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Originally Posted by piemma
See this is exactly the additude a lot of guys had in 86 and 87, right before the moratorium. The rod and reel comms on the Back all said the same thing. "If this is the end of the Stripers then I'm taking all I can before someone else does."
The slaughter in the Canal, the slaughter on the SW Reef and the EEZ all have directly contributed to this. I fished the Canal with Mike L this past spring and I watched a guy put 3 30+# fish in his truck at the Sag. No DEM guys around, no enforcement of the regs.
We all saw this coming, as we did back in the first slaughter.
There is an answer and that's Game Fish Status. I don't want to hear about the C&R mortality. That's Bull crap. Game Fish Status worked fot Snook, Tarpon, etc. It has to be across the board, ALL STATES. It will have to start with a moratorium. CLOSE IT DOWN!!!!
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Ha. I was hot to trot to post about this as an hour ago as I passed a squirrel cop doin a road detail again and was on the phone with my fishing buddy about it but you beat me to it
Typical politicians passing more restrictive regulations when they don't do their jobs to enforce the regs already on the books.
You are a better man than me cause I can't bring myself or my kid to deal with that #^&#^&#^&#^& show in the canal. All i have read about heard and witnessed over the past few years with blatant poaching down there is asinine. Dont get me wrong. They don't call me saint michael cause my halo is on crooked. I have toed the gray line plenty over the years. But what continues to happen at the canal/ RR bridge with no enforcement I am speechless about when it is well advertised everywhere and easy to enforce. Too many of these squirrel cops are afraid to deal with language barriers of poachers for fear of more hassle of opening a can of worms regarding legal statuses/ immigration / licensing. They would rather turn a blind eye to it. Just like the judges that try these poachers with the attitude of you are taking up precious court time for fish I eat for dinner when I have a lobby full of murderers. Slap on the wrist. Next.
I spoke with a young new squirrel cop to the Westport area 3 yrs ago (i out of the game now) in the middle of the nite about it and he agreed that most of them don't care about / see the significance of a few poached fish. This kid assured me he would never shirk his duties cause if one does it, so will their whole circle. Domino effect.
My buddy and I talked about how many more fish are probably killed in one good tide in the canal is prob more than the whole comm fleet does in a season.
Now I understand why what I felt was a yahoo that came out with "stars n' striper" sticker guy was about back in the mid 90's down the backside when I got after it hardcore. He had lived through the moratorium. I was too young to remember the lean years and it was a bonanza at the time. Now I'm getting ready to put that last one of those stickers I have on my truck
Sad
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