Striped Bass Management

[rphud]

I think the best path right now (well very soon anyways) is closing the fishery down for certain periods of time to prevent too many fish from being taken and to allow for easier enforcement. If we can't get there just start counting the days until an overall moratorium. Maybe this years young count will finally push that decision across the finish line if they realize size limits are just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

[Got Stripers]

I think most of us old farts have fished through the lean times, the moratorium and the incredible fishing we had after the rebound. Technology, the internet, the juvenile mentality of the young guys getting into this sport a decade ago, all combined to add to the slaughter and disregard for the fishery. GAME FISH is the answer, but I won’t be alive if and when it happens. I’m grateful to have fished in some great years and that at 70, I have other passions now that fill the void.