Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating - View Single Post - would you complain if some one offered you a fish?

EarnedStripes44 · 06-08-2007, 03:50 PM

I dont see the harm in accepting a fish from a fellow pier rat. Last summer, I spent my days, tossing 7 oz bank sinkers and cut squid offerings to stripers off Battery Park in Lower Manhattan (the currents around that Island are serious and were talkin 60 foot depths in casting range). Lots of schoolie stripers, but tons of eels, sea robins and dogfish. Some of the other fishermen, predominantly of Asian origin, delighted in the offer of a 3 foot eel or sea robin because they were fishing to eat. If your hungry, pride and sportsmanship aside, then what is the harm in accepting a fish from another? Now I don't fancy dogfish and eels (especially out of the Hudson River) with my grits, but if someone offered me keeper striped bass, I would gladly toss that sucka on the grill!!!!!

06-08-2007, 03:50 PM	#15
EarnedStripes44 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: North Cambridge, MA Posts: 1,358	I dont see the harm in accepting a fish from a fellow pier rat. Last summer, I spent my days, tossing 7 oz bank sinkers and cut squid offerings to stripers off Battery Park in Lower Manhattan (the currents around that Island are serious and were talkin 60 foot depths in casting range). Lots of schoolie stripers, but tons of eels, sea robins and dogfish. Some of the other fishermen, predominantly of Asian origin, delighted in the offer of a 3 foot eel or sea robin because they were fishing to eat. If your hungry, pride and sportsmanship aside, then what is the harm in accepting a fish from another? Now I don't fancy dogfish and eels (especially out of the Hudson River) with my grits, but if someone offered me keeper striped bass, I would gladly toss that sucka on the grill!!!!!