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A good friend of mine who frequents this board has a brother. In the late 80's he was fishing for bluefish and caught a beauty of a striped bass. Another surf caster was near and saw him land it and came to congratulate him, but then explained that while that was a beautiful bass, he should really think hard about keeping it.. He went on to explain the moratorium and the fact that bass were almost gone and that was all the guy needed to say. The fish was released with a feeling that he made a little difference ( my assumption).
The sad reality is that not many of todays bass fishermen were fishing in the 80's to see the stock almost collapse.. And if you do not learn from the past, you are bound to repeat it.
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