People Keeping Fish Negative Posts

[Capt. Debbie]

Yes, but is it cooked PROPERLY is what we need to know! LOL

Originally Posted by Flygaff

Every fish I keep, be it Fluke, Sea Bass, Tuna, or Shark is eaten. Nothing is wasted.

[Flygaff]

Originally Posted by Capt. Frank

Yes, but is it cooked PROPERLY is what we need to know! LOL

Fried-Grilled-Steamed & Sushi

[hammer4reel]

Originally Posted by SPEARFISH

It's OK to post a pic of a pile of seabass, porgies, ling etc... or a limit of fluke, but post a pic of a bass and everyone gets their panties in a bunch. I never could understand it.

This fish all take 4/5 years to replace . Most big bass are pushing over 20/25

[reason162]

Originally Posted by SPEARFISH

It's OK to post a pic of a pile of seabass, porgies, ling etc... or a limit of fluke, but post a pic of a bass and everyone gets their panties in a bunch. I never could understand it.

Meat fish vs game fish, what's so hard to understand?

Gerry, your site your rules, but I will log my mild objection for banning even polite expressions of regret over the killing of big breeders. Also, for the chest-beaters...they receive a lot more accolades across social media for releasing big fish...they won't know that if people are forced to only say nice things (or nothing at all) about bloody dock shots.

[bunker dunker]

if you want to let your fish go great,if you don't great.its that simple

[Gerry Zagorski]

Originally Posted by reason162

Meat fish vs game fish, what's so hard to understand?

Gerry, your site your rules, but I will log my mild objection for banning even polite expressions of regret over the killing of big breeders. Also, for the chest-beaters...they receive a lot more accolades across social media for releasing big fish...they won't know that if people are forced to only say nice things (or nothing at all) about bloody dock shots.

Your mild objection is duly noted... I too encourage catch and release but there are a few issues with voicing opinions on other people's posts and I need to have some cut and dry rules... We know responses to other people's posts causes a flame war here since it is an emotionally charged issue and even a mild encouragement like "you might think about releasing fish for the future" or "was that fish released" solicits emotional responses back and forth and causes a train wreck. I don't care to deal with that here so IMO best to keep it off entirely.

If you want to encourage people, lead by example..... A lot of people here post photos and are careful to say "released to fight another day" or whatever... And yes they do get some well deserved nice responses. However, the people who would have kept that fish aren't responding to those posts with "are you some sort of tree hugger releasing that fish"

I think you're all smart enough to know what I'm up against here and appreciate you all following the rules..

[Rocky]

The only time I will usually chime in is when a person post a pic of a fat cow, lip hung that they said was released.

If you want to keep a legal fish fine but, if you want to release a fish successfully please do your homework and learn how to do it properly.

[saltfisherman]

Give it a month or two from now and you’ll see the thread question, why doesn’t anyone post fishing reports? Now you know why, just remember a thread like this and the berating a person receives for posting a report of kept fish.

Regulations are such that the number of fish you’re able to keep continues to decline, be by size limits or numbers of a fish that exists. Now that a person does catch a fish of size that they are able to keep and they get grief.

[Gerry Zagorski]

Originally Posted by saltfisherman

Give it a month or two from now and you’ll see the thread question, why doesn’t anyone post fishing reports? Now you know why, just remember a thread like this and the berating a person receives for posting a report of kept fish.

Regulations are such that the number of fish you’re able to keep continues to decline, be by size limits or numbers of a fish that exists. Now that a person does catch a fish of size that they are able to keep and they get grief.

Exactly salt..... We want to encourage people to fish and post here, not discourage them....

[hammer4reel]

Originally Posted by Gerry Zagorski

Exactly salt..... We want to encourage people to fish and post here, not discourage them....

Keep taking fish during the spawn and watch NJ follow suit with all the southern states and CLOSE the season .

It’s time for a little common sense already before we don’t have anything to fish for and hence no reports being made .

IMO. We shouldn’t be fishing for Any fish during their spawn . And no one wants to striper fish as much as I do.

Were only hurting ourselves .

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I will almost bet in the near future you see a rule change that once a limit is met fishing has to stop for that species .

How many guys will be in business if you get to catch one fish and then have to go in ?