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  1. No, an immature fish is not an immature fish. It all depends on the life history of the fish involved. And the fact that a bass doesn't remain in Maryland waters is immaterial. It is likely to remain in inshore waters, where it is still vulnerable to fishing activity, as an adult, unlike a red drum that escapes offshore. Whether a fish dies in Maryland or elsewhere is irrelevant. The question that matters is how that removal impacts the striped bass stock.
  2. No. But redfish have a different life history than do striped bass, and are managed accordingly. Management measures must be tailored to the needs of the fish. One approach is not suitable for all. For most of the year, adult redfish are offshore, with the bulk of the adult population not readily accessible to anglers. Adult bass, for the most part, remain in state waters, making fishing mortality a more appropriate management standard than escapement.
  3. I've heard of one or two showing up in Shinnecock Bay, but like many folks in that part of Long Island, they are merely summer residents--although unlike the terrestruial invasives, they don't go home when water temperatures drop, but just end up dying instead.
  4. New York regulations explicitly allow catch and rlease fishing during the closed striped bass season
  5. Probably for the best. If the business was already underwater from last season, merely clearing the existing debt wouldn't assure long-term survival. Most likely, the same problems that led to the current situation would recur, and in another year the shop would be in the same place that it is today. Rent won't get any cheaper, lodging prices will continue to climb, and there won't be any greater number of bass drawing anglers to Montauk this season. Sometimes, it's just better to accept the fact that the world has moved on.
  6. Better to avoid bait, because it ups the odds of deeply hooking a fish that, even if of legal size, you have to release because of the closed season. As others have noted, bucktails and soft plastics, fished slowly, work at this time of year. Think outgoing tide running out of mud-bottomed shallows that are readily warmed by the sun.
  7. I berlieve that the fish they're paying the bounties on is the Columbia pikeminnow, formerly known as squawfish. And yes, some folks are making six figures just by fishing and killing invasives.
  8. Agreed. Ive been a member for a few years. Friendly crowd, with a number of club-led trips that allow members to fish together and get to know one another. Good speakers at the meetings.
  9. I haven't gone for the past couple of years, but probably will go this Saturday. There have been some very good seminars in the past. Not particularly excited about this year's speakers, although I know a couple of them pretty well and might stop by to BS, but they're still probably good enough to be worth hearing. Not sure why they staggered the speakers' times the way they did, with one room starting on the hour, one on the quater-hour, one on the half-hour. Makes it hard to move from room to room and catch the entire talk.
  10. Because they can move in from elsewhere. Fish are limited to river systems. On the other hand, look how unrestricted hunting, using much more primitive equipment than we have today, impacted the gray wolf, eastern elk, eastern cougar, American bison, Eskimo curlew, Labrador duck, great auk, Stellers sea cow, Caribbean monk seals, etc. Not to mention Atlantic sturgeon, eastern brook trout, Atlantic halibut, white and Atlantic blue marlin, dusky shark, and others which are still holding on, but not doing well. A serious eradication program could, at worst, knock sown numbers to a less threatening level.
  11. That would probably worki, but might not even be necessary. One of the theories is that they were introduced to U.S. waters because they were a favorite food fish in their native waters, and folks who moved here from there wanted to have them locally available. So open up a commerrcial fishery. No bag limits, no size limits, no seasons, so that folks could sell them to either general or ethnic markets. Hook and line, bowfishing, hand spears, and nets if they are appropriate to the waters (given that snakeheads like cover, the latter might prove problematic, although in some situations, like spawning-season females, a small seine might be feasible). I suspect that would get the population under controlk pretty quickly,.
  12. There's nothing inconsistent with what he's saying. I don't have any snakeheads in my local waters, but if I did, I would certaionly try to catch one on a fly. If I was successful, I would then kill the invasive, either by taking it home to eat or by feeding it to the raccoons, either way in compliance with local laws.
  13. Don't know where you're fishing, but I've been bucktailing bass from boats in western Long Island Sound for well over 50 years, and find that for that typie of fishing--drifting and casting to boulder fields, around sod banks, and to submerged structure--a 5/8 or 3/4 ounce bucktail with an "upperman"-style or lima bean head is the most useful size/style. I also catch a lot of weakfish on it (along with bluefish, bass, fluke and other non-targeted species) casting and letting the bucktail sink to the bottom, and then retrieving it back to the boat low and slow, in the deeper channels crossing Long Island's Great South Bay. The laterally flattened, Upperman-style jigs are hard to find, but I understand that Dan Tinman, who can be contacted on this site, makes a good one (and will probably be ordering some for him when I run out of my current stock).
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