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I have to admit that in the past several weeks there seems to be alot of large fish being kept. I myself have kept 3 big fish this year, which for me is unusual, but I was fishing tournaments and they are not catch and release. Due to the fact that I caught that fish that weighed 36.7 lbs, I will probably not keep another fish this year unless I am tournament fishing and the fish I might catch would be bigger than that fish. Looking at it from the tackle shops perspective, for many long weeks this season I saw not alot of pictures being hung on there walls because nobody got into alot of the larger fish, then in the past several weeks things busted open and the pictures started growing.
Then commercial season started and the fish catch ratio for recreational has seemed to decline a bit. Which in my opinion happens every year. If you are a recreational and are taking 1 keeper a day, and a commercial can take 40 keepers a day over 34 inches then the big fish start to disappear pretty fast if the commercials are doing well. I have heard that the commercial season might be closing very soon as they have already taken half of the alotted quoted for the year already. SO will that leave enough big fish out there. Well I think yes as there is alot of water out there. We survived commercial season last year and this year so far have seen very heavy quality fish. But I am still concered at what I have seen personally this year of a class of fish between 10 inches and 23 " that seem to be lacking greatly. Is this the result of by catch from draggers, trawlers and gill nets? I do not have a clue, but would surely like to know.
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