Why are some talking heads still in denial? I read with some interest Gary Caputi’s recent piece in Outdoor Life, Are Stripers on the Brink Again?I suppose factually, it’s accurate, although it looks like he got some of the year-class info mixed up. For the…
Catch and release mortality isn’t insignificant, but what are we supposed to do? Wow, man … epic weekend. There have been some scary big stripers around the bunker schools off the South Shore of Long Island during the last couple of weeks. Yes, again, I’ve…
What most of us really want is pretty simple, but will that be the message NOAA gets? Earlier this spring, at the behest of some of the talking heads in the angling community, NOAA Fisheries announced that it would create a national recreational fishing policy.…
Keeper stripers showed in good numbers this week, so why the F are we killing them all! Yes, we finally had some good striper fishing this week, which is a darn good thing, as at least for a few days I don’t feel like strangling…
Striped bass is a good example of why the Hastings Bill is just bad I’ve been writing about striped bass an awful lot lately. Because, in case it isn’t really clear at this point, it’s pretty damn important to me as well as most readers…
Commercial fishing is probably the least of our worries During yet another substandard charter last week, I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised when one of my anglers started with the “if the commercial guys weren’t killing all the striped bass” stuff. It always helps…
As the stock continues its downward spiral it’s hard to have confidence it will get better any time soon Admitting this is without a doubt bad for business, but let me be frank: The striped bass fishing so far this spring just sucks. Yes, I’m…
A new temporary rule implemented by NOAA Fisheries last week says we do For the last several years, the bluefin tuna bag limit for the private angler, which has a highly migratory species (HMS) permit, was one fish between 28 inches and 73 inches per…
In general, the status of federally managed stocks is getting better. So why isn’t anyone talking about that? This week, NOAA Fisheries released two reports, Fisheries Economics of the United States 2012 and Status of U.S. Fisheries 2013. Just from perusing the reports it seems…
Why such a proposal isn’t the solution many people think it is If you are a regular reader of this blog, you are probably aware that I’ve touched on the issue of slot limits for striped bass a few times. In case you didn’t already…
