[redpill75]

Or maybe I'm just pissed cuz I got skunked last night...

I was fishing the jetty in the western sound, incoming. I couldn't fish the spot i wanted at the tip of the jetty facing the bridge since 2 dudes were already setup in front of me. To make things a little more frustrating, was the fact they had 4 sticks cast in different directions... severely limiting where i could cast...but whatever i was using cut bait so, i choose a spot and hit it.

i got a couple of hits, small bluefish chomping at my bunker chunk... i noticed the dudes using mackeral i think... and as I thought about it...bang they get hit and pulled a nice ****tail blue. good for them :/ i know its a little early for the fall run but i'm always hopeful for bass.

afterwards it was very slow to no hits, at end of the incoming... my last 15 minutes of fishing, they get hit by a 12" bass... i noticed they had trouble de-hooking so i shed some light from my small flashlight... i ask them "striped bass?" .. they reply.. "yes"... im like "its a baby you need help de-hooking... a keeper is 28 inches"

not even a thank you for the light or a response...they completely ignore me as if they didn't speak english and proceeded to gut the fish to keep it.

i reeled in and left.

 

[652024]

yeah you got the right to be mad i would have cut thier lines
but thats me

 

[trafik]

Its always annoying when you obey the rules and someone else doesn't. And there is always someone that feels the rules don't apply to them.

Keeping it was wrong, but maybe it was unlikely to survive or more likely, they were food fishing. Its been my experience that when people are trying to put food on the table, the rules go out the window.

 

[redpill75]

thanks for your peace of mind guys...

i thought about if they were food fishing, but i don't believe it... because i fish for food too, i catch a keeper and i go home to eat. these guys caught a nice bluefish and got greedy :/

 

[FishFooler]

My Daddy taught me........

If you kill it, you eat it.

 

[PtJudeRI]

FishFooler wrote:
If you kill it, you eat it.

If you can dehook it and let it go, do that and be responsible....

You are very correct to be mad about this... People like that only add to the problems that we are having with our fisheries...

 

[Nikoli]

Are they there often? If so a call to DEC without specifics might help. Usually the mere presence of authority is enough to deter.

 

[fish4me]

The fishing regs are what the fishing regs are. Whether its for food or not.


And for the speeding analogy, yes, I drive 65.

 

[MakoMike]

A tiny piece of that bass belonged to you a little more belongs to all of us. They stole it from you.

 

[FischerMan21]

i keep the DEC number in my phone just in case. I find that even if people don?t speak English (most of the time its just a convenient excuse) they seem to understand the words ?im calling the DEC.? i even had one guy tell me that he didn?t understand what I was saying, when I said ?im calling the DEC? he seemed to find the words to tell me what he thought of me as a person and his english seemed fine to me. The bottom line is that ignorance is not an excuse and while it may suck to throw back a fish that is not going to make it, it?s the law. That fish will become a meal for some other fish or a bird.

 

[fishon2407]

As an angler that obeys the rules,you should be mad.Some people are a$$holes and do sh!t like that with out even a second thought cause they are inconciderate to the people that obey the rules.Hey,maybe next time one of them may take a sinker to the brain

.What comes around.........

1-800-tips-dec

This post edited by fishon2407 03:25 PM 08/13/2008

 

[BASSSURF]

you should be mad. When possible, keep the number of the dec with you. Even if it is going to die, fish crabs, birds can all still eat it. It won go to waste even if it does die.

 

[SORTIE]

why is it that the rulebreakers never speak english?

 

[MakoMike]

SORTIE wrote:
why is it that the rulebreakers never speak english?

Shouldn't that be "refuse to speak English"?

 

[SORTIE]

MakoMike wrote:
SORTIE wrote:
why is it that the rulebreakers never speak english?

Shouldn't that be "refuse to speak English"?how about 'refuse to acknowledge that they comprehend and speak English'

 

[boloranks]

if the fish was gut hook and was hurt, and would not survive if it was release, keep it and eat it if the dec caught you on the way out tough luck you just got busted, some times we just have to let these simple thing goes by , its not the end orf the world gosh. worst things is going on in our waters . peace.

 

[rpsurf5]

Of course you should be mad , I am mad just reading this , what they did is against the law and if everyone kept short fish there would be no bigger fish around.

Call the DEC next time that happens.

 

[644301]

DEC

1 800 DEC-TIPP
They can assist you at that number for a variety of reasons...

This post edited by DVW6302 04:40 PM 08/13/2008

 

[FishFooler]

Laws are laws and ethics are ethics....

Let's not confuse the two. Is it illegal to bring a bleeding, gut-hooked, short fish home to feed your family? Yes, but is it un-ethical? I dunno about that. Personally, I feel much more guilty feeding that fish to the crabs. BTW, before you guys start judging me for playing devils advocate, let me tell you a few things about me. I don't own a boat and in 25 years of striper fishing from shore I've caught only 6 fish over 30 lbs. Every single one went back unharmed even though I love grilled striper. Last summer I caught a largemouth that according to length/girth calculators was between 8 and 9 lbs. I didn't have a camera and it went back in the lake unharmed even though I would have got a lifetimes worth of bragging if I kept it. You wanna judge someone a law breaker for taking home a gut hooked short fish? Fine, but save us all your ethical judgments.

 

[movetheboat]

Hey, maybe they don't have a frying pan over 12 inches....ever think of that huh? did ya?