Circle Hook / YoYo Rig Comment Period and Hearings

[stripermaineiac]

LOL same dumb retorick that led to the moratoriums in the 80's. better to do nothing than do anything to save the fishing for the future. Just cause someone else is gonna shut it all down. amazing the red fish and sea trout down south are doing good and amazing how the stripers rebounded in the past. But oooooh lets not do anything cause we're gonna loose it all to the antis.Amazing the decline in numbers of stripers in Maine since the mid 90's.I wonder what happened back then. Oh that's right commercial striper fishing increased LOL.
But your right lets just do nothing like before the government will step in again . Only this time we're at the 2nd strike mark.3rd an we're out.
As far as Stripers Forever goes they kinda sound like the old Stripers Unlimited that Bob Pond founded. Both were and are coastwide organizations working for keeping the fish we all love to chase in the coastal waters an not in a net or floating dead.

[trapperpierre]

retroburn-ing of stocks by recs........and by the way, Bob Pond became a good friend ---we shared -side by side--booth space at the Worchester Sports show for 15 years(he was a giving soul that would share his fantastic tuna salad sandwiches with me-as the show pizza was terrible and not healthy.....sandwiches prepared by the one Ms. Boyd---I have boxed lures he presented to me-signed and dated)....we agreed then & I do know ...that striped bass is a wonderful resource--a multiple use resource......to be utilized in a responsible way..........and...funny..very funny how the rec & charter group is the largest group that ends up with the most dead fish in their nets......

[Sea Flat]

Would an octopus style hook be considered a circle hook?

[trapperpierre]

For every yoyo fatality thare are hundreds, perhaps thousands of light tackle release deaths. Unethical is-the actual methodology of "catch & release"..that kills striped bass with light tackle///i.e. fly rod, spinning, and coventional....beat and wear down to fish beyond recovery......then the smiling release and the C & R dude exclaims-"Live fish live".....with a high percentage of the stripers become crab food...............The DEP should seriously look at mininum gear size--i.e. rods.....line & leader stength--for all C & R fishing............a regulation enforced..........to increase the percentage of stripers to live-after being played to death on light gear. Such a minimum gear size would save untolded striped bass.....get real

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by trapperpierre

Such a minimum gear size would save untolded striped bass.....get real

Anything to back this up?

There is definitely some responsibility on the fisherman for using appropriately sized gear, but it's also not like every person up and down the beach or on boats are using freshwater gear to catch stripers.