Cheeckakoe Posted July 23, 2021 Report Share Posted July 23, 2021 (edited) Boy have I not been paying attention to Fishing Regulations Was On Blue Crab Forum Site, and someone was getting hell for Posting he was using whole Blue Fish heads on some 10 drop lines being over the Limits on the heads. . I came to find out the Limit on Bluefish in Nj is Now 3 a day 5 on a charter boat from the 15 I remember. Are there really people who pay up to $100 to fish on a Party ( Head ) Boat for 3 Fluke or 3 or 5 Bluefish when the bluefish could be from 2 Lbs to 18 lbs. WTF Happened Seriously.. No wonder Sea Robins are becoming popular along with Skate Wings & Dog Fish What next Bergaul Soup . OH I GOT IT A NEW JERSEY SALT WATER FISHING LICENCE Boy Is my grandson going to Jail Oh photo taken 8 yeras ago And no not to eat but for Fluke Bait Edited July 23, 2021 by Cheeckakoe Bluetaildragger, kurazy kracka and jk20a3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post liambrouillette Posted July 23, 2021 Popular Post Report Share Posted July 23, 2021 Bluefish are considered threatened, not surprised after seeing how people have been treating them like a limitless resource forever. PSeggs, ecks, Heavy Hooksetter and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post LowEnd Posted July 23, 2021 Popular Post Report Share Posted July 23, 2021 Nobody seems to care about the blue fish regulations. Had a 2 guys on a jetty with 9 and they landed a 10th. Politely told them the limit is 3 per man. The one guy told me “I don’t care” to which I responded “I know someone who does, I will call him right now”. Took out my phone. He said “give me a break”, to which I said “ You give me attitude and want a break”? ”Get off my jetty now”! They left with all the fish. I called it in, doubt they got caught. Dan Tinman, ridenfish, Irishfire18 and 16 others 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dan Tinman Posted July 23, 2021 Popular Post Report Share Posted July 23, 2021 While I applaud you taking a stand and confronting them, you ran a great risk. You never know when they'll get crazy and come back at you physically. Better to discretely make the call and wait for the right people to do their job. johnysmoke, Skunkoff, fd4mcola and 13 others 16 - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowEnd Posted July 23, 2021 Report Share Posted July 23, 2021 Dan, while they did have a knife to bleed the fish, I was not concerned for my safety. I can get crazy as well and have rolled many times with all sorts of folks and have come out on top more times than not. If more people just spoke up this kind of thing would be in the past. Thank you for your concern, dually noted. While you are right to be discrete as most of you here should be, sometimes I just can’t help myself. johnysmoke, fishunt727, Irishfire18 and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hydraman Posted July 23, 2021 Report Share Posted July 23, 2021 28 mins ago, LowEnd said: Dan, while they did have a knife to bleed the fish, I was not concerned for my safety. I can get crazy as well and have rolled many times with all sorts of folks and have come out on top more times than not. If more people just spoke up this kind of thing would be in the past. Thank you for your concern, dually noted. While you are right to be discrete as most of you here should be, sometimes I just can’t help myself. I say sh-t too. But it don’t change nothing don’t kid yourself. I’m in NY a lot of poachers destroyed the rivers and ocean in the country they come from and don’t have much of a reason or care if they do it now. 55555s, hunter123, plugchucker and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Tinman Posted July 23, 2021 Report Share Posted July 23, 2021 2 hours ago, LowEnd said: Dan, while they did have a knife to bleed the fish, I was not concerned for my safety. I can get crazy as well and have rolled many times with all sorts of folks and have come out on top more times than not. If more people just spoke up this kind of thing would be in the past. Thank you for your concern, dually noted. While you are right to be discrete as most of you here should be, sometimes I just can’t help myself. Again I applaud your attitude and desire to do something but you never know who or what you’re dealing with. They could be drunk or high or just have a bad attitude and you were outnumbered. Thanks for what you did but be careful. PSeggs, Popasilov and Heavy Hooksetter 3 - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowEnd Posted July 24, 2021 Report Share Posted July 24, 2021 Been down this path, several trips to the ER. Sent some people there myself. I was a bouncer in my younger days. But your right, you never know. It’s not so much a desire to do something, I just know that most people are all bark no bite. If you remain silent then those people will continue to do the same thing because they think your scared or don’t care. As far as poaching goes, it’s the ignorant greed that gets me. 40 pounds of blue fish that have been baking in the sun for 4 hours will not get you much.Maybe a stomach ache. Just flat out dumb. Common sense is not so common! hunter123, chisler, Irishfire18 and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popasilov Posted July 24, 2021 Report Share Posted July 24, 2021 2 hours ago, LowEnd said: Common sense is not so common! There is no more common sense at all. PSeggs, Irishfire18 and hunter123 3 Bad day fishing is still much better than good day work. "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him had better take a much closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stryper Snyper Posted July 24, 2021 Report Share Posted July 24, 2021 8 hours ago, Popasilov said: There is no more common sense at all. Went out the door along with etiquette and courtesy. hunter123 and Irishfire18 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimK Posted July 24, 2021 Report Share Posted July 24, 2021 A couple of weeks ago i saw a large party of probable illegal border crossers keeping small blue claws.. Quietly made the call. Officer showed up..did what he had to do.. Also he found they were clamming without a nj shellfish license..busted! hunter123, Bwstriper44, Irishfire18 and 8 others 11 "Russian War Ship.. go f*#k yourself" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Tinman Posted July 24, 2021 Report Share Posted July 24, 2021 33 mins ago, JimK said: A couple of weeks ago i saw a large party of probable illegal border crossers keeping small blue claws.. Quietly made the call. Officer showed up..did what he had to do.. Also he found they were clamming without a nj shellfish license..busted! That's the way to do it. Bwstriper44, gcjeep14, PSeggs and 1 other 4 - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyangler Posted July 24, 2021 Report Share Posted July 24, 2021 I am old enough to recall the 1970s and early 1980s on party boats and the boat handing out 40 or 50 gallon garbage pails or selling burlap onion bags to hold all the blues you would catch. Back then it was usually the Sound but a I recall a few trips on head boats out off of New Rochelle, Captree, Sheepshead, Montauk or NJ ports going out to all the classic spots (drifting the central LIS and offshore to the Tin Can Grounds, Cholera, 17 fathoms, Klondike and others). Day and night trips, speed jigging during the day and bait fishing at night. Sooo many blues caught and kept, no releases back then. We/I would bring too many fish home to eat or freeze (never ended well) so we'd give them to neighbors. At its peak it was a slaughter, especially looked back in hindsight. So ignorant we all were back then, no foresight. And then there was the Boston mackerel fishing in that period..... Kones1, Dan Tinman, richs and 1 other 4 “No nation in history has survived once its borders were destroyed, once its citizenship was rendered no different from mere residence, and once its neighbors with impunity undermined its sovereignty.” - Victor Davis Hanson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSeggs Posted July 24, 2021 Report Share Posted July 24, 2021 17 hours ago, Cheeckakoe said: Boy have I not been paying attention to Fishing Regulations Was On Blue Crab Forum Site, and someone was getting hell for Posting he was using whole Blue Fish heads on some 10 drop lines being over the Limits on the heads. . I came to find out the Limit on Bluefish in Nj is Now 3 a day 5 on a charter boat from the 15 I remember. Are there really people who pay up to $100 to fish on a Party ( Head ) Boat for 3 Fluke or 3 or 5 Bluefish when the bluefish could be from 2 Lbs to 18 lbs. WTF Happened Seriously.. No wonder Sea Robins are becoming popular along with Skate Wings & Dog Fish What next Bergaul Soup . OH I GOT IT A NEW JERSEY SALT WATER FISHING LICENCE Boy Is my grandson going to Jail Oh photo taken 8 yeras ago And no not to eat but for Fluke Bait Now think of the outlash if those were stripers. Blues get no respect. But IMO are just as important, maybe more important to the overall health of the oceans, than stripers. We need to do better. Btw. No disrespect to your kin with his fish, I've done the same myself and with my own children. We (collectively) didn't know any better. But hopefully we will for the future. Dan Tinman, wingsandwater, ridenfish and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Tinman Posted July 24, 2021 Report Share Posted July 24, 2021 Quote Blues get no respect. But IMO are just as important, maybe more important to the overall health of the oceans, than stripers. You're right. All fish play a part in the life cycle of the oceans. Everything that belongs in the oceans should get respect. flyangler, hunter123, JimK and 1 other 4 - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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