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It was interesting before the moritorium. i was doing pretty good as far as size an number of fish but I was mostly out in the boat. But from the surf it was getting harder an harder to find fish.I'd fish the Grave Yard and Fortunes Rocks and get some nice fish.Bob Pond would tell us that there was a big problem with the number of small fish and the spawning grounds were being contaminated with pesticides. at the hearings and meetings you'd hear all the comercial guys telling the same stories we hear now. Like back then the fisheries managers would only listen to the commercial interest with there high paid experts with fancy degrees tell the panels that the sportfishermen were greedy and didn't know what they're talking about and people like Bob Pond just wanted to save more fish so he could sell more plugs to sportfishermen and didn't really care about the fish.Few knew that most of the money atom lures made went right back into research and action to help save the striped Bass.I wish i had had a tape recorder back them because I could play back almost word for word what we hear today.Don't listen to the selfish sportfishermen and give the commercials more of the resourse. Well history does sure repeat itself. The difference this time is now we have to register to fish which will cut down the numbers of us fishing and give a larger voice to the commercial interest.There is no compromise as they won't give up anything till things get bad. Look what happened to the cod,halibut and haddock .Take till nothing left to take then switch to another species and do it again. Sad part is our infighting will help them. We were stupid enough to beleive they gave in on rod n reel commercial because they were being fair. LOL now we are fighting amoung ourselves instead of working together to fix the problem. The past has a way of coming around again. Ron
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