If they make the Striped Bass limit one will you still go?

[O'Connor]

I was always told they continue to spawn until they die....a 50 lb fish is not even close to the top end of size for the species...no reason to believe a fish in this class will not successfully spawn vs a 30 lb. Where did you get your information?

[kcritch]

I'd definitely still go....Love the sport of them most of all. Love eatin' them too...I think they are great tasting at any size! 1 fish per day is plenty in my opinion.

[Capt. Debbie]

If you wont go for a 30 inch long striper... obviously 2 10" lon winter flounders must be laughable.

No one fishes for cheap food. That's rediculous.

I fish off the tow boat 10-12 hours a day for many many weekends. Almost everything I catch is C&R. Or I can read a book and not fish?

Which would you do?

[Oasis]

FUNNNNY, how most of comments here is about how no one care to take more than one bass. but when I'm on party boats and fishing is good I see the mate straggling to limit fares from keeping fish and get an accurate numbers of keepers on the boat.
I understand keeping your limit and give away fish to friends and neighbors or to the less fortunate (which a lot of us do), but pay what we pay to go fishing and get a few days that we go home with no fish and then when the fishing is good and we can keep 2 doesn't sound too bad.
lets call it as we see it.

[Ol Pedro]

Oasis , the question was will you still fish if the limit were one Bass . Like you , I would rather have a two Bass limit and have the option to keep two.

[Skolmann]

Russ A. sounds as if he had 1 too many Rusty Nails.

[Capt Sal]

Originally Posted by Skolmann

Russ A. sounds as if he had 1 too many Rusty Nails.

His info is as flawed as fisheries management.Even his size limits in his own state of NY are incorrect.The second bass has to be over 40" not 42".I in no way want to see a one fish limit.If I did not charter I would not be so worried.As for as keeping bass,i kept one all year.The two of us ate half of it.This bass was 32".When I take friends and family we take two fish for six people.

[Irish Jigger]

I usually keep what we will eat or if others ask for fish I will put them in the box. These are the smaller legal fish, I prefer not the 30+lbrs we get in the spring. I fish for fun and not in the business but I can't help but wonder if the "limits++++++" posts, and the pictures of a dock full of cows plus bonus tags are being monitored and viewed on the site by god only knows who and used as a basis for how every boat does daily. I understand it's 100% legal and great advertising but does it hurt more then it helps? Have noticed a lot of the charters on here have scaled back the reports a bit and the photos with piles of fish are gone. Maybee I am being paranoid lol but just food for thought!!

[Ol Pedro]

Russ A., I think that a lot of us on this site do a pretty good job of policing ourselves when it comes to wasting fish. Some of the 6 Pac's do catch their limits and then fish for other species. I haven't been out too many times when the Party boat that I was on had a boat limit. I have jigged as many as twenty short Bass to get one keeper. That being said ,if we do what you suggest shouldn't we just keep the first two Stripers that we catch and go home ? No catch and release just catch and kill ? The 22" Striper that I release has just as good a chance as the 32"er when it isn't gut hooked and netted instead of gaffed . I love catching Stripers and eating them TOO!!! There's nothing like seeing three Bass follow my jig up and fight for it or almost having the rod pulled out of my hands when I'm burning my jig back and that Cow blasts it going the other way. Also no one has mentioned the floaters that local gillnetters have left in the past .