Circle Hook / YoYo Rig Comment Period and Hearings

[piemma]

instead of calling someone who has two very good ideas about helping to improve striper mortality rates a nitwit.[/QUOTE]

..and pray tell who is the someone I called a nitwit, DMF?? If they think this is the solution to the striper mortality problem they are not in touch with what's really going on with the fishery.

Second point: How the hell do you see either rule as being enforceable? The only people that would adhere to either rule are the ones who practice C&R, don't wantonly kill indescriminently and are not the problem. You think the guys who were out on Brenton Reef during the commercial season in RI, Yo-yoing their brains out and killing 50s like they were blue gill, are going to say: "Well, OK it's 2 in the morning and I'm 2 miles off shore and it's pitch black, I better not yo-yo because it's against the law"? Of course not. It would be the same in Mass.

You know what the real answer is? Make the damn fish a game fish. Stop all commercial fishing up and down the coast from NC to MA and make it 1@36" for the recs. Then you would see results.

[Chunkah]

You know what the real answer is? Make the damn fish a game fish. Stop all commercial fishing up and down the coast from NC to MA and make it 1@36" for the recs. Then you would see results.

I like this idea the best.

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Chunkah

You know what the real answer is? Make the damn fish a game fish. Stop all commercial fishing up and down the coast from NC to MA and make it 1@36" for the recs. Then you would see results.

I like this idea the best.

Game fish won't do as much. best impact is reduce overall pressure not just pressure from one group.

Pogies Forever!

[b-ware]

Originally Posted by piemma

instead of calling someone who has two very good ideas about helping to improve striper mortality rates a nitwit.

..and pray tell who is the someone I called a nitwit, DMF?? If they think this is the solution to the striper mortality problem they are not in touch with what's really going on with the fishery.

Second point: How the hell do you see either rule as being enforceable? The only people that would adhere to either rule are the ones who practice C&R, don't wantonly kill indescriminently and are not the problem. You think the guys who were out on Brenton Reef during the commercial season in RI, Yo-yoing their brains out and killing 50s like they were blue gill, are going to say: "Well, OK it's 2 in the morning and I'm 2 miles off shore and it's pitch black, I better not yo-yo because it's against the law"? Of course not. It would be the same in Mass.

You know what the real answer is? Make the damn fish a game fish. Stop all commercial fishing up and down the coast from NC to MA and make it 1@36" for the recs. Then you would see results.[/QUOTE]

Enforceable my a$$ What ever happened to SPORTMANSHIP, does every fisherman need a personal EPO to make sure he obeys the laws????????????????

[DZ]

I could live with using circles for my eel fishing. Probably just alter them a bit.

I do endorse the yoyo ban. This method is just so ethicly and morally wrong its hard to believe any responsible fisherman would use it.

DZ

[Sea Dangles]

Originally Posted by DZ

I could live with using circles for my eel fishing. Probably just alter them a bit.

I do endorse the yoyo ban. This method is just so ethicly and morally wrong its hard to believe any responsible fisherman would use it.

DZ

Morals and ethics DZ? I would guess it is just perspective.Some don't like people fishing at all. Others think they should dictate the methods people use to catch fish.