The net as a fountain of misinformation

[hookset]

So much garbage gets posted daily on the net I thought it would entertaining to start posting it. It's unreal the stuff people believe. Ill kick things off, read this the other day.

"Rod and reel fishing will never hurt the striped bass fishery"

[plugcrazy]

Haha. If it's posted on the internet, it must be true!

[finchaser]

Rod and reel is the culprit this time around on the wipe out
https://youtu.be/y23AADPfWJU

[surferman]

"With these reductions in bag limits in NY and NJ over the past few years the striped bass population has to have increased!"

Just read this tonight. You can't fix stupid.

[williehookem]

See this one posted a lot:
The stripers are all over. If you are not finding them then you don't know how to fish.

[nitestrikes]

Rod and reel is the culprit this time around on the wipe out
https://youtu.be/y23AADPfWJU

So true. Could not agree more.

[fishgutz]

"Stripers all over can't get away from them! Got two stripers in bay yesterday"

[rockhopper]

^^^What happens if the guy doubles his catch and gets four stripers in one day? Is it epic? LOLOLOL

[lostatsea]

Theres probably a difference in expectations when you are younger or older. The younger generation wants to fish for an hour and go home, so two fish it's probably great for them.

[plugginpete]

Millenials. They won't go fishing unless there are reports on the interweb.

[baitstealer]

'All you folks talking about releasing everything are people who don't catch fish.'

What a turd bag!

[fishinmission78]

^^^What happens if the guy doubles his catch and gets four stripers in one day? Is it epic? LOLOLOL

And if they catch 20 they crap their pants and have to immediately text all their friends about it. Yeah we crushed it. Boo yah. FB and instagram as well.

[williehookem]

I have heard this Charter Captain say this more than once and I am so sick of it I want to go to the forum and register just to tell him he is full of crap.

"Hook and line fisherman will never deplete the stocks only commercial nets killing everything in there path!"

[BassBuddah]

A common misconception. When you consider comms catch less bass overall than recs, with the exception of the poaching. This time if the bass fishery goes downhill it will be the fault of the recs.

[seamonkey]

"If we drained the ocean out a few feet the beach would be fine. Instead of pumping the sand they should be pumping the water out."

Remark made about beach replenishment.. Pure genius, not!

[hookset]

Another knucklehead idiot -The joker who said this just happens to be a mate on a party boat lol.
"Rod and reel fishermen can and will never be able to hurt a population of fish. It dont matter if you have 8 party boats railed with 70 people slaying the fish . What they catch in a season still won't compare to what a commercial vessel can do in a few tows."

[cowherder]

I thought I read that commercial fishermen catch less overall than the recreational guys. Maybe it was on this site somewhere?

[finchaser]

I thought I read that commercial fishermen catch less overall than the recreational guys. Maybe it was on this site somewhere?

Recs catch way more than commercial as per recent data fisherman magazine even took bass out of dream boat contest for conservation reasons

[jigfreak]

^^^^^ what he said, 100% correct.

[nitestrikes]

Commercial fishermen are highly regulated and inspected at random. Sure there are the abuses by the cads who do their business under the cover of night. Proportionally speaking, the enforcement for recreationals is a drop in the bucket. Also as someone mentioned, recreational fishermen catch much greater numbers than commercial fishermen do. Factual information can be easily searched.