Comments on: Commercial striped bass fishing

By: vicvanexel

vicvanexel — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:35:07 +0000

i agree with all that you have said. my only concern , as a commercial striped bass fisherman, is that the recreational fisherman feel so strongly that the stock is depleted. i completely understand why they feel this way. i was only a recreational striper fisherman for most of my life, and though i found it very enjoyable i also found it frustrating that i rarely caught a “BIG ONE”. I truly felt the population was down too. however, as i was able to get more free time, and a had a little extra money to invest, i decided to try my hand at commercial bass fishing. The first thing i learned was that the big fish were abundant and flourishing, however, i also learned they were not an easy prey. sure, sometimes with the right bait falling on the right school anyone could land one, but normally it was the same guys who were always landing the keepers while the rest of us kept getting shorts and bluefish. as difficult as this was to swallow i came to the realization that i was just not a good fisherman. so i decided to do what i had to do to get better, which involved putting a lot of time , money, and patience into increasing my chances. and sure enough 4 years later i am catching lots of keepers and sometimes even my limit. but it should be noted that i still get frustrated, i have a remarkable fish finder, which is a must for striper fishing, and there are times when i am literally marking thousands of large bass right beneath my boat and i just cant get one to bite. point is, there are plenty of big stripers down there. some guys just cant catch them and instead of realizing that they dont know how to catch them they blame it on the commercial guys, saying they are catching too many and that there are no fish left. this is just plain wrong and unfair. these commercial bass fisherman are more dedicated to the species than anyone, it is there lively hood and something they want there children to be able to do. they invest half the year into preparing for a season which lasts at best 5 weeks. please dont try to take this away from us just because you have yet catch a 30 pounder. trust me they are there, and they are smart, just because you spent $500 on your fancy gear does not mean they will bite on your line though.

By: mikemokr

mikemokr — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:06:55 +0000

Thanks for the comment. I've done some more reading since I initially posted this and now am of the opinion that the biggest problem is not in details of the current harvest of the striped bass (though it still seems silly to have inconsistent regulations up and down the coast for a migratory fish) but in overfishing of their most important food source, menhaden.

By: jb

jb — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:51:29 +0000

The slot of 26-40 inches only protects small, less fecund stripers. Unfortunately, many are under the misconception that fish between 6 and 20 lbs (26-40 inches) are the most productive prime breeders. rules that would prohibit more than one fish per day and rules that would allow fish to become prime breeders before being open to harvest peril would solve the inshore fishery problem. Limits consisting of 36 inches and one fish per angler will absolutely be the answer. It has already been proven.

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