I agree…i’d much rather have a decent chance of catching a 15-20lb fish. I doubt that most people are eating striper on a daily basis(if so,that is impressive). I’m no liberal, but I do appreciate seeing a 10-15 year old fish when they pop up. Would rather clean another 21" fish for the extra meat. Just a personal preference though; dont have a problem if others keep them.
No, I don’t think that would make you a liberal, in fact, if you consider the original meaning of conservative—to conserve, you’re right in line.
Very True…sorry, didn’t mean jump into politics : ). May have to start a whole new board for that. Lol
Seems to me like a slot would work well on Murray. More so these days now that the fish kills seem to be more under control…something like 21" - 26/28" or so. Those of us who like to eat them sometimes would be able to keep some good eating size fish, but it would assure the bigger ones would all get released(except in the summer). There’s always an exception, but most of the time when you catch one over that size these days you also would have keepers as well under that anyway.
Only downside I can think of is I’m not sure how tournaments would work unless they came up with some way to verify the size of fish before being released? I would think even with fish in striper tubes you would would still be “in posession”. Could always only count fish in the slot like redfish tx’s, but that would take away the fun of trying to catch a “big one”.
'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
FS90 Suzuki
Most of these tx that target big fish are usually low creel tx’s. In the SBCC it’s only a 2 fish weigh in. I would say everyone always fishes at least 2 people. That gives you 4 fish to choose from over say 26-28" in lakes with upper slots and that’s if your not using tubes. But 95%+ of these people are running tubes anyway and are able to cull the fish they need.
Some people say the tubes don’t work but if you have ever seen a weigh in with live striper they are very healthy sometimes hard to handle.
“Sea~N~Stripes”
21’ Hewes Craft Custom
115 Evinrude
I only fished on tournament with tubes on the boat and the tubes killed the fish:stuck_out_tongue:
Wellcraft V-20 sportfish with a 200 Evinrude
I will admit Tom; that was my fault. I killed that fish. Ha. I do a little better now. I suffocated that fish by not changing the water and letting the gases escape by locking them in with that towel… Couple Weeks ago we had fish in and out of the tubes. One of the 2 we weighed in was in the tube from 7am till 430pm and tried to jump off the scale then…lol…
“Sea~N~Stripes”
21’ Hewes Craft Custom
115 Evinrude
Not a tournament person but what about a tournament issued or approved measuring device and a camera? I have found that the smaller fish of other species taste much better than the “big un’s”. If looking for a trophy; scales, tape measure and a camera will get you the same mount that killing the fish will.