Is It Time for Conservation - Page 2 - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Mr. Sandman · 07-20-2006, 02:44 PM

Most guys are NOT taking two fish per day. Most recs take nothing home or one large now and again. The guys that that 2 @28 fish so infrequently it is not important.

What hurts IMO is taking 1.2 million # from your 'hood in 4 weeks...and you wonder why the surfcasting suddenly sucks after comm season begins.

take the price off the fish and rebuild bait stocks and you will have all the quailty bass you want.

FWIW, to date, I have released 6 fish that were "pin worthy" and I could have weighed in but released, I only weighed in one fish that was not going to make it and I took that home and consumed it.

IMO this contest is not doing measurable harm to stocks. Also you are now seeing comm guys weigh in fish! Expect to see a LOAD of big fish every week for the next 4 weeks. These are going to market after the scales.

MrHunters · 07-19-2006, 02:17 PM

don't have to worry about me... i don't catch keepers.

choggieman · 07-19-2006, 03:13 PM

The day the bulk of the fishermen here in the northeast realize that the so called "fame" associated with the taking of a large bass and parading it around is severely detrimental to the fishery, will be the day things change for the better. As a community, we celebrate those that slay the big fish and worship them. If a catch of a fish can garner this type of celebrity status, most will take the route of kill and show. If we make it known that the true fisherman look down upon such acts of killing these oversized fish, maybe then we will turn the corner. We need to celebrate those that catch, photograph and release a big girl, and condemn those that kill, parade and fillet them.

spence · 07-19-2006, 03:30 PM

I didn't even read DZ's post but I agree with what he said

-spence

dickmont · 07-19-2006, 08:18 PM

pete, dz, clammer

i coudn't agree with you guys more. i've fished all over this country for 50 years and have zero fish on my walls not because they didn't belong there but because they belonged to the water. don't get me wrong, i LOVE to eat fish. take a picture and let the big one's go. you want the fishery to be good 10, 20 30 years on? don't kill the most sucessful of the breed today. duh!!!!! my 2 cents.

MrHunters · 07-20-2006, 07:36 AM

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fish keep today is one less tomorrow

thats not necissarly true unless you really mean just tomorrow. they do reproduce on occasion.. at any right i know what you mean.

Not all boat fishing guys are doing that great. like i said in a previous post. talked to a commerci guy the other day who fish from 2am to 8pm for 3 or 4 keepers. Fished with a buddy of mine who ALWAYS catches fish and is having a crappy year and other than a million dinks I have one 29" keeper to show for the year.

I personally love to eat what i catch.. Its my favorite tasting fish and would love to have enough for once or twice a month through the winter...I don't see anything wrong with keeping to your means.

Do you think people are wasting what they keep??

Windcheater John · 07-20-2006, 10:00 AM

Guys, the fish are on there way, I have never seen the bass so plentiful down here in jersey, acres of them feeding all around the new moon and full moon, the bunker(pogies) schools are massive and the bass are there. I remember the discussion on the N.J. forums last year and the worrying, then we here about R.I. and the year they where having. When you hear guys down here referring to rats on the beach this morning or this evening, they were actually talking about 15-20#'s

The Dad Fisherman · 07-20-2006, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Windcheater John

Guys, the fish are on there way, I have never seen the bass so plentiful down here in jersey, acres of them feeding all around the new moon and full moon, the bunker(pogies) schools are massive and the bass are there. I remember the discussion on the N.J. forums last year and the worrying, then we here about R.I. and the year they where having. When you hear guys down here referring to rats on the beach this morning or this evening, they were actually talking about 15-20#'s

Road Trip!!!

JFigliuolo · 07-20-2006, 10:43 AM

Pick up me and shadow on the way through!

Grapenuts · 07-20-2006, 11:30 AM

And there you have it.....big bait[fish] not crabs or lobster...they have it,we don't[on the cape] maybe in wareham, but not in the bay[after the mac's leave] or on the backside. so it all depend's on who you talk to in the different area's as to the stock of striper's...those fish in NJ won't be coming here anytime soon , if at all unless ....as John r is alway's saying.....SAVE the bait or you'll have no fish.

Redsoxticket · 07-20-2006, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman

Road Trip!!!

Count me in

l.i.fish.in.vt · 07-20-2006, 02:49 PM

Wincheater, so all the bass that should be in NY CON RI and MAss are held up in NJ. i really hope that it is wall to wall bass every where in NJ other wise we are in trouble. i think you can't judge by what is caught. you can catch 50 fish out of a school of 50, that doesn't mean there are a lot of fish to be had.if things were the way they should be you would here of decent fish along the whole striper coast,not just one spot or the other.sure there are small fish, but o few bad YOY and what is left for the future?

Windcheater John · 07-21-2006, 10:35 AM

L.i.f.i.v clean out your PM'S