Sen. Foley (D-Brookhaven) has introduced S6250, a bill that would repeal NY’s new salt water fishing license and replace it with something that is disingenuously being called a “free” angler registration. (Here’s a link to the legislation if you’d like to take a look yourself: http://open.nysenate.gov/openleg/api/html/bill/S6250). Of course nothing in government is really free. If [...]

Earlier in the week at the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Council 68th Annual Commission, which was held in Newport, RI, the commission voted 8-6 on against opening allowing bigger catches in Chesapeake Bay and elsewhere. In addition, they defeated the proposal to allow states to roll over unused parts of their commercial harvest quota from one year to the next.

ASFMC Denies Increase in Commercial Striped Bass Harvest
Anglers rally to defeat proposal for commercial sector to kill more fish
Coastal Conservation Association commends the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) for denying a proposal to increase the commercial harvest of striped bass at its meeting this week in Newport, Rhode Island. The proposal would have allowed [...]

Addendum II will comprise yet another small but real drain on striped bass
Today is 10/8… It’s 5:00PM and I’m on a train home from the Striped Bass Advisory Panel (AP) meeting. I have to mention that I’ve been awake since 3:00AM and I’m running purely on caffeine at the moment so please excuse the likely [...]

The hammer has fallen and there was NO MERCY!!!! No permit goes 0 for 8 with the bonefishwhisperer….finally shocked the monkey today…started as usual with a big bonefish loss on deep canal edge but today was different and I pushed forward because I wanted a permit for my birthday

I suppose it’s nothing new these days for the fishing community to blame all their troubles on environmentalists, but indeed the intensity of the blame-game has been ramped up in recent years. “Radicals”, “extremists”, “socialists”, “elitists”, “antis” etc… You know… Those people who want to “end all fishing.” Recently, some folks have gone so far to claim that the environmental community is really part of a grand conspiracy by “Big Oil” to abolish all fishing so it can drill wherever and whenever it wants. If would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic.

I could write tens of thousands of words on this, but I’m going to keep it short as the weather is warm and the bass are in, and any editorial might ruin that wonderful feeling spring brings to anglers.   So here’s the skinny, and I’ll try and just stick to the facts (Note: [...]

The Commission’s Atlantic Menhaden Management Board approved the initiation of Draft Addendum IV to Amendment 1 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Menhaden. The Draft Addendum will propose extending the Chesapeake Bay reduction fishery harvest cap for 3 years.

Alexandria, VA – The ASMFC Winter Flounder Management Board approved Addendum I to Amendment 1 the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for the Inshore Stocks of Winter Flounder, establishing harvest reductions for the Gulf of Maine (GOM) and Southern New England/Mid-Atlantic (SNE/MA) inshore stocks (0 to 3 miles).

David Churbuck reviews what he calls “a keeper of a fishing book.” The book is a tremendous look at the Martha’s Vineyard Fishing Derby…