If thats the case, this season will be no different, and people will be bitching again. Ive seen alot of awful and illegal nuts go on for a long time. As soon as money is involved, things change faster than you can blink an eye. Hell they may be using this just as an excuse to end commercial fishing there.
Will, that reminds me of a situation we used to have our here on the Great Lakes in Michigan when I was in college. People were snagging salmon and trout on their spawning runs, cutting them open, removing the eggs to sell on the open market and dumping the carcases back into the water. Now I realize the kings and cohos die anyway, but it was not limited to the salmon. But yeah when money is involved...
I have never fished the canal and do not plan to anytime soon. With that said, it will now make it VERY easy for the EPO's to enforce it since it's a recreational guys, every day and night of the week. Now, that's if the EPO's decide to show their faces.
No sport in it? But having a boat with every fish finding electronic circling groups of other boats because someone hooked up would be more sport? Not everyone has a boat, infact most dont
Haha in over a decade there I was checked 1x.
Yoyo-ing bunker and killing small bass doing it is not sporting. It's funny how many people know absolutely nothing about commercial fishing for striped bass.
its all bite chasers. I have commercially fished Chatham and ccb for years and we call it the mosquito fleet. they would gaff everything regardless of size. it gets brutal. ill dig into my old phone and look for the photos of the litteral 700+ boat fleet 3 miles east of Chatham from 2010 to 2016
Oh I remember those days vividly, mainly because the striper fishing was WAY better back then. I remember when the stripers would feed on the surface in the canal every morning. Or when I could find fish by riding the canal listening for tail slaps at night. Or the spots that always had schoolies. In the earlier years I went 3 years without getting skunked having always known where to catch a quick schoolie or 7. I miss those days...or the days where a handful of us would be out all night fishing in tropical storms that came close by. I miss the place terribly but it isnt what it was and I'll be long dead before I accidentally give up my spots and when I fish them. The last 30lber I landed there I got swarmed by over 50 people. F that.
Sounds like they need to just enforce the law but are taking the easy way out. If the com guys aren't the problem this won't stop the issues