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Captain Bobby Rice of Reel Deal Fishing Charters captures some underwater footage of blitzing striped bass in the waters of Cape Cod.
Captain Bobby Rice of Reel Deal Fishing Charters captures some underwater footage of blitzing striped bass in the waters of Cape Cod.
This happened back in February.
The thieves employed submerged gill nets, which are approved for taking strippers, but only when properly tended, used on defined dates, and in compliance with catch limits. In this case, however, the poachers caught 20,000 pounds against a daily legal quota of 300 pounds!
The Weekend Sportfisherman has all the gory details along with photos.
Photo: Jeffrey Weeks
WTF is up with the North Carolina DMF?
Taking advantage of a NC Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) decision to allow them back into the ocean, commercial striped bass trawlers off of Oregon Inlet again killed and discarded thousands of striped bass today in a tragic and wasteful repeat of last month’s fish kill.
LINK (Via: The Charlotte Examiner)
Joe Sak's Stripah wins in a landslide. Impressive as hell considering the April competition.
Chum junkie Loren Elliott took this delta pig while hanging with buddy and leading striped bass activist Dave Sellers.