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  1. Does anyone have a swim video of a banana plug working? What are these plugs supposed to do traditionally?
  2. I wish they were my plugs. I took the photos from the collectors thread.
  3. I know the fish probably don't care but I am a fan of the subdued, off white, slightly yellowed hue on danny's white plugs. I'm almost sure this is just age on his top coat but, does anyone have a way to mimic this color? See photos
  4. The organized group of the recreational surf community has been doing this for years. Willy Young's (may he RIP) name comes to mind among others. So many trips to Albany etc. and nothing.*
  5. That NY meeting was a joke. All of the public comment and advocacy campaigns by the die hard stripers forever people fall to deaf ears. We can write as many letters as we want but they do go into the meetings with their mind made up its sad. I agree wholeheartedly with your comments regarding organization of recreational fisherman. Everyone says we can't organize or do what we have to do to get representation. As with everything else in life follow the money. Until the ASMFC is done having big time brunch with commercial interests (and I don't just mean commercial fisherman, talking pure economy and capitalism here) then nothing will change. All of these meetings are under the radar and done in secret. The minds of these ASMFC cronies are made up by 1pm after a few drinks. Your heartfelt speech at a meeting isn't going to change a thing. It is an incredibly corrupt system for everyone involved, the reps, the scientists and the people who publish information for them.
  6. In terms of spawning success and recruitment the ecological issues are more so to blame than I think anyone is willing to admit. The issue is, the ecological issues will never be fixed. Pollution of waterways and mega industrialization are a product of human population which isn't going away. In terms of population available to to catch the problem comes down to a few things. 1. The people finalizing the rules have much more commercial support then they will ever publish. 2. The people finalizing the rules have no intention of considering your public comments (keep in mind, their emergency 28"-31" regulation was done without ANY public input). 3. The goal of any fishery management plan is to distribute and then redistribute the resource so that all parties involved can have the best shot at accessing the resource. ** If recreational surfcasters go forward and say "I will stop fishing, or I will handicap myself by using circle hooks" etc. that means their portion of the resource is now available as free real estate for another sector that hasn't made those same compromises. What's the solution here? I don't think there is one. The people online who are romanticizing catch and release, handling fish with the utmost of care and slowly having a fish swim out of their hands into a bubble weed boulder field are shortsighted in the fact that if you aren't killing the fish, someone else is. Just go offshore from Montauk, or any long island port and see who is actually following rules. This isn't a romance novel. The faster we get to absolute zero the faster the problem will be fixed.
  7. Misery loves company. Lets see if the ASMFC will do their job.
  8. With Fred Golofaro sadly passed so has the relationship with the fisherman magazine and a lot of these small local shops. Unfortunately, the magazine has sold out to bigger name vendors and interests.
  9. No one should trust NYS with any of the money from this proposal going to the rightful place.
  10. This is J&H tackle in a nutshell. All of the stuff they push is re-branded from that exact site.
  11. Not a chance. They didn't before and they certainly won't now.
  12. 8 & Bait

    Eeling

    Inline circles and they still swallow every one. Amazing how people find it acceptable to be "hooking 75% of the hits they get".
  13. Sounds like these were the same guys responsible for publishing COVID case numbers in March 2020. This is a total joke. Start killing the fish no one can argue with the number zero. If it has eyes, it dies. Every idiot involved in this process from NOAA to ASMFC is corrupt. There is no "Shake up" coming from anywhere.
  14. Par for the course from this corrupt useless group of managers.
  15. The fact that there is a "worst" of the droolers means there are others, no? This is exactly the damn problem. The ASMFC is a rag tag corrupt organization. If people actually looked at the research directly instead of blindly agreeing with everything posted to fishing websites and publications something good might actually happen.
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