Originally Posted by
J Barbosa
I was talking to Dark not long ago and thinking the same thing. These charter guys really don't care about the long term striper population...its all about how much money they can put in their pockets TODAY!!!
I mean look at the raritan bay charter guys and party boats who are not even bass fishing three weeks into October yet some claim the population is better than ever. They help kill all the bass and then move onto the next species. Once they decimate that species they will go onto the next one. Eventually they rebound and then the same guys will come back and kill them all over again. A new definition to the term "CYCLE OF LIFE"!
Fisher Price IV 10/18 Sea Bass, Porgys, and Unreal Blackfishing
"Ran our open boat trips this morning. With the slower than usual bass fishing we decided to go bottom fishing. It was pretty much one stop shopping with non-stop action all morning with porgys, sea bass and blackfish flying over the rail. The guys filled two and a half baskets of sea bass and porgies and landed around 100 blackfish (only keeping our legal limit) to 7 lbs".