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I seldom fish bait, if I do it's with circles. Mostly fish single hook lures, jigs, rubber,tin etc. All the barbs on my plugs are crushed and the rear hooks on pencils are singles. I use fairly heavy tackle so fish isn't coming to me on it's side. Try to release fish while in water if I can.
I wasn't always this way, but if I'm gonna let them go I want to give them the best shot at survival.
I keep 3-4 a year, would rather cod,haddock,seabass,tuna,fluke,flounder and the list goes on. . . .
Once again the real issue isn't the slug of fish out there now, it's the low recruitment stocks behind them for the next 5-6 years.
Before any draconian measures need to be enacted, a coast-wide 1 @ 36 would be a good start. Let's them breed for a few more years before they get culled out. The end game would be better for everybody.
Just an old guy chiming in.
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