Just my 2 cents:
There was a thread here somewhere where if I remember correctly most posters would be very happy with a one fish limit at say ~36 inches.
I think until the striper numbers are depleted and something along the one fish limit is put in place we will continue to have this discussion.
Here is what I don't like:
1) Charters taking out customers and limiting out all the time (2) fish
2) Clubs that do not have a catch and release format
3) Anyone who catches and kills and the fish goes to waste
4) That culling stuff is rediculas (someone should have broken his rod when they saw this).
5) Striper bycatch, netting
No proplem with:
1) Someone lands one or two 20 or 30 or 40 pound fish and stops at the B & T and weighs it in, takes home and it/they are eaten
2) B & T shops for weighing the fish
These two are part of the experience. Not everyone fishes 3-7x a week all year and it's not routine for them to catch a keeper. Its a big deal for them, an acomplishment. Its fun for some people. (Its not against the law and within regulations).
I agree with the saltwater license. Raise money and inforce regulaions.
The big problem is in the regulations. They need to be changed. The striper fishery cannot sustain the pressure that these current regulations allow (JMHO). Hopefully regulations are adjusted quickly (Fluke regs changed quick).
Common sense and decency, (culling, clubs killing bass for points, keeping shorts) is something some people just don't have. Inforcing regulations is the only way to punish them.
Just because the law allows us to keep big breeder fish, are we within our moral rights to do so? Is it the smartest thing to do for our fishing future to take our limit every time?
Yes it is withen our moral rights to keep big fish (regulations).
To take a limit every time is just plain stupid.
And I'll add that the current regulations are just plain stupid.
Originally Posted by
finchaser
2007 reports allot of 40 and 50's
2008 reports mostly 40 and 30's
2009 reports mostly 30 and 20's
They say people who don't learn from history will be condemned to repeat it.
So True^^^^^ but you can't stop the tackle store hero especially now with B&N doing video weigh in's
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