Strange year so far

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by inTHERAPY

Every pogie boat in the bay is not ARK BAIT CO. As a matter of absolute fact Ark has not even set yet, soon, but not yet. The red boat is not Ark, no more red boat. If the pogie biomass in the bay increases you will see an expected SIX different companies catching bait this year. Art

Yeah..
Ark doesn't look so bad any more, huh?
(thats rhetorical, not directed at you inThearpy)

Before all this RISAA/Legistaltor pogie fuss it was a quiet little one boat operation.
now up to half a dozen. I'm fully convinced the hoopla of a few years ago brought the Bay pogy stocks to the attention of northern neighbors...

Pandora's box I suppose...

[Saltheart]

I thought they had made rules that the pogie boats could not fish the northern part of the Bay? I forget the landmark between the north and south not allowed/allowed line but I thought that had all been worked out?

[inTHERAPY]

Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND

Yeah..
Ark doesn't look so bad any more, huh?
(thats rhetorical, not directed at you inThearpy)

Before all this RISAA/Legistaltor pogie fuss it was a quiet little one boat operation.
now up to half a dozen. I'm fully convinced the hoopla of a few years ago brought the Bay pogy stocks to the attention of northern neighbors...

Pandora's box I suppose...

IMO you've hit the bulls eye with this comment and with the "both sides of your mouth comment." I have witnessed "blatant disrespect for the law" ( a little Smokey and the Bandit ) from the other boat but nothing seems to change.

[piemma]

Originally Posted by inTHERAPY

IMO you've hit the bulls eye with this comment and with the "both sides of your mouth comment." I have witnessed "blatant disrespect for the law" ( a little Smokey and the Bandit ) from the other boat but nothing seems to change.

Personally, I don't take pogies from the commercial boats but I saw guys doing just that. Then they bitch about the commercial boat. Just as Bryan said "both sides of your mouth".
I also know that there are guys buying totes of fresh pogies and chunking and doing just as good as live lining. It's all in what you want to get out of the sport.
I've gone to nights and eels. I have never chunked. Not even when I was it the surf. I will not get as many large but I will feel better about the way I fish.

I have come full circle and I admit it. Any nitwit can catch big bass with a live pogie. The Providence River has turned into an absolute zoo and I just won't do the run anymore. The last time I went there was this %#$@*& in a red "speedboat" who would run full throttle right in between boats that were trying to snag. The guy would just flip people off when someone complained. If you think that's what fishing for Stripers is all about....you can have it.

Back 30 years ago in the heyday of the commercial rod and reel that guy would have had his boat shot up.

[Cool Beans]

Originally Posted by piemma

Back 30 years ago in the heyday of the commercial rod and reel that guy would have had his boat shot up.

Well after the first time he pulled that, I think I would snag him on his next pass.

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by inTHERAPY

IMO you've hit the bulls eye with this comment and with the "both sides of your mouth comment." I have witnessed "blatant disrespect for the law" ( a little Smokey and the Bandit ) from the other boat but nothing seems to change.

Which 'other boat'