Longing for the good old days

[HerringKing]

Everybody talks about the "old days" where they had no regulations and you kept a dozen 20 lb fish or 3 at a time. Doesn't anyone realize that's part of the problem? Stripers were wiped out before regulations in the 70's and 80's. Everyone has heard the stories about keeping dozen of big tiderunners in burlap bags, now my generation can't find a 5 lb weakfish. Winter flounder aren't around ( except offshore in the summer) even it we had a bigger bag limit.

I think you old timers need to stop bragging about the "old days" and realize that you are part of the problem. You can't keep 20 big reproducing fish in the 1970 and then complain about there not having fish 30-40 years later.

Just my 2 cents