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Old 10-29-2013, 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by bulletbob
Look, I am not one to piss in anyone's cheerios, however, I must disagree.. In all my life, I have never seen anything like the huge masses of bunker in Sandy Hook and raritan bays past couple years.. i mean miles of them, schools as far as the eye could see, this year and last.. Perhaps I am just seeing whats in the bays, and there may be more of a population problem than I am aware of, but man, the bunkers I have seen past several years has been unlike anything I can remember. and I have been fishing NJ waters for 50 years on and off...
Most of the bunker this year were not ''spawners''.We are missing a year class.Although there were bunker schools around it is nothing like what it supposed to be.In the past Raritan Bay was loaded with mature bunker all fall.This is not the case anymore.No mature bunker no peanut bunker no bunker to mature and spawn.If you saw the quantity of bunker we had 40 and 50 years ago you would be amazed!
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