just what we have observed over the last ten years of fishing schoolies ;;
I know og @ least three fishamen that target / schoolies on light tackle & we have discussed this before & again today with a well known inshore charter captain // & we all agree that are numbers have dropped on a yearly basis ;;
The charter captain even said [[thank god] for bluefish >> i havn,t gone that far ;;
both of us were commercial then / he targeted mix & I stayed on schoolies // It didn,t make sense to me to bust ya balls to fill the truck with bulls ;
when many dealers wouldn,t take them & those that did paid .15 cents ...it wasn,t until we were way into the decline before they started paying descent prices for all three sizes ;;
if the market price now is a average 2.75 -- 3,25 I can only imange [sp] what schoolies are worth on the B/M ;;
I know that the traps are allowed to get much smaller fish >.i think 28" in RI & I read somewhere that they requested & were granted a reduction in size .. 24 or 26 they have to be 4.25 to 5.50 P/P ;;
end of the story is >> there were not enough schoolies /sooooooooooooooo we were forced to fish large ;;
think about the number of large you seen or heard about this season ;;
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