1/3 cut to sea bass. This is what our sea bass season could look like

[snapperbluefish101]

Option 3 does not seem bad. Someone mentioned in the other post that we do not need a spring season and that does not seem very irrational, as there is Winter Flounder, Ling, Bluefish, Stripers, Cod, Pollock, and Fluke to be caught then. I also like the idea of a 14" size limit. I like to keep Sea Bass whole and use up all the meat on the fish. The bigger the fish, the more meat for the grill or oven. I think fares on the charter or party boats should keep a majority of their BSB whole then fillet 'em all. Less waste I believe. You get more bang for ya buck.

Any thoughts?

[Castaway]

Why does every option include 2 months of 15 bag limit in the winter when 90% of us don't target them that time of year!? I understand there are a few head boats that go but almost the whole season in November and December? Total bulls**t!

[frugalfisherman]

The more they tighten the rules the more I enjoy breaking them.

[Capt Joe]

Originally Posted by frugalfisherman

The more they tighten the rules the more I enjoy breaking them.

Only one problem Bruce, the yerkoff fishing next to you with his cell phone dialed in to Fish and Game. You know the guy...Jim Goodytwoshoes, saving the world from the rest of us.

Not going to release decent size fish anymore to subsidize commercial fisheries and retail interests so they can charge $20 lb for undersized fish at the market. And two flounder a person for flounder when for all practical purposes the season has been closed for about the last five years, tell me why that fishery isn't rebuilt or are commercial guys still destroying it with offshore dragging. For the amount of eggs each flounder lays every year if that fishery isn't completely rebuilt than the only reason is they're being pounded offshore by draggers. Every HUGE winter flounder we catch in the mud hole during summer trips this year is going in the cooler. Why should we spend $150 to $200 a trip only to let fish go so we can buy smaller ones at retail for $20 a pound! Government is stealing our share of a public resource and profiting form it, it's that simple. Sea bass, any good size fish is being filleted for a decent meal. When they start allocating the quotas properly and we stop seeing small whiting, flounder, even swordfish and sharks on ice at Shop Rite, Kings and any retail outlet, I'll start playing by the rules but until then I'll make the rules. Have never kept small fish out of respect for the fishery but these reduced limits and shorter or closed seasons are entirely out of hand. Recreational gives a little more every year and every year more and more of our share gets allocated to commercial interests. And how many more reports do we have to see where hudreds of thousands of pounds of stripers or fluke are found illegally being harvested and sold on the black market by commercial guys. Every rule is at the expense of the recreational angler and for the profit of politicians and commercial concerns.

I'm done! I'll never take more than my family can eat and do not keep small fish....those are the only rules that matter for '15. Other than that it's open season.

[tuna john]

We all complain, hopefully everyone sent in comments and letters. It all comes down to using bsht mrip data. We need to get the crap data tossed and things will turn around when real estimates are used and not make believe.

[dales529]

Originally Posted by tuna john

We all complain, hopefully everyone sent in comments and letters. It all comes down to using bsht mrip data. We need to get the crap data tossed and things will turn around when real estimates are used and not make believe.

Give this man a cigar! Dead on TJ

[Capt Sal]

Originally Posted by snapperbluefish101

Option 3 does not seem bad. Someone mentioned in the other post that we do not need a spring season and that does not seem very irrational, as there is Winter Flounder, Ling, Bluefish, Stripers, Cod, Pollock, and Fluke to be caught then. I also like the idea of a 14" size limit. I like to keep Sea Bass whole and use up all the meat on the fish. The bigger the fish, the more meat for the grill or oven. I think fares on the charter or party boats should keep a majority of their BSB whole then fillet 'em all. Less waste I believe. You get more bang for ya buck.

Any thoughts?

How will that help the for hire boats son?

[snapperbluefish101]

Originally Posted by Capt Sal

How will that help the for hire boats son?

There is nothing wrong with the bottom Party boats that fish for Sea Bass in the Spring to instead keep on Ling and Codfishing. Seems like a pretty tasty alternative... Cod and Ling fishing should be good in May and June.

[tautog]

Cod stock is is very bad shape and few ling have been seen since last October. Sea bass are recovered so we should go back to the liberal limits we were promised.