Striped bass busts gone wild !!

[bigfishbob]

Obviously intently fishing for stripers in Federal waters is WRONG. However in Northern Jersey it is common place for the fleet to move north along the coast in search of feeding fish. Once up around the sandy hook area that search sometimes continues on East to the Rockaway NY area. Then at days end rather than taking a GPS heading for home the entire charter, party, and pleasure boat fleet needs to head for Staten Island, and then South along the Jersey coast. Effectively taking two sides of the triangle, all because of law enforcement patrols on the pretense of National security. I am sorry but when a party boat with a hailing port on her stern reads Point Pleasant, Belmar or Brielle and has posted hours of 7AM- 3PM is stopped and boarded at 2:30 PM and then issued summons's for having stripers in federal waters that is TOTAL B.S. in my book! So one needs further information to condone some of these incidents which completely disregard common sense.