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Originally Posted by Sea Flat
The NJ Regs. are obviously not what must of us wanted, but I will say, generally speaking that there are many fisherman in our community (online community) that would not keep a fish over 43" anyway. In addition, most weekend warriors are not going to catch a 43" or over fish at noon on Saturday when they fish. The only area where this becomes problematic to me is with party boats and charter boats. Don't get me wrong, this is still a step in the right direction, and it saves many fish (in theory).
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Agreed 100%. But that's my point. The party and charters are by far the major catch and that's were the 1@28 reg could make a big difference since most of those fish are breeders. I have for the past 7-8 years been out with a certain very accomplished charter captain. We almost always catch and I have never seen a fish under 34" that I can recall. I stopped going last year but that's my issue. I have nothing personal about for hire boats, just trying to do my part as I see it.