POSSIBLE changes to STRIPED BASS fishery

[hammer4reel]

Originally Posted by kmaty

good to hear you say that!!!

Here's one thing thay maybe its just my thinking but please someone explain to me how a slot at 24 or what ever would be benificial? If you take a xxinch fish when its xxinches it never grows to maturity and is dead kinda rendered useless it would never spawn now i also belive that some opinions want the slots back b.c they cant catch a bass over the 28in mark i typicaly dont eat them but im sure the little ones have to taste better than the big red meated cows but whats guna happen right off the gate is a thousand people will catch a thousand fish and bam its a mess

It would limit the amount of fish taken daily.
right now when fishing is easiest in the spring , there are very few small bass caught. so in essence it would limit you to taking one breeder size bass as the less than 28" fish arent being caught.



I also think that as a resource that the enjoyment and hooting and hollering that goes on when a big fish is caught far out weighs the pleasure at the dinner table.
Yet striped bass are good eating fish , and eating some of the smaller fish many would still get to enjoy them without a continued crushing blow to the brood stock

Then in the fall when there are alot of smaller bass around it would still pretty much limit you to one fish a day as there arent as many Big bass around.

the other thought is that it spreads the catch over many different year classes of bass.

and that smaller bass take much less time to be replaced in the fishery.

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