off of Race Point. I remember when the skates and dog fish moved in you couldn’t even dunk bait. We would get flat fish too. All sorts of sculpin. Stripers and or blues every morning at the hump without a doubt. Other then bass coming in at night, you don’t see any of this anymore. Either those fish adapted to stay off shore, and or the seals wiped out the class of fish that had it in their gene pool to feed in close to shore. Probably a combination of both IMHO.
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I catch sculpin like crazy, dude.

Most people are scared trying to unhook them.

Pansy Bastards!
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[Rappin Mikey]

[QUOTE=RickBomba;1198340]I catch sculpin like crazy, dude.

Most people are scared trying to unhook them.

Pansy Bastards!
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I’m talking outer Cape and from the shore. Everybody knows boat sculpin don’t count bro
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[RickBomba]

[QUOTE=Rappin Mikey;1198344]

Originally Posted by RickBomba

I catch sculpin like crazy, dude.

Most people are scared trying to unhook them.

Pansy Bastards!
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I’m talking outer Cape and from the shore. Everybody knows boat sculpin don’t count bro
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Boat sculpin only don’t count if you’re too much of a Sally to unhook them.

Lotsa Sally’s out there...or Karens that helped them get out on the water, too.

Wish we had a mom that would have made it OK in our lives not to work and dream for boating.

Rich
White
Boys
I
Mean
Their
Girls
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[Guppy]

[QUOTE=RickBomba;1198345]

Originally Posted by Rappin Mikey

Boat sculpin only don’t count if you’re too much of a Sally to unhook them.

Lotsa Sally’s out there...or Karens that helped them get out on the water, too.

Wish we had a mom that would have made it OK in our lives not to work and dream for boating.

Rich
White
Boys
I
Mean
Their
Girls
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Go to bed

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by OLD GOAT

At eighty two I've seen some great bass fishen.
Ive seen every one add there two cents to try and fix bass fishen
No one seems to mention seals. There are 30,000 seals eating every day.30,000 seals catching and eating more than one fish since they love the livers.
The embayment's have been wiped out of every type of feed that seals feed on.
Just think,If we thin out the seals then everything can live.
This is not conservation with all these seals.

There was a time in the 1990s when there was an entire population of resident fish from South Jersey to Maine, and even into the Maritimes. Hudson fish and Chesapeake below the Cape. They're gone, too. Those were the mainstays in Rhody. Human greed killed more bass than seals ever could. But they contributed as well.

[Fish On]

30,000 seals?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/af...ls/ar-BB17Id5Q

"Skomal said the estimated 250,000 seals now swimming in the Northeastern U.S. are a 25-fold increase from a low in the 1980s, when seal populations were estimated at just 10,000 animals."

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Fee

Judging by the first 5 or so years they added bass back into the Derby, the 90s must have been a pretty awesome time to surf fish over there.

First year was for plaques only, no cash prizes, and they weren't eligible for the Grand. It was 50s across the board 1st to 4th.

Even after they became eligible for the Grand, there were no daily or weekly prizes. I caught a lot of high 30s/low 40s that I released because there was no point to weighing them in.