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Originally Posted by tautog
Won't be very many at Sandy Hook Reef and Scotland until September. The main body of fish don't go down the beach very early anymore. They stay jammed up around the Bay and Coney Island until the temps start to drop.
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agreed.. I could NEVER figure out why, but the the Sheepshead Bay head boats for years would be slamming big porgies, while right across the bay, the NJ boats simply didn't see them in big numbers, even with the great habitat we have.. Perhaps the rocky bottom doesn't have the preferred food for big schools of porgies... Several times over the I have been on party boats catching porgies on smooth bottom, in the Ambrose area.. The captain would make a move south to some rocky bottom, or a wreck to try and find some sea bass, and that was the end of the big porgies.. Any porgies caught were smaller, and in much smaller numbers.. It seems that big schools of BIG porgies, don't seem to favor areas that Tog and sea bass seem to like...Yes porgies tog and sea bass ARE often caught together, but when I have caught good numbers of big porgies, it was ALL porgies.. YMMV.... bob
