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Originally Posted by Angler Paul
NJ has the most fluke and the most fluke fishermen. A higher percentage of our fishing trips target fluke than any other state. Still we are forced to have a shorter season than almost all the other states. In many of the more recent years our traditional early spring and late fall fishing has been taken away from us while other states are open year round. How is that fair?
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Fair!?!?!? If it weren't for NY's strict regulations your fluke season would suck balls like it used to.
Circa 1996 the fluke fish sucked so bad that a pool fish would go 3lbs, but because of NY regulations NJ benefited in the rebound of the fluke fishery, so how do you think you guys have more fluke fishermen? Then move to 1999 and that was an all out suck fest or fluke fishing. Then they started to implement HARD fluke regulations.
You guys in NJ did nothing in the way of regulating, you people were bitching when you were able to keep 8 fish per person at 18" while us in NY were at 2 at 21".
Then you are bitching about a shorter season well you guys do that to yourselves, and the South Jersey guys really screwed you guys by giving up 3 fish for a 1/2 an inch.
Just an FYI I have been around for a long time and have heard a lot of things, and your state is the only state that allows the harvesting of bunker commercially and fish pots on reefs and roller gear on reefs and you have the audacity to say you deserve a longer fishing season.
You seem like a really greedy person.
