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Hey Sal. Always good to hear from you!!!!

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Indeed there are a lot of them out there.. for now...
However, there were once a lot of Whiting, Flounder, Mackerel,Weakfish, etc.. Hell, even eels are under pressure, and from what I have seen past few years, Ling are even starting to become scarcer. Fishing pressure is fishing pressure, regardless of the form it takes.

Tournaments are short lived, but for the time they are active, they put intense pressure on localized fish populations.. You may disagree, but in my area I am surrounded by tournaments, and I have seen the damage first hand.. As I said, personally I am not a fan.. I know my opinion is the minority one, and I accept that.
Actually I agree that some restrictions on Sea Bass should be lifted.. I think the size should be 12 inches actually, which on any given trip would give a fisherman plenty to take home. However tournaments just cause too much concentrated fishing pressure in small areas.. This wasn't a problem years ago, but today there are too many great fishermen with too much great equipment that can take an awful lot of fish out of a small area in a short time... bob

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Nice to see you still don't get it??:confused::confused::confused::confused::confu sed:

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Bob
The problem with a 12 inch biscut is there is not enough meat to eat.

Personally I won't keep a SEABASS unless it is a few inches above the current limit. That is just me. In fact I never target SB but will keep them as bicatch if big enough.

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nobody likes a sea bass snob...eat em whole, plenty of meat on them barely legals...for some of us:eek:

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Agreed, .. Problem is we see them going back by the hundreds with thier innards hanging out their mouths... It kills me to know they aren't going to make it, and last few times i didn't see any mates needling them to aid in survivability. I guess that isn't done on inshore trips but I dunno, maybe it should be. I would rather see smaller sea bass get taken home and eaten than going back in to a certain death... Many bottom fishermen even take very small ling simply because they are not going to survive anyway.. Thats one of the problems with any kind of bottom fishing in deep water.. Too many small ones that will die anyway. bob

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Snob? If you knew me you would know that could not be further from the truth! :mad: if you want to keep a 13.5 inch fish to eat more power to YA. It's leagal and I have no problem with it but it's not for me so I CHOOSE not to keep them. Never criticized anyone else for keeping them.

Bob, once again I agree. Throwing those small fish back without venting is a death sentence. One of the reasons I don't target them.

Once again, this is just one humble mans opinion. As stated previously, I will keep the knuckleheads as bicatch as they are tasty bastids:D

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No confusion here Sal. It's "free country" as you put it and someone was asking for thoughts on a tournament. Since sea bassing is one of my favorite fisheries I provided my take on it. Funny, I don't remember seeing a response from you on this subject topic. Perhaps you are in this thread for malintent, which is not why this board is here.

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Sounds good and should be fun, worthy cause. ( You know the old saying about opinions including me).

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lets do it!!!! nobody saved me any buffalo