2024 and 2025 Fluke Options Poll

[Broad Bill]

Originally Posted by reason162

That's a point people seem not to understand - lowering size limits doesn't automatically mean harvesting more males. You could just as easily be killing females without giving them a chance to spawn.

Proportionately yes it does. If you retain fish which it appears you do, how many 18" plus fish have you caught over the last 5 years that were males? I"d bet you could count them on one hand.

[reason162]

Originally Posted by Broad Bill

If you retain fish which it appears you do, how many 18" plus fish have you caught over the last 5 years that were males? I"d bet you could count them on one hand.

I kept one fluke in the last 2 years - caught and released 14 fluke over 6lbs from shore last year, 2 over 7lbs 1 over 8. But I'm not your typical fluke angler - I actually see them as game fish and target them as such

The point is even if you lower the size limit to 16", we'll probably still be seeing majority females retained. Further point is, does it even matter re recruitment. Then we circle back to what you consider unreliable data and what the actual scientific community consider settled science.