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Lov2Fish
12-07-2006, 05:01 PM
Weather was perfect for Thursday AM, so me and a friend skipped work! --127-3- Light winds and clear 50 degree sky, made for an excellent day of jigging NY Harbor schoolies. We landed and carefully realeased 206 yes TWO HUNDRED SIX schoolies in 6 hours!! (#$119) And dropped many many more to boot. All fish were in excellent condition, no sores or any signs of striper disease. 3 of the fish had belly tags, 2 yellow HRF ones and 1 pink Maryland fish and game tag. I tagged 6 myself. Once again, I take, what I can get,and enjoy making the best of it, these are small stripers ranging from 12 inches to 22 inches most were around the 19 - 18 inch mark, but using light spinning and baitcasting it was a blast. Some of you "fly" guys look down on this, but this is what works, this time of year! Here's a couple pics from today. Nothing exciting, just sharing the day!
rockfisherman
12-07-2006, 06:39 PM
All fish were in excellent condition, no sores or any signs of striper disease.
Congrats on a fantastic day! Spin or fly, no matter, that's great.

You didn't see any fish with Mycobacteriosis? I would have guessed you would have seen some with those numbers. Is this confined to the Chesapeake stocks and not the Hudson River fish??? :confused:
Lov2Fish
12-07-2006, 06:49 PM
[QUOTE=rockfisherman]Congrats on a fantastic day! Spin or fly, no matter, that's great.

You didn't see any fish with Mycobacteriosis? I would have guessed you would have seen some with those numbers. Is this confined to the Chesapeake stocks and not the Hudson River fish??? :confused:[/QUOT


I knew the word Mycobacteriosis, but wasn't even gonna take a try at spelling it! :) I looked for it on all my fish and glanced at my friends all day and didn't notice a single fish with it, but I have seen it quite often in NY Harbor areas!!
ShaneY
12-08-2006, 07:20 PM
Does anyone know whether they can beat the disease or does it stay with them tilll they die? I know that many think it is a nutritional deficiency that allows it to infect them but can they fight it during their migrations with all the forage accessibility? I personally found a couple fish with it this spring in cape cod on one of every 12 fish or so. Any info would be appreciated.
Shane