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Michael
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 Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 7:24 pm Post subject: Herring |
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My usual fishing buddy and I hit South Benson today for herring. Got there around 9am as tide was coming in.
2 fishermen were already there and said the bite was good before we got there while the tide was lower.
The bite continued to be slow as the tide got higher but finally picked up once it got closer to high tide.
Buddy and I stayed till 1:30pm and landed about a dozen each. Both of us only had 2 doubles while the rest were all singles. We had 1 good run for about 10 or 15 minutes while the rest of the time it would be an occasional fish or hit. |
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Cd662
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| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Good to see you and the gang out there Mike, it was pretty slow goings. I ended up with 14, a few popped off. |
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jimbojonez
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fishingkid
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| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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That's river herring (alewives and bluebacks), not sea herring, the kind you catch during the winter  River Herring move up tidal rivers in the spring and they're often times chased by Stripers, and Sea Herring come into rivers and such during the winter.
And Michael do you eat the Herring?
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SeaDog1
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| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
What they're talking about is "Sea Herring" which run this time of year and there is no limit on them !
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Crest Daddy
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| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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| SeaDog1 wrote: |
Hi,
What they're talking about is "Sea Herring" which run this time of year and there is no limit on them !
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Last year you were saying NO SEA HERRING ALLOWED!!! I was about to go postal on your a$$$ !!!
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SeaDog1
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| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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Hi CD,
No ! -> What I said was you cannot fish for 'Sea Herring" up in the rivers or streams beyond certain points.
I called the DEEP about that particular point and that is what they told me, because schools of the other prohibited river herrings and alewives are there since they can and do get mixed with Sea Herring !
We went over this issue in 2011 under your topic post on "Atlantic (Sea) Herring" -> and I do agree it is a confusing issue -> But that's the way it is per the DEEP because of the mixing of all 3 speices at river and stream mouths !
Catching "Sea Herring" in Ct. harbors or LIS is OK for recreational fishermen!
Oh! FYI -> National Marine Fisheries has again closed area 2 for 2013 -> (LIS and off the NY atlantic coast) to commercial fishermen because of quota limits and increased mixing of the 3 species of herring off coastal waters !
If you need to go postal -> Do it with DEEP and NMF --------> They're the ones that call the shots on this issue -> NOT Me ? -> I just passed on their info 
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jimbojonez
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| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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| thank you Michael for this post, and thank you all for the knowledge about herring. |
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Michael
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 2:43 am Post subject: |
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I don't eat the herring FK. I don't know of any good ways to make it other than the original pickled herring recipe.
Still brought a few home to help feed a group of feral cats that live in the back of the building I live in. |
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Cd662
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| Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2013 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Pan fry, hard and fast, the small bones are generally soft enough to eat at that point but proceed with caution. |
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