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Originally Posted by AndyS
I have to disagree on some aspects. You talk about people keeping all the large fish ? How many 24" largemouth and 20" smallmouth do you think there are in any given area, then these so called poachers have to catch them, no easy task. People keeping 12lb. pike, again, no easy task.
I actually want people to fish the Raritan river. I want to see trout stocked signs in Bound Brook, maybe the homeless people living under the Queens Bridge will get the message.
I was fishing the Raritan in Bound Brook last night and the kids tearing up the river banks with quads were giving ME dirty looks. I want better access to the river also.
Just because someone reads the site "and lurks" does not make then bad, I lurk on 5 other freshwater sites, does that make me a bad person ? Welcome to the world of the internet and the double edged sword.
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Ppl who keep big fish within the legal limits are by no means poachers...
Larger lakes and fairly long river systems have quite large numbers of 20+" large and smallmouth....It would probably surprise you....While i don't have hard scientific data, i do have manymany yrs. of specifically targeting these larger than average fish.....It gives me a gr8 idea of an areas population, and i do see larger fish taken every yr.....Most ppl have found these lesser known areas via the internet.... I'm not saying that thats a bad thing by any means.....what i am saying is that the more notoriety a given place gets , the better the chances that the fishing will go down hill......RV is a perfect example....While there are many reasons that its gone downhill, the fisherman like you and i know the real reasons and we did'nt need scientific data or exstensive research to know what we know......Its common sense and if we ALL use it more often , our fisheries will only benefit.....
