New NY Sea Bass Regs - Are they freakin' kidding?

[Leprechaun]

Three specimens at 16.5", season opens June 23.

Meanwhile NJ regs - 10 fish @ 12.5", season opens May 17. True they have a tight Summer keep limit - when the biggies move way offshore anyway. But back to 10 keepers on Oct. 1.

NY sux, simple as that. And I mean in ALL things important to me.

 

[Roccus7]

Three specimens at 16.5", season opens June 23.

Meanwhile NJ regs - 10 fish @ 12.5", season opens May 17. True they have a tight Summer keep limit - when the biggies move way offshore anyway. But back to 10 keepers on Oct. 1.

NY sux, simple as that. And I mean in ALL things important to me.

NJ never met a fishery they wouldn't exploit...

 

[pequa1]

I gave up fishing for either sea bass or blackfish years ago when I still had the stinkboat but the regs all but required a journey to the deep if one wanted a sure dinner. I never boated a winter flounder on the boat I had bought new in 1999 and started to just launch it when fluke opened. If it weren't for our tiny family here, and that my gubmint pensions aren't taxed by the governor, we would have left this sithole long ago. If you were a shooter you would have all the more reason to hate Newyorkistan.

 

[jpd]

DEC Announces New Recreational Fishing Regulations for Black Sea Bass and Scup

 

[Chinacat]

This is just mind numbing and comical.
SOOO many seabass under 16.5” will be senselessly killed as discard while trying to get to 3 fish. I will target them the 1st week or 2 after the opener then rely on getting them as by catch while fluking

Yet NJ and commercial fisherman can slaughter them????? ????

Now they change scup regs after they’ve already been hammered in the peconics????

 

[Hunter704]

New York fishing regs are getting out of hand then they want to take our hunting rights away what is the avid outdoorsman gonna do.

 

[pequa1]

What many do. Leave Newyorkistan and take our tax-paying selves with us.

 

[Hunter704]

What many do. Leave Newyorkistan and take our tax-paying selves with us.

They don't give us many choices but as many of us have children and grandkids here that were not ready to part with yet

 

[Leprechaun]

Exactly. Wifey not wanting to leave her only grandchild is what keeps me here.

 

[pequa1]

SWMBO's only family is here as well. Plus, my military and government pensions aren't taxed by Albany so there's that.

 

[george]

I have one foot out the door. And trust me they have some screwed up regs in Fl also. I've been back for week and it's nothing but work around here! Im thinking on returning in June next year.

Truth is the number of sea bass I see in the sound is scary. Those things are eating everything. Lobsters don't have a chance of returning as they are their top meal. Could it be impacting the fluke fishery?

The one thing that is always left out of these regs is common sense.

 

[Hunter704]

It’s all insane I can’t believe number of bass around I’m fine with one bass a man but 28” 31” is absurd yesterday alone in area of a 1/4 mile and the state channel is no more then 150/300 yds across my screen was lit with fish no matter where I turned the boat and we only boated one keeper all those juvenile fish were safely released ranging in sizes from as small as 14” up to 27” that’s one small area.

 

[pequa1]

It’s all insane I can’t believe number of bass around I’m fine with one bass a man but 28” 31” is absurd yesterday alone in area of a 1/4 mile and the state channel is no more then 150/300 yds across my screen was lit with fish no matter where I turned the boat and we only boated one keeper all those juvenile fish were safely released ranging in sizes from as small as 14” up to 27” that’s one small area.

Hopefully they will escape the poachers and the comms and provide an honest dinner next year.

 

[Hunter704]

Hopefully they will escape the poachers and the comms and provide an honest dinner next year.

My god the cormorants were in packs of hundreds the other day even saw one come up with either a baby fluke or baby flounder in his mouth between them and seals baby fish don’t stand a chance

 

[pequa1]

I believe in one of the Great Lakes cormorants were or are considered a nuisance and fair game for trap or skeet practice.

 

[Roccus7]

I believe in one of the Great Lakes cormorants were or are considered a nuisance and fair game for trap or skeet practice.

Lake Erie, but there isn't an open season on them. They go into the nesting areas and coat the eggs with an oil that prevents oxygen from getting in so the developing chicks die.

 

[OVERBORED]

Exactly. Wifey not wanting to leave her only grandchild is what keeps me here.

That's what airplanes and FaceTime are for!...... LOLOL

 

[OVERBORED]

Then they wonder why so many guys break the law!

 

[Kona]

I would imagine there will be a lot of fillet and release

 

[OVERBORED]

Yup...... imagine the feeling you would have when you went out and threw back many 3-4lb Sea Bass only to see fish half that size being sold in a local fish market for 16.99.......frustration, anger, etc etc