hey b, you called it. not saying they are here in force, but the scouts have arrived.

Where are you located ?

Northern gulf coast, bout 1100 miles south of you.

I plan to be ready to fish by mid April........
1. Raritan Bay stripers
2. Ocean bunker stripers
3. Gator blues
4. Fluke, fluke and more fluke
5. Seabass, ling, tog, maybe a cod, whatever
6. Back to stripers

That's my typical season.

You forgot to add Steelhead Trout and Salmon from Lake Ontario. Nothing better than Salmon and Steelhead steaks on the grill.

Hey Destroyer, you forgot Black Fish!!!!

Lol You're right, I didn't mention them and neither did Bgreene. My bad. Truthfully though, I very, very rarely fish for them, so it was easy to forget them. Somehow I just never developed a taste for them.

I also didn't mention Weakfish, which are scarce now but if a legal one hits my lines while fishing for something else he's not going anywhere except in the fishbox. And don't even get me started on Whiting (Frostfish) that once were in such abundant numbers off our coast until the Draggers obliterated them. I still want to know why NOAA doesn't clamp down on the draggers .. they are killing the species .. :sad: :cry:

I had read the weak fish population destroyed by the commercial fleet that hits them during winter off the Carolina's. I read that the boats dump huge nets of weakies, headed to become soft wet canned cat food. Report was that they school up and become easy target for the nets.