Revised Sea Bass in Feb Poll

[Gerry Zagorski]

Sorry about the false start in the initial post... It's been brought to my attention there are other potential options so lets start this over again...

For those of you who didn't read the first post it looks like there might be an option to open Sea Bass during February... This however could require changing the season at other times which we've had before....

So the question becomes would you change the measures or season in other times of the year to have February. So give up some days in Spring, Summer or Fall/Late Fall or perhaps a 1/2 increase in size making it 13 inches and keep the current season intact...

So please weigh in on this revised poll

[BugEye Chris]

In my opinion a February season would not only benefit some of our local charter and party boats but give people an opportunity to catch some of the largest sea bass of their lives. As we all know February is a very difficult time to fish the offshore wrecks. So the amount of trips that would be happening at that time of year would probably be very limited. And the amount of fish caught during those trips would be offset if our officials would enforce the current laws and keep out of state charter and party boat from fishing in New Jersey waters while our season is still closed.

[Reelron]

Remember back a few years ago when we gave up one fluke to get the size limit 1/2 inch smaller? How is that working out for us now?

Give up nothing!

[Duffman]

I voted first option. Can’t believe people voted to raise it 1/2 inch? Once you give that up you’ll never get it back.

...and a question....IF they open up Feb, hypothetically we have 28 days of fishing. Say we only have 15 days of good weather to fish in the month. Does the gov look at it as 15 days of the season used or they consider we fished all 28 days? If they look at the month as a whole regardless of what we are able to fish we are only screwing ourselves in the worst weather month of the year.

[Bob T.]

Last year the late season was 13", and we got the shorter size back for this year.

[Capt Joe]

Originally Posted by BugEye Chris

In my opinion a February season would not only benefit some of our local charter and party boats but give people an opportunity to catch some of the largest sea bass of their lives. As we all know February is a very difficult time to fish the offshore wrecks. So the amount of trips that would be happening at that time of year would probably be very limited. And the amount of fish caught during those trips would be offset if our officials would enforce the current laws and keep out of state charter and party boat from fishing in New Jersey waters while our season is still closed.

Pipedream. Keep it closed in Feb so we DONT lose in the Spring. Thats the reality factor added in. Ridiculous to open for a couple of boats and the rest lose a month or more in the summer??? You know thats the game that will be played. As far as those *******s are concerned numbers will be based on a full month of fishing they are too stupid to know anything else.

[Jay]

How many trips you actually think will sail in February dead of winter? Don’t give up anything and don’t bother opening it for February.

[Angler Paul]

At tonight's JCAA meeting our member clubs unanimously voted to oppose the opening of sea bass season in February at the cost of losing any days during the regular seasons. We did not discuss options involving raising the size limit or reducing the bag limit.

Personally, I don't care about February. I don't want to lose any days from the main seasons. Even if we went to 13", which I am in favor of, I would prefer to have more days added to the regular seasons rather than opening it in the winter.

Paul Haertel
JCAA Board Member/Past President

[bunker dunker]

x2 Capt Joe,this is a sucker pitch for sure.keep the season the way it is period.

[abbashaya]

Raise size limit 1/2, open February and leave the rest of the seasonal days interact