[hammer4reel]

abrasion, with most of the other fisheries commercial fisherman put way more pressure on them than the recreational guys do.
But that is NOT the case with striped bass. there are very few states that allow commercial fishing . ( And NJ doesnt allow it) we put 95% of the pressure on those fish.
a look at any marina fishing for stripers when they are in that spots core area will show you we POUND them hard.
Look at the slaughter boards in Virginia when the bass are stacked up there all winter.
Then again here when the move up the coast.
There are 100 times the boats fishing for them than did 10 years ago.
Mid December there were days there were hundreds of boats bassing along 5 miles of beach.
Just simple math of 4 guys fishing on even just 200 boats is 800 bass at 1 fish per angler when fishing is good a low average of say 16000 pounds of bass.
ADDS up quick.
and actual numbers are probably 5 times that up and down Just our coast here in NJ.

apples to apples how many recs catching 250 bass per season , against 0 fishing comercially in NJ. Who is delusional

Just take 1 charter boat fishing 2 trips a day. catching just 1 fish per angler
12 bass, 7 days a week for 3 months( and most years between spring and fall we get well more time than that)
thats 1080 bass at 20 pound average is over 20000 pounds of bass.
Do you even realize how many charter boats and head boats fish for these fish BESIDES the rest of the recreational fleet ????????




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