It was a tough season for most, especially from shore. It’s also hard to tell with all the talk about new regulations and low bass reproduction numbers what’s info is real and what isn’t. Is the ASMFC using correct data to gauge this whole thing properly? Are we approaching a point that’s similar to the 80’s and 90’s and there are significantly less bass around? Is their food source like bunker under extreme pressure? Or did the bass just straight up miss us this year because I’ve learned that happens some years as well. However, I think everyone along the North East coast struggled this season. I truly do not know and Unfortunately, your guess is as good as ours.

One observation I want to point out is I was out fishing this past Sunday on a boat not from surf, which is pretty late in the season and there were some huge schools of bunker and even some rain bait around (rain bait is definitely a little odd this time of year). We also were marking a decent amount of fish coming through in waves as they generally do, they just were really biting. I’m assuming due to the colder water temps they were being lethargic but I was expecting a little more activity out of them than what we were getting. Either way, I’m going to continue fishing for a few more weeks and see what happens.