Just out of curiousity...especially those of you fishing the Merrimack River and surrounding area....has your ratio dropped drastically during the passed couple of years? It seems that about 5 years ago a good ratio was one legal for every 30 to 40 stripers...now it's much, much larger for me anyways. I'm approaching a ratio of 1 out of 600!!?? And I have managed more than one legal fish...all have been released, I might add.