My boat has been at dock in the marina for 18 days. We've put a lot of time in this season as the weather and fish have played nice enough to keep us going. Spent a total of 9 nights on the boat. Every trip with rods in the water except 1 have put fish on the deck. In that time somewhere around 25 or so.
We kept 5 legal fish total and everyone released was a healthy swimmer.
The are an unusually large number of very large fish. I mean many, many well over 40"
I've seen very few floaters from others and they are also catching.
Can the stripers sustain this type of fishing?
On the flip side, herring population is way down