Old fishing stories

[Flaptail]

Originally Posted by kennebecstriper

AND WE WONDER WHY FISHING ISN'T AS GOOD ANYMORE!!
Not slamming but 10+ fish a night, then people get mad at asians who are eating 100% of their catch and not selling breeders.
Sorry but when I started fishing it was the good old days then slow and crazy 36"+ size limits, then they came back just to get hammered again!
How about taking a couple of fish(any species) once in a while when you will eat them, otherwize enjoy the expereience and leave some for everyone else.

You have no right to pass judgement if you were not there and had experienced the times and places. 36" is relatively recent history which automactically brands you as a newcomer to this sport. Times have changed and we all, (all those who were there and part of it) are different people now with new attitudes. So in other words shut up and listen and learn. Being that your monicker implies the state of Mine and the fanatiscism of "conservation" of your relatively small part of the big picture. Maine's striped bass fishery is marginal and of little consequence when seen on the grand scale, a mostly river fishery indulged in by those new to the sport or corrupted by bad information and junk science and blinded to the real struggles that stripers really face, menaing predation by marine mammals and lack of significant large forage species upon which an adult stripers success depends if she is to reach the potenetial for growth, health and fecundity.

Go back to class my dear first grader, you have a lot to learn.

[capesams]

Interesting! when someone say's old fishing stories...it always starts off with the comm. guy's on a beach somewhere landing hundred's of pounds...etc.. etc...///// now to my way of thinking it should be about an old uncle bob who just happen to go flouder fishing and latched onto a 60lber. which towed him 3 miles up some river an after a 2.1/2 hour fight brought it to the boat.....or like when you were catching small blues from a beach on a fall sunday afternoon and something came along and ate the blue, but never surfaced once while you were being spooled and running out of beach to run it down......those are fish stories.....just like the time two budd's were fishing for stripers and one got a hit on his eel..hooked it and brought it in only to find the eel had passed through the gill's of the first fish and another fish came along an got hooked too...two fish at the same time on one eel....thats a fish story an true.

[Karl F]

[kennebecstriper]

Sorry if I hit a real nerve there Flap but I grew up on the Ct. shore and have a 50 in Ct. Narragansette, Cape beach, and Maine river.
Yeah our Maine fishery is relatively new in the publics eyes but the fish have been there for millenium.
Your agument about lack of forage fish is well founded AND CAUSED BY A COMMERCIAL FISHERY FOR THEM!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry not a newby or a first grader but have put in over 100+ days(nights) for each of the past 28 years. 2004-2.814 stripers in Maine with a 50, 2-40's and 16-30's.
I really am an o.k. guy and not a conservation freak by the way.