Keeping fish?

[Christian]

i kept about a 1/2 dozen bass. like all around 36" fish.
kept maybe around a dozen bluefish. 2 trophys, the rest were like 2 pound eaters.

i eat em, and i have some buddies i work with that i basically fed for a couple weeks this summer with bass and bluefish. these dudes go insane over bluefish.

if i have a fish thats legal to keep, and it has a fatal injury, im keeping it, even if its a bloo.

[Diggin Jiggin]

I think I've kept maybe half a dozen fish this year. One was upper twenties but the rest were probably teen sized fish.

I eat the first keeper of the year, and then usually one somewhere in the middle, and one at the end for the freezer. Plus I've kept 2 or 3 fish for friends/family.

I used to feel really guilty about keeping a fish, but reading&hearing about what the commercial take is & bykill from the trawlers and all the other crap that's going on, I'm not so worried about the effect of the few that I take anymore.

[seabass]

just ate a bowl of striper chowda, I only keep what my family will eat.

[TheRattBoy]

I brought home two stripers and two blues so far this year , all others set free...

[BigFish]

In a typical season maybe 2 or 3.....only kept 2 so far this year!

[afterhours]

one so far and one more soon.

[macojoe]

I keep maybe 6 Bass they are not my favorite, I love Blues more! But I only like them freash, so only what I can eat in a couple of days.

Now Fluke on the other hand, I keep all I can get (with in the law) and stock the freezer for the winter months!!

[striprman]

I love striper fishing, but really like going for black sea bass(and 'togs) at Clevelands Ledge and Bird Island when my brother takes his boat out that way. Black sea bass, 'togs and fluke....hmmm I'm hungry now