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So I posted a number of different thought in places on this board regarding the "carnage" that took place at the Canal.
Was it wrong? No! I have been part of a few (actually many) epic blitzes. There were times on the Back (I wrote and article in the Fisherman call "Fishing with Legends"), that were epic in nature.
Did we kill every fish...no. Was it in broad daylight...no. Did you have to have put in your time to have participated in some of these blitzes...YES. And that's the difference. We fished all night out of Beach buggies that we drove to find the fish and then follow the fish. If you just stopped on the beach and fished you caught nothing. You had to know when, where, what stage of the tide, the Moon phase, the wind and if the wind changed direction, where to go next.
Now, I'm not trying to make this sound like rocket science. For Chris sake it was and still is fishing. What bothers me about the Canal debacle that just took place is the lack of appreciation by the novice fishermen that indiscriminately killed all they caught.
If yopu are not selling commercially, and I use to myself, how many 30# fish can you keep and not waste. This BS of "oh, I gave it to my neighbor" is just that in most cases....BS. An inordinate amount of those large breeders got tossed in dumpsters.
It may happen again but I think we are headed for 1988 again.
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