[bulletbob]

I lived right on the bay in the early 80's... In those years I can recall landing 3 Stripers.. One from the beach at union beach, one from a 16 foot boat at night between the channels off SH, while weakfishing, and one nice one from those salt ponds on rt 36 in Keansburg,, had once a real big one snap off a big treble hook there on a salt water Rapala and get away ... There were a few bass caught during those years, and a few specialists actually did well, but were very very secretive.. Big stripers those years were caught off the rocks dead of night by rock hounds that knew exactly when what and where.. Very few went out in the bay "looking " for bass,, A few schoolies were caught as well by guys flounder fishing, but even that was rare,, Never caught one myself, and never saw one, but I knew they were there in small numbers.. As I stated earlier, we didn;t miss them as the water was loaded with other species starting in March .. We fished for what was there, when they were there, and caught a lot of fish.. These bloody deck "limited by 9am" pictures did not exist then, and no one really cared... bob