I bet you see a lot more (shore) fish reg. this year but will they be (SHORE) fish
I for one do not think boat fish are any easyer to find but we do have a better chance at getting them to the scale. I can bet you Canalman that you have areas that only you or a chosen few can get to and fish from shore. Does this not make your (shore) caught fish not as hard to get as the shore fish I get from not so good a spot? To make it all a level playing field then you would have to open up ALL shore spots to ALL shore fishermen or you have just as big and advantage over other shore guys as everyone tries to say the boat guys have over them. I should have reg. as a shore guy I guess. I for one love to fish and in the 42 plus years I have gone after stripers my boat fish mean just as much to me as my shore fish but then again most of my BIG shore fish as a young man came from walking the shores of Cuttyhunk so I did have an advantage over most other shore guys and I had to take a boat to the Island to get to the fish so were they really boat fish anyway? But wait I use to take the seaplane over after school was out to spend the summer on Island so those years the fish would be shore fish right? Crap now I have to go back and see what years I took the boat or the plane.
The heck with it if you guys want to say all my fish no longer count as I will never be able to figure this out its ok with me
I think I am going fishing later just for the FUN of it.
By the way GREAT fish and I for one don't care were you got it.