Update on sandeels....
I get intel from many trusted sources.
Some of it I can't post, and that will always be the case, as sources trust me in return.
However I wanted to update my previous comments on sandeels.
Since the hurricane I have been all over NJ and met some really great people.
One such group was fishing the Sandy Hook area about 2 weeks before Sandy. They were catching very big blues that were spitting up sandeels.
They happened to have lobster fishermen in their family, always a great source for what is out there offshore, and may be important to guys who fish inshore and in the surf. They agreed that the sandeel presence this year, was nothing of the magnitude it was last year.
Nonetheless, the sandeels were around Sandy Hook, in limited quantities, sometime in October.
I want to document that here for accuracy.
These storms probably chased them far offshore.
I am still slightly optimistic that we may see some, but cautiously optimistic.