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View Poll Results: What do you do with the Stripers you catch?
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I'm strictly C&R, I don't eat Stripers.
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6.15% |
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I'm C&R only to an extent and only keep 1 or 2 a year.
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46.15% |
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I'm C&R to about 75% of my Striper catch.
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22.31% |
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I'm C&R to about 50% of my Striper catch.
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6.92% |
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I'm C&R to about 25% of my Striper catch.
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10.00% |
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I'm C&R only when they break free of my line. I take almost every legal Striper I catch.
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8.46% |
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01-31-2007, 06:05 PM
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#31
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
Posts: 7,260
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This is the first year I kept a couple, I think 3 stripers and 5 or 6 Blue Fish. I don't eat fish but my wife and mother in law does.
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Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey 
Recreational Surfcaster 99.9% C&R
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01-31-2007, 06:10 PM
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#32
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Lakeville MA
Posts: 57
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everything i keep gets eaten.. i see no problems with your daily bag and possesion limits being followed.. thats why they're in place.. i cant wait to have some fresh striper again.. or even better some fluke.. yumm
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01-31-2007, 06:30 PM
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#33
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: marshfield,ma
Posts: 833
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I drive all my fish to the local tackle shops and get my picture taken with them, then call the fisherman and let them in on my catch. After that they go in the garden for fertilizer
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01-31-2007, 06:42 PM
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#34
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Onset
Posts: 1,228
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I take probably 20-30 fish per year.
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01-31-2007, 06:49 PM
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#35
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Max....you want fertilizer use bluefish.  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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01-31-2007, 06:57 PM
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#36
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Marshfield, MA
Posts: 6,267
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFish
Max....you want fertilizer use bluefish. |
I think he was being sarcastic......  |
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01-31-2007, 06:58 PM
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#37
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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01-31-2007, 07:00 PM
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#38
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Marshfield, MA
Posts: 6,267
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oh ya...I keep a few...but release 99%
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01-31-2007, 07:08 PM
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#39
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: marshfield,ma
Posts: 833
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Ya sarcasm, I keep about 2-3 for the fam.
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01-31-2007, 07:09 PM
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#40
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Eels
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cape Cod,MA.
Posts: 3,333
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I release after I eat it  you gotta restock the habah
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Live bait sharp hooks and timing is all you need
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01-31-2007, 07:18 PM
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#41
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
Posts: 5,985
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I keep most of my keepers. The ones that get released are the fish in the 30# and up class. I fish to fill my freezer. Stripers, fluke, clams-whatever. It is MY choice. Period.
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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01-31-2007, 07:49 PM
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#42
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,425
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I mostly throw them back, I have to drive at least three hours to fish and if I'm cleaning fish and dealing with them it means I ain't fishing. I keep them if it's close to quittin time and a short walk to my car, but I won't deal with a fish all night long when I walked a mile to fish a spot.
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01-31-2007, 07:57 PM
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#43
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
Posts: 17,125
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Quote:
Originally Posted by thortum
I keep a few for my family, and I never give them away. I believe that if you take it's life, you should eat it.
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I only keep a few as well, but I like to release the rest so that the seals are well fed  |
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01-31-2007, 08:08 PM
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#44
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: RI/NJ
Posts: 22
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i keep a few a year. Generally if i top my personal best it comes home with me to eat.
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01-31-2007, 08:46 PM
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#45
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: SOCO
Posts: 1,995
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I voted for one or two, which was true this year (two), but usually its a couple more (but still not 75% of the catch)
My wife and girls dont like fish, but my parents do, so that is usually where they go.
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01-31-2007, 10:10 PM
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#46
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 373
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I throw it all back freshwater and saltwater, never really liked the taste of fish. Fun to catch though.....
Eric
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01-31-2007, 11:18 PM
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#47
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Callinectes sapidus
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 6,277
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I don't eat fish but my wife and mother in law does
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Bob, ...ya gotta keep the women in your life happy!... 
Next thing you know you C & R guys will start hunting deer with paint ball guns...just wanting to know if you would have hit it... 
Seriously, to each his own as long as it's within the law. 
Like I stated earlier, I LOVE to eat fish. I was raised on fish. No sob story here but my parents were immigrants and anything that could save money got done. I started fishing reel early in life and now I "owe"...at least I feel like I do.
Nothing beats that feeling of knocking on one of the ol' timers doors holding a nice fresh striper and seeing their eyes light up.
What's that term?.....PRICE-LESS!
I'm such a glutton, I take other peoples' fish....  ...whether they're looking or not.  |
... it finally happened, there are no more secret spots
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01-31-2007, 11:43 PM
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#48
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Been many moons
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Aquidneck Island
Posts: 400
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mmmm striped bass. I find it strange that some dont even eat fish.
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Standing on the water, casting your bread
While the eyes of the idol with the iron head are glowing
Distant ships sailing into the mist
You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing
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02-01-2007, 08:38 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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Quote:
Originally Posted by t.orlando
I take probably 20-30 fish per year.
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About the same here. I'm a fish slayer, and don't apologize for it. The flip side is that I still manage to release 95% of the legal fish I catch, but I still take a few home for family, friends, and posterity.Nothing wasted. |
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02-01-2007, 10:52 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Bean Town
Posts: 466
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Slipknot
I only keep a few as well, but I like to release the rest so that the seals are well fed |
I think that was a zing from another post? I still like you??? |
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02-01-2007, 11:18 AM
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#51
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Corona Del Mar, CA
Posts: 794
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I'll always take 2 fish when I go out. One for the family and another for favors and friends.
I also fish with light tackle allot so many of the fish I bring in are spent anyway.
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02-01-2007, 08:18 PM
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#52
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Sturbridge MA
Posts: 3,127
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I keep one maybe 2 a year. Usually the first keeper, then maybe another if im fishing with someone who hasnt eaten it before/in a long time.
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Everything is better on the rocks.
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02-01-2007, 08:55 PM
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#53
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 4,716
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Thankfully I can and do help myself to all creatures but the magority of what I catch is released....except for shellfish.  |
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02-01-2007, 09:14 PM
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#54
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Hanover, MA
Posts: 126
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I might keep 2 a season, the rest I give to Slingah  |
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02-01-2007, 10:37 PM
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#55
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Wave Jumper
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: On The Edge!
Posts: 443
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Quote:
Originally Posted by thortum
I keep a few for my family, and I never give them away. I believe that if you take it's life, you should eat it.
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DITTO! |
Insanity is a long and winding road ... I think I finally made it there.
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02-01-2007, 11:12 PM
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#56
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Seacoast NH
Posts: 108
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Teaser, awesome avatar. Is that from the spray can artist?
Harvest only 30" stripers, taste the best. It's getting harder to catch this size fish for some reason. Seems they are much larger or much smaller than the years past.
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02-02-2007, 12:08 AM
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#57
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Wave Jumper
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: On The Edge!
Posts: 443
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Casting Z's
Teaser, awesome avatar. Is that from the spray can artist?
Harvest only 30" stripers, taste the best. It's getting harder to catch this size fish for some reason. Seems they are much larger or much smaller than the years past.
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Thanks, no it's not the spray paint artist, it's one I did myself.
Just a bunch of stuff layered on each other to make a complete scene, it's not finished yet. |
Insanity is a long and winding road ... I think I finally made it there.
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02-02-2007, 08:33 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Seacoast NH
Posts: 108
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Great job! Hope I didn't insult you in any way? I would call that done, Teaser.
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02-02-2007, 08:41 AM
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Finally
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: FL
Posts: 7,181
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Goose
Thankfully I can and do help myself to all creatures but the magority of what I catch is released....except for shellfish. |
and except for BlooooooooFish...   |
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02-02-2007, 09:13 AM
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stuck in a desert :(
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Im a little lost right now
Posts: 243
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I usually keep about 4 a year. grill 3 in the course of the summer and 1 in the winter
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