Now that all the excitement is over (in the Hudson), it would be a good time to try and get a handle on our Herring runs and their importance to Stripers.
I've talked with Cathy Hatala, Hudson River Estruary, (gotta love her) over at the DEC in New Paltz and gotten some good info on the sate of the estruary and even with all the wealth of info at her fingertips when I ask her about the herring runs she gives me a basically brush off answer that its us fisherman or the commercial fisherman that are depleting the stocks, I don't get any hard figures out of her, now I can understand her playing her cards close to the table, but you gotta guess she knows nore than she's telling. Yea maybe some of the runs are being depleted, but maybe not all of them.
I know that some New England States (how bad is it?) have banned Herring fishing but whats going on south of us in the Delaware, Chesapeake, Pamlico?
Herring (for those that don't know) are like salmon they go back to their natal streams to spawn, so it seems that if the majority of the run is interdicted in some way, we all loose out.
All of us who fish for Stripers have information some personal some hear say but if we throw all we know into the pot we should come up with some usable information.
If we can pick each other's brains on what we know we'll all be better fishermen/women.
From the reports and other postings I recall that Black Creek in Ulster county which always had a good run was lacking this year, but up in Troy they were plentiful. The Rondout had some herring and shad show up but were they there in any numbers? I know Moodna Creek in Orange County usually has a good run, but did anyome hear if it did this year?
I'm sure any big enough small trib upstream of the salt front and maybe even some below have runs.
This would be a good place to post all we know.
I've talked with Cathy Hatala, Hudson River Estruary, (gotta love her) over at the DEC in New Paltz and gotten some good info on the sate of the estruary and even with all the wealth of info at her fingertips when I ask her about the herring runs she gives me a basically brush off answer that its us fisherman or the commercial fisherman that are depleting the stocks, I don't get any hard figures out of her, now I can understand her playing her cards close to the table, but you gotta guess she knows nore than she's telling. Yea maybe some of the runs are being depleted, but maybe not all of them.
I know that some New England States (how bad is it?) have banned Herring fishing but whats going on south of us in the Delaware, Chesapeake, Pamlico?
Herring (for those that don't know) are like salmon they go back to their natal streams to spawn, so it seems that if the majority of the run is interdicted in some way, we all loose out.
All of us who fish for Stripers have information some personal some hear say but if we throw all we know into the pot we should come up with some usable information.
If we can pick each other's brains on what we know we'll all be better fishermen/women.
From the reports and other postings I recall that Black Creek in Ulster county which always had a good run was lacking this year, but up in Troy they were plentiful. The Rondout had some herring and shad show up but were they there in any numbers? I know Moodna Creek in Orange County usually has a good run, but did anyome hear if it did this year?
I'm sure any big enough small trib upstream of the salt front and maybe even some below have runs.
This would be a good place to post all we know.