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10-29-2008, 08:14 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
Posts: 7,260
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Do Beach clean ups
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Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey 
Recreational Surfcaster 99.9% C&R
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10-29-2008, 08:17 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: 100 yards from the surf
Posts: 236
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Buy a dozen eels and set them free!
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 Beer is the reason we get up each afternoon.
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10-30-2008, 03:38 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: R.I.
Posts: 515
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Catch and release more often.I kept 2 out of about 20.
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10-30-2008, 07:38 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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For me its limiting unnecessary kills. I kept about 10 fish this year out of several hundred legal fish. Most of the fish I take are incrementally larger as I like to document my biggest fish. In other words if I get a 30# fish, everything goes back unless its substantially bigger than the 30. So forth and so on.
Will likely let my commercial license expire next year too. I've had it for 20 plus years, but have no desire to profit from the sale of fish any longer, not that I was ever a threat to begin with.
Last, and I don't want to sound uppity, I try to scale my tackle and technique towards larger fish. Acres of blitzing schoolies to me usually means a bunch of them will be floating belly up due to puncture wounds and deep hookings as a result of people "padding their numbers". Sure, you can use barbless singles and the like, but I prefer to just leave them be. Same thing goes for over wintering fish too. I leave them alone.
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It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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10-30-2008, 08:26 AM
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Also known as OAK
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Westlery, RI
Posts: 10,417
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Bryan
Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
"For once I agree with Spence. UGH. I just hope I don't get the urge to go start buying armani suits to wear in my shop"
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10-30-2008, 11:57 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 2,038
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The Right Stuff
Quote:
Originally Posted by Back Beach
Last, and I don't want to sound uppity, I try to scale my tackle and technique towards larger fish. Acres of blitzing schoolies to me usually means a bunch of them will be floating belly up due to puncture wounds and deep hookings as a result of people "padding their numbers". Sure, you can use barbless singles and the like, but I prefer to just leave them be. Same thing goes for over wintering fish too. I leave them alone.
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