How Is Your Season So Far?

[Sea Dangles]

Originally Posted by Rockfish9

it's a great point...but here's the thing... not everyone can afford a boat..( luckily for me I can).. or has the time or the monetary means to travel hundreds of miles to fish ... ... I've fished tuna... sharks and ground fish.. back before it was trendy to do so.. how are those stocks doing these days... Not everyone has Bonito, weakfish... albies or even a 'tog or scup to fish for..... the draggers have wiped out the flounder inshore... fluke rarely visit north of
Boston.. I guess one can put the down riggers on the boat ( if one has a boat) and go salmon fishing.. or peel the dust of off of a fly rods and head to the mountains... but all this avoids the real problem... fisheries management... anyone that wants to target a particular species ( any species ..not just striped bass)should be able to take up their favorite method and have a reasonable chance of catching fish... maybe not a P.B on every outing....but at least be afforded the opportunity at quality... obviously not everyone's skill set is the same... some have put more time in.. some have simply been blessed...it just saddens me to see so many struggling when I Know that it does not need to be this way... I hope I never see the day when a dog fish or a skate is considered a "good " catch...

I just returned from a week in Va Beach and was fortunate to get offshore for a day trip. It was slow..as is the trend in some areas. I have been going for 9 years and when I first started it was a slaughterhouse. Come December and January they had been filling dumpsters daily w racks of bass!!! They have not brought a bass to the dock in 3 years at the Rudee inlet. 12 miles out there are huge schools...sound familiar? I don't feel trendy just for fishing for ground fish,I just enjoy it. I haven't tried for bass in a month, but I know they are where I left them.
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