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#1630840 - 04/28/15 09:54 PM Winter hold over Stripers
Clabman Member Registered: 01/06/08 Posts: 81	Do we know where all these hold over Stripers go to when they leave the Housitonic River?
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#1630842 - 04/28/15 11:13 PM Re: Winter hold over Stripers [Re: Clabman]
junkie Member Registered: 04/24/09 Posts: 667 Loc: Bridgeport Ct	No where. They're year round residents
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#1630843 - 04/28/15 11:35 PM Re: Winter hold over Stripers [Re: Clabman]
Murph Member Registered: 07/16/05 Posts: 3171 Loc: CT. Got a problem with that?	I thought they went out to sea and return in December. If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.
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#1630931 - 04/29/15 06:03 PM Re: Winter hold over Stripers [Re: Clabman]
jonh FUBO Registered: 03/23/02 Posts: 12598	Most do, especially the larger breeding fish. Mostly twinks and schoolies remain with a rare fish over 30 inches. Militant Bluefish Jihadist "Our leaders are stupid, they are stupid people," "It's just very, very sad" - Donald Trump 2011 "With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it." - JAMES M. INHOFE "Most meteorological research is funded by the federal government. And boy, if you want to get federal funding, you better not come out and say human-induced global warming is a hoax because you stand the chance of not getting funded." - WILLIAM GRAY "The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span those hours spent in fishing" - Babylonian proverb
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#1630962 - 04/29/15 09:31 PM Re: Winter hold over Stripers [Re: Clabman]
Clabman Member Registered: 01/06/08 Posts: 81	I'm having a hard time believing that these fish just don't leave when the water temps rise. There are literally thousands of bass from the route 8 bridge all the way down to the power plant right now. They aren't all here in July, where do they go?
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#1630967 - 04/29/15 10:32 PM Re: Winter hold over Stripers [Re: Clabman]
Murph Member Registered: 07/16/05 Posts: 3171 Loc: CT. Got a problem with that?	Originally Posted By: Clabman There are literally thousands of bass from the route 8 bridge all the way down to the power plant right now. and right to end of the breakwall... If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.
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#1630973 - 04/30/15 12:53 AM Re: Winter hold over Stripers [Re: Clabman]
junkie Member Registered: 04/24/09 Posts: 667 Loc: Bridgeport Ct	Yup theres a mix of holdover and migrating bass. But just as the winter holdovers there's a summer time bass population thats stay up river even during the hottest days. Ive seen guys catching them on sandworms around Sullivan's island in August.
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#1631527 - 05/04/15 09:57 AM Re: Winter hold over Stripers [Re: Clabman]
SWMPYNKE Member Registered: 04/15/05 Posts: 2754	The ones that head to Bridgeport end up in 5gl buckets to be sold later, a nightly event!!
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#1631873 - 05/06/15 09:26 AM Re: Winter hold over Stripers [Re: Clabman]
Tieg Member Registered: 01/30/04 Posts: 1513 Loc: SE CT	Heard a couple make it to candlewood. "I think of this war as it really is, not as the people at home imagine, with a hoorah! and a roar. It is very serious, very grim…" Manfred von Richthofen (aka The Red Baron)
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