Rumors about stripers

[Van]

When the limit was 36, we were getting good quality fish, all largees.

[afterhours]

36" and one fish please.

[fishdog13]

i have no problem w/slot limits for non comm.

[blue oyster]

1 at 36' thats my vote

[Nebe]

i thought this site was 18 or over?? guess that limit has changed too

[Christian]

a 36" striper is older than he is.i think.

[beamie]

Bring it back to 36".

Does anyone know what the best breading fish is? i.e. When people get bent out of shape when 50+ pounders are taken do those big old fish still produce or not. Are they like humans where after a certain age it just doesn't work anymore?

[Raider Ronnie]

Originally Posted by beamie

Bring it back to 36".

Does anyone know what the best breading fish is? i.e. When people get bent out of shape when 50+ pounders are taken do those big old fish still produce or not. Are they like humans where after a certain age it just doesn't work anymore?

Whats this, do fish take viagra?

[JohnR]

Striperboy, check you e-mail...


Eben, the age isn't hardfast 18, we have several members that are under 18 but they seem to have the blessings of their folks and are not 11 years old.

Kudos to the kid, at 11, wanting to join our group and having a great passion for stripers, unfortunately, that's toooo young IMO... I would not let my son hang around you riff-raff when he's 11 either...

[Bass Babe]

Originally Posted by beamie

Does anyone know what the best breading fish is? i.e. When people get bent out of shape when 50+ pounders are taken do those big old fish still produce or not. Are they like humans where after a certain age it just doesn't work anymore?

It all boils down to reproductive potential and fecundity. Fecundity is the number of eggs a female fish produces. The larger the fish, the more resources it can allocate toward egg production. Therefore, the largest fish lay the most eggs -- and they don't go thru the 'pause. But although a 50 lb-er may lay more eggs in one whack, it has lower reproductive potential, as it is not expected to live for a heck of alot longer. Reproductive potential is the potential number of offspring a fish can produce in its remaining lifetime. So...a younger, smaller fish has greater reproductive potential, assuming it will live for many more years, grow, and make more babies each year. So don't feel guilty taking the monster fish...think twice about keeping the 28 inchers, because they're the ones with many years of breeding and tons of striper babies in their future.

[CANAL RAT]

i would like it set back the old way 1 fish at 28in and i would be open to having a slot limit.people seem to forget we had a compleat collapse of the striped bass populations not to long ago in the mid to late 70's and 80's. it is too soon to be raising size and bag limits with this stock just recovering i say make the striped bass a gamefish it makes sense the striped bass stocks cannot support comm and recs at such a high level of commerical harvest also we should regulate the whole ecosystem including forage and natural conditions(pollution,run off and such) in the chesapeke and hundson the main breeding grounds of the striped bass

[eelman]

Had to reply here! Why in the world would anyone be happy if they lowered the size?? As it is 28inches is way to small, it should go back to at least 34, I would love 36....Why do people want to keep dinks! They should also make it a one fish limit

[MakoMike]

Did you guys already forget what the ASMFC technical committee did last year? If its the same this year you can look for the size limits to go up and the bag limits to go down. Last year they thought that we were overfishing them, but they wanted to wait until this year to get better data.

The prime breeding size are roughtly 34 to 44 inch fish. The larger ones produce less eggs per pound of fish and there are a lot more of the smaller ones. So in terms of the biomass, the 34-44 inch fish are the "workhorse" breeders.

[ragfly]

I would like to see it change to what we have up here in Maine>

one fish 20" - 26" or 40" or greater.