Keepers vs Shorts

[SS]

Is it luck or skill ? I usually do pretty good in the keeper and short department. But seeing a post about only 1 keeper and 25 shorts . Who knows. I figure if I can get fish to hit its just a matter of time to start weeding through the shorts to put fish in the box. Just wondering what everyone else thinks ?

[Fisherman120]

There's definitley some "skill" in consistently catching keepers instead of shorts, but where you fish and time of year certainly affects it too. If you're fishing in the back of Raritan Bay right now in shallow water obviously you won't do as good as someone who knows the Ambrose well... But in June it would've been the complete opposite. I use jigs/gulp exclusively personally and catch approximately a keeper for every 3-4 shorts I catch. Kept a log last year but not this one too annoying to keep recording it.

[SNAPS]

Originally Posted by SS

Is it luck or skill ? I usually do pretty good in the keeper and short department. But seeing a post about only 1 keeper and 25 shorts . Who knows. I figure if I can get fish to hit its just a matter of time to start weeding through the shorts to put fish in the box. Just wondering what everyone else thinks ?

The regs are screwed up we all know it, If your catching 25, 16-17" fish sounds like the fishing to ME is pretty good.

[AndyS]

Want big fluke, use BIG baits.

[SaltLife1980]

Yeah i went to larger baits and started to put more bigger fish in the boat compared to fishing a smaller set up.

[Joey Dah Fish]

Also use a larger hook

[Tony Cav]

Deeper water & rough bottom = larger the average fish