What was striped bass fishing like?

[surferman]

Glory days of 1992 to 1998

You only have to go back 15-20 years to see what fishing used to be. By Bob Popovics

[captnemo]

Outstanding action, thanks for posting.

[baitstealer]

Wow, thank you.

[basshunter]

Excellent video surferman thanks for posting.

[clamchucker]

Glory days of 1992 to 1998

You only have to go back 15-20 years to see what fishing used to be. By Bob Popovics

I was looking at my logs and remembered this thread. The striped bass recovered quickly once they were protected. By 1989-90 the stripers were not only back to normal levels,but the fishing was outstanding. There were scores of places you could choose from to catch them from shore. There were daytime blitzes in the spring as well as the fall.

When the bass moved up the coast after the spring spawn, you had a few weeks of fantastic fishing. The bunker bill helped that as well. However it was more than that. There were vast schools of herring, bunker, spearing, and rainfish that were all along the coast. The bass and moved in sync with these schools of forage fish.

You could pick and choose where you wanted to fish. You could go in the morning and catch. Then run some errands or work during the day. When you went back for the end of the day bite you could still find vast schools of bait moving up or down the beach, and plenty of stripers and bluefish following them. Just like that video above, but on a daily basis for weeks at a time.

[surferman]

Awesome read than you gentlemen.