Weakfish, bass- I've seen this before, its happening again

[SharkHart]

In the mid 2000 me and friends seen our tiderunner weakfish kept getting biggger and bigger, the old 8 bench mark went to 10 for a new york minute before going to 12, Personal bests were broken. then the collapse. Now the key here is you did have to make a 1000 casts to get the trophy also.

Big fish ....great right??? or is it?

We were fishing super spots where the sole survivors had retreated to, there were no mid size fish to grab the lures and provide some sort of shelter. Any Fish first line of defense is be in a thick school or be picked off! A decent catch of a few mid size fish might have sent you home early happy right? The ones of us crazy enough would lock down and not accept defeat 3 hr trips were now 7 or 8 trips. Everything was a concentrate.

So this post is actually about bass, flashback to 2008, "whoa that bass is over 25lbs" A 30lb now is the old 20, Well they are getting bigger but it's the 20s benchmark that survived since 2008. again they are being caught on special water with structure, just not seeing any open water blitzes, however they have been in water they should have left 2 weeks ago so there is a small shot. Either the pattern is repeating or the guys I been fishing around are some lucky bastards. If anyone sees John from Berkeley thank him for reversing the Tournament to C&R, watching some of those fish go back first hand is really witnessing change.