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04-02-2009, 10:48 AM
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coast wide slot please. smaller ones are safer to eat anyways..  |
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04-02-2009, 11:19 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nebe
coast wide slot please. smaller ones are safer to eat anyways.. |
Bingo! And tastier, kinda like the veal of fish flesh.  |
Why even try......... 
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04-02-2009, 11:22 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flaptail
Bingo! And tastier, kinda like the veal of fish flesh. |
Flap, you've been silent lately. Must be some sore mouthed salmonoids out there someplace. |
It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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04-02-2009, 01:12 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flaptail
Bingo! And tastier, kinda like the veal of fish flesh. |
I'm hoping to find that out this summer.......Working in Maine now.....right on the water. 
Just gotta figure out how to get them across state lines...  |
"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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04-02-2009, 03:16 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Bravo
Now that's what I'm talking about. Err on the side of conservation. Don't even take the chance of repeating the mistakes of the past.
Jon
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04-03-2009, 09:11 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Ma/RI
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nebe
coast wide slot please. smaller ones are safer to eat anyways.. |
I've been saying this for a while now. |
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04-04-2009, 01:17 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nebe
coast wide slot please. smaller ones are safer to eat anyways.. |
Good luck getting that through the mid-atlantic, eh.
Let alone any fish swimming outside of 3 mi. is supposdedly unencumbered by any fishing pressure |
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04-04-2009, 09:26 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Pembroke,MA
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Heres my take on this whole situation. Making striped bass a gamefish is going to accomplish very little if anything without a lot of other pieces falling into place beforehand. You need to look at the more serious issues facing the species. The two that concern me are the lack of baitfish from overfishing (which is effecting every predatory fish in the ocean), and the bycatch/poaching by draggers. First lets start with the baitfish issue if there is no bait, it will not matter if any one on the whole coast keeps a single fish. The population will not be able to grow if there is not a food source to support that growth. Now, the issues of bycatch by draggers. If you can get commercial fisherman to be honest with you, they will tell you 10,000lb tows of fish all 30lbs and up aren't uncommon. Now that is one tow by one boat just think how many fish large fish are killed by them throughout the year. Now this happens in the same places year a after year at the same time every year. So why aren't we fighting to get these areas closed down during these time periods. Basically, what I'm getting at is I think we are fighting the wrong battle in trying to stop the rod and reel commercial harvest of bass, and that their are much more concerning issues facing the species.
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