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Originally Posted by Broad Bill
Thanks for the honest report Capt., very appreciated. You're correct, reports from everyone were of a very off day. Six keepers regardless of the weather on a beautiful September day is atrocious and it's a warning sign of the condition this stock is in. Years past September was the month both in terms of quantity and quality of big fish. Those days are gone.
Regulations need to change, spawn needs to be protected and commercial waste and illicit netting has to be addressed or this type season or worse will become the norm. Management has to start managing and stop exploiting the stock with absolutely senseless short term decisions. The entire recreational minimum has to go, targeting only the breeding stock has to stop, spawn needs to be protected for at least three years in order for this stock to have a chance of being rebuilt. If it's business as usual, we'll be under emergency measures soon and then it's too late and believe me when I say we're already at the doorstep of it being too late now.
Six keepers for 12 fares at the peak of the season, I pray for party and charter boat Captains with the regulations your chosen profession has been handicapped with. Everyone should be absolutely pissed off and up in arms about losing a tremendous resource which rightfully belongs to us all being taken away by politicians, bureaucrats and management bodies with self serving interests. It's an absolute disgrace.
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Broad bill nailed it brother my boat is up for sale soon to follow is fishing gear
