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Date: June 24, 2006 at 08:38:36
From: ken, [pool-64-222-33-3.prov.east.verizon.net]
Subject: Re: locating "richer" fly fishing spots on Long Island's... |
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Note on sand eels. There are two species.
Inshore and offshore, the inshore are less than 5" and the offshore grow to 12" or so.
They have two different Latin names.
Two differnt kinds of fish with different habits.
(Sand eels and 12'.)
The larger schools of offshore sand eels (over five") are found in deeper water along the whole coast. 12' seems to be the inside limit that they frequent. They are much more important on a yearly basis to ocean stripers and bluefish than any other bait. They are an open ocean resident rather than a frequent inshore visitor. You will find them close in colder weather in later fall and winter. Also the fall migration of offshore stripers are connected to their moving south in water 50' deep and more.
There are vast schools of stripers that by-pass the coast on the fall migration.
The big rips (ledges) off Mantalk are located in areas where there is deeper water that wells up and over the shallower ledges carrying the sand eels up with it. That is the major reason why the tip of Long Island is so consistant in producing fish. Heavy current and a massive amount of food. When the sand eels move the fishing gets spotty.
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