well put. I've been watchin this thread for a couple days now an about everything has been mentioned. Fact is the number of stripers is on a serious decline. So wether an commercial or a sportfisherman we all need to back away from the trough an look what needs to be done for the fish, Not who gets what quota,who's at fault or to blame. we need to pull our heads out of our perspective posteriors an pressure the poleticians to slow things down before we are back in the 70,s again.Like my old freind Bob Pond used to preach. Only we can fix what we break. Greed an selfishness do nothing but hurt us all. Nice thing to help PETA with it's devide an conquer tactics. Damn are we dumb sometimes.
I love spending a night out with my secon wife a large female striped bass. Love sharing it with freinds also. Same as you commercial guys do when not chasing stripers for that new motor or SUV or those sportfishermen that spend hrs playin the blame game, We all love and enjoy fishing wether it be Striper or trout fishing so lets all do a bit to fix things before it get too far gone to fix, my thought Ron

NOW we're talking something important! Are those superstrike needles wood? :heybaby:

As an aside, this thread http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripert...interview.html has a link to a PDF where Coleman interviewed Pichney and they discuss the same issues that have arisen on this thread. Good read. History repeats.

In Numbskull's case we could simply tag him and release him back into the wild...as a threatened species he might eventually need legislative protection and perhaps, institutional encampment. Of course he would still be allowed to participate in on line fishing forums, albeit for a few supervised moments once per month.

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Nice to have a brother to laugh at your jokes.

That's why they have canned tuna.

He's got a boat, too.

And just where would you find a plug to do that? Eels ain't gonna do it :rude:

Trapperpierre is good people...
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I noticed there's an advertisement in there for eels at .70 per pound too...:alright:

Heathen

This winter one of the things I want to do is find the article from the fisherman around the same time as the pichney one that expresses regrets over livelining bunker and mowing off the bass population.
Of course then we can debate if the collapse of the striped bass population was due to overfishing or a natural cycle. Was the collapse at the time of the closing of the Island striped bass clubs (1900) also due to recreational overfishing, commercial overfishing or just a natural population change to prevent disease and starvation from overpopulation?
I can't count creatures living under the ocean but we can and have quantified rabbit, partridge and other small animal populations and see that they go in population cycles depending on a number of factors. Hunting animals can reduce population collapses due to overpopulation. Think about it, if you have enough food for 1000 animals to survive, how many survive if you put 2000 in the same space. It's not 1000.
The only thing I am sure of is that I do not know the answer, and I do not think there is a simple one.

Nobody accused anybody here. Calm down.

And there must be a lot of fools around.... :rotf2:

don't be hatin' on franklin :buds: