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No problem. Contrary to #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&'s statement that I might get the willies hearing about the earlier days. I wish I was there to see it and be a part of it.
I also think that if people back then had the ability to see how things turned out, maybe the change would have happened sooner. I would love to see so many fish around that I could see the surf rolling with 50 and 60 pound bass and that a "trophy" wasn't any fish under 70. If there was a massive overabundance of fish, I'd consider selling some too. But unfortuantely, things are not like that and are not likely to become like that. Just my opinion. My feelings are not against commercial fishing. Just overly stupid practices and excess. Rhody commercial bass anglers only get 3/day in a very short season. That's not excessive. To have some Mass guys to be allowed 40 fish, that's excessive. To have guys in Maryland fill tubs and tubs of 18 inch fish, that too is excessive. There needs to be a balance and that is not what's happening here. And the battle all too often seems to be just rec -v- comm with little word about the fish itself.
That's my beef with the system....
The past is past, it's been written and it cannot be changed. The important thing is to make sure that it is doesn't happen again where a fishery gets nearly wiped out or worse, that it happens with everybody beating their chest and taking more than their fair share... Anyway, the pictures were put up for a glimpse at a good point in the past to something or sometime that will hopefully happen again. It is also a glimpse at a club that more than it's share of sharpies working the beaches and boulders of Rhody. Not to force any issues...
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