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Backbeach Jake · 02-01-2006, 07:41 PM

I think that fishermen now are more skilled and more importantly, better equipted. The tools of yore were a little primitive compared to what we can and do buy now. Guys have learned to target trophy fish, too. When we start seeing lots and lots of large tho, I get the heebie-jeebie flashback to just before the crash in the striper population. One year we had tons of big fish and the next you couldn't find any. That leaves a scar. We still have lots of twinkies, thank God, or I'd be really scared.

02-01-2006, 07:41 PM	#3
Backbeach Jake Registered User iTrader: (0) Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Here and There Seasonally Posts: 5,985	I think that fishermen now are more skilled and more importantly, better equipted. The tools of yore were a little primitive compared to what we can and do buy now. Guys have learned to target trophy fish, too. When we start seeing lots and lots of large tho, I get the heebie-jeebie flashback to just before the crash in the striper population. One year we had tons of big fish and the next you couldn't find any. That leaves a scar. We still have lots of twinkies, thank God, or I'd be really scared.
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