Longing for the good old days

[bulletbob]

Originally Posted by HerringKing

I do agree with you Bob

we're on the same page... taking a hundred flounder, or 50 10 lb+ weaks, or a hundred fluke was stupid, we didn't know any better, but yet the fish were there year after year, until the commercial fleets both foreign and domestic got out of control... Things like sushi/sashimi became worldwide lusts, and people would pay any price for it... One and 3/4 MILLION bucks was paid for a single Bluefin in Japan last year.. With that kind of money on the line, I fear for any and all fish in the years and decades to come... bob

[bigal427]

Have to agree with you Bob. I don't think keeping a dozen cod is what really hurt the ground fish

[bolt]

I remember:
bamboo poles and dragnets. I remember saving for my first sidewinder lure. I remember backlashes in nylon line..I remember Captain Bills in Whitestone..But my favorite memories are of Captain Wilson Hubbard out of Maderia Beach..In those days you left on Friday and came back Sunday..When the boat pulled in there was a cube van parked with a scale hanging from it..You sold all your amberjack and large groupers and kept the small sweet ones for eating. Wilson Hubbard had his spot on the local television and if you won the pool or had a good catch you got on television..It was on at four in the morning lol..I remember having my whole family up early in the morning to see me on tv...I remember andy pink lol

[SaltLife1980]

My great grand father ran a charter boat out of PP in the 50's.. Tillie Sport Fishing.. it was a wooden 35 footer cabin cruiser that he built by hand.. My grandmother tells me stories of him taking people out fishing... Catch and catch until the boat was full of all kinds of fish..

[kurtisb]

Originally Posted by kmaty

I only wish people can read what goes through my head when this stuff comes up! One day il sit down and right it all down and blast it with a ten pg post! Not directed personaly at this post just the topic of overfishing regulations and so on! We need to put some footwork in and thats the bottom line not just us comercial guys to. But us rec guys aint no garden of roses either! The oceans like if you gave me acess to a bank account with a hundred billion dollars in it...sure it grows with iinterest...but i know and you know dam well it would come out faster than it would grow! Amd eventually there's none

kmaty I like your analogy. We have to keep the withdrawals below the interest. Nicely said.