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Originally Posted by jigman90
the scarey point of the last couple of nights is no smallies even busting on the shad! dont know if there is so many shad that the smallies arent chasing them or our smallie population is just down that bad! the fishing has gotten so bad this year and the smallie #;s have decreased very bad in our strech of the river since a high in 2004
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The Columnaris Virus took a bite chunk out of the Smallmouth Bass population.
Here's a newspaper article about it if you want to read about it:
http://www.nj.com/times-sports/index...e_smallmo.html
I think the people saying that there isn't a problem with the Smallmouth population just don't remember how good it used to be on the river.
I used to fish the section up by the Delaware Water Gap every weekend, but don't much anymore because of the drop in the population of Smallmouth Bass over 8 or 9 inches.
I fished the area of the Delaware around Poxono boat launch Saturday. Again, all small bass. The only big Smallmouth Bass I saw all day was at the end of a stringer. Some Russian guys fishing from an inflatable Sea Eagle raft-type thing with a outboard motor were taking a relatively big one home along with EVERY other fish they caught that day.
