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Originally Posted by ivanputski
While out and about during the season, I have come across multiple guys with the attitude of " hey, if its curtains for striped bass because everyone is killing em, I might as well take it ... Someone is gonna eat it anyway... might as well be me!!"
Its a shame when anglers adopt this "i might as well get mine if its over" attitude which only helps it become a self fulfilling prophecy.
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See this is exactly the additude a lot of guys had in 86 and 87, right before the moratorium. The rod and reel comms on the Back all said the same thing. "If this is the end of the Stripers then I'm taking all I can before someone else does."
The slaughter in the Canal, the slaughter on the SW Reef and the EEZ all have directly contributed to this. I fished the Canal with Mike L this past spring and I watched a guy put 3 30+# fish in his truck at the Sag. No DEM guys around, no enforcement of the regs.
We all saw this coming, as we did back in the first slaughter.
There is an answer and that's Game Fish Status. I don't want to hear about the C&R mortality. That's Bull crap. Game Fish Status worked fot Snook, Tarpon, etc. It has to be across the board, ALL STATES. It will have to start with a moratorium. CLOSE IT DOWN!!!!
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