After the canal bite - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

stripermaineiac · 09-06-2017, 05:27 PM

heres how it goes a lot now. Land 30lber. Run to tackle show. Weigh in for striper cup. Go back fishing. Catch 35 lber. Go to another tackle shop. As drive by dumpster tthrow 30 lber in dumpster. Go to different tackle shop weigh in 35lber.An on an on. Guys picking up dumpsters complaining of smell of several dead large stripers in many dumpsters around the Canal. See hats with several Striper Cup pins. MMMMM. Ad to this all the blue coolers placed along canal trail. No one owns them but they sure disappear quick when EPO comes around.
My point is catching big bass is fun. Catching and using them usefully is good ie feed family and friends. Catching for a pin then wasting them is a crime against the fish. yes the Canal was fun. Most have never seen anything like this season. Enjoy it but to some. STOP KILLI(NG THE DAMN FISH FOR A PIN OR A SELFY THEN WASTING THE FISH BY DUMPING THEM IN THE WOODS OR A DUMPSTER. Maybe is time for Striper Cup to go away. You know like the Scheafer tourney did.

piemma · 09-07-2017, 03:57 AM

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Originally Posted by stripermaineiac

heres how it goes a lot now. Land 30lber. Run to tackle show. Weigh in for striper cup. Go back fishing. Catch 35 lber. Go to another tackle shop. As drive by dumpster tthrow 30 lber in dumpster. Go to different tackle shop weigh in 35lber.An on an on. Guys picking up dumpsters complaining of smell of several dead large stripers in many dumpsters around the Canal. See hats with several Striper Cup pins. MMMMM. Ad to this all the blue coolers placed along canal trail. No one owns them but they sure disappear quick when EPO comes around.
My point is catching big bass is fun. Catching and using them usefully is good ie feed family and friends. Catching for a pin then wasting them is a crime against the fish. yes the Canal was fun. Most have never seen anything like this season. Enjoy it but to some. STOP KILLI(NG THE DAMN FISH FOR A PIN OR A SELFY THEN WASTING THE FISH BY DUMPING THEM IN THE WOODS OR A DUMPSTER. Maybe is time for Striper Cup to go away. You know like the Scheafer tourney did.

.....and that's why I stopped doing the Striper Cup in 2013. I personally know of a 60+ that was killed for the pin and then thrown away. The Cup is outdated like the Schaefer Tourney was.

Sure they have a C&R. How many guys do C&R as compared to the guys that kill and discard breeders. IF you are going to kill it, for Christ sake EAT IT!