[Flounder Pounder]

Called Marine Patrol on a poacher

Fished Gloucester PT. last night and seen a man put an undersized stripper in his cooler. I approached him, gave him the benefit of the doubt and told him his fish was undersized and he needed to release it. The guy gave me some lip and I told him once more, again he ignored me. I then walked to the truck and called the Marine Patrol Hotline and the man showed up in 10 minutes.

As Marine Patrol was walking down the pier, the man kicked the fish over the side in plain view of the officer, really upsetting the officer because he said he wouldn't be able to prosecute without it. This really pissed me off and I said I would go to court to testify. The man was then escorted to his car and issued a citiation. Funny thing was the man admitted he measured the fish and it was 16 inches. The officer said it would be a solid case without the fish, I'll see him in court on August 6th.

 

[hic-lock]

Good work, any idea what he’ll pay for that fish?

 

[ropiv]

I applaud your efforts, Flounder. The more help we can provide to eliminate this type of occurrence, the better off we'll all be.

 

[Guest]

Good job on the turn in...happy to here there was such a quick response from the man. I can't stand those undersized strippers...I only flip them quarters. No singles or 5'ers unless your packin!

Just a suggestion...easy on the racial descriptions. If your going to use it...I think most would prefer Asian to Oriental. Only use the "O" word to describe furniture, etc. Might save you some flack in the future.

 

[PlankCaster]

Flounder,
Glad to hear you care enough to do something when there is a person with such blatent disrespect for our environment. Also glad to hear there was a fast responce. Major props on offering to go all the way through on this by going to court. Bravo.
Tight lines and popped riggers

 

[julesvaughan]

called marine patrol

I am glad that your called resulted in a successful citation. I too called them on tues PM. We were at lynnhaven fishing and had a friend with us who was new to fishing. There were some guys fishing right next to us, and they were catching undersize trout and throwing them into a cooler. Our friend kept asking why my husband was throwing the fish back, and I explained the rules on that kind of fish and showed him the card with the fish regs on it. He asked me if the fish the other guys were putting in their cooler were the same kind my husband was throwing back and I told him yes, and looked up and the guy was looking right at me. So after he caught another one and put it in the cooler, I walked up the pier and called it in. We were very disappointed. 1 1/2 hrs later they left after cutting up some of the trout for shark bait. The officer never showed up. We knew they had kept over 10 undersized trout. I hope in future we'll get a better turn out, even if they have to hire more officers! I would pay a little extra on my license for that.
Jules

 

[8AnBait]

hell yeah

Man I almost called on this skinny kid that fish out at cbbt all the time for cutting up and under sized flound for bait the other day...

 

[profish 1]

You should have kicked his ass in the water after it good job profish 1

 

[Doad]

Feels good to respect authority, doesn't it FP? I mean, without some enforcement of these regulations, there won't be any fishery left pretty soon...

I respect the way you handled yourself and did the right thing, is what I'm trying to say.

Tight lines!

Doad.

 

[Jake Ace]

I'm really glad that Flounder Pounder called them in. I have numbers for several jurisdictions and try to call in everytime that I see anyone keeping any undersized fish.

I think we should all do the same.

THROW MORE / MOST / SOME / ANY / MAYBE A FEW BACK

Jake Ace

 

[Trippolski]

Way to go, I think we all should do that when somebody keeps undersized fish. i can't believe people think they can actually get away with that with no punishment. The bad thing is, some of them do.

 

[freswaterjim]

call patrol

8(---) I agree on the call in with violations but you know if every rod and line poacher were stoped today it would have no impact on fish population.In fact if every rod and line surf and pier fisherperson were stoped from fishing their would be no impact on fish population.The massive fish reduction is beeing caused by the commercial sector and untill the private fisher people organize and stanup to be counted to change the laws ,it will stay that way.the few fish i've seen caught on the piers is pathetic.

 

[Kozlow]

Breaken The Law / Breaken The Law

Good job Flounder Pounder
I call ever time I see someone down here is Breaken The Law.
Everyone should abide by the rules and for those who don't well the call is made. They get what they deserve sometimes . Just don't break the law and fish near me or you or many others on this site.
Just a warning to those LAW BREAKERS

Good Job


P/S
Hey freswaterjim What part of the Burg are you from I am a replant Floridian from the Northills of the Burg.

 

[freswaterjim]

the burgh

kozlow:I'm west of pittsburgh,beaver county,hookstown. fish the ohio river and lake erie.just came back from choptank,gull sandbridge,and hatteras piers total chach 2 crooker 5 perch

 

[emanuel]

Flounder,

Good job. I wish I had the cahones to really stand up to some of these people who just treat the ocean like it was their toilet. I think we should all make it a point to police these piers like they were our own yards. My hat is off to you sir.

 

[Kozlow]

freswaterjim


Good to hear from someone near the Burg. Was up there last month didn't get any fishin in but uasually would fish at Lake Arthur Bassin it and the Slippery Rock Creek up near Portersville.
Use to like those Rainbow and Brownies. Now Im just a OLD SALT. Maybe not so old but don't need any salt on the fish now.
Take care.

 

[gus]

nice work; its up t us all to protect our fishery

 

[skunked]

Cool

Took some balls to do that. Thanks. And your right freswaterjim, we casual fishermen can't hurt the fisheries like the big guys can but every little bit does help. And we should also do out part to move the commercial reg. in a productive direction.

 

[Dr. Bubba]

Good job on the call FP!

But I've got to also comment on something that's come up in this thread. Some of you have the notion that we recs have little or no impact on fish populations, and that simply is NOT true. Coms must report what they catch, so their catch is pretty well documented. What are the MILLIONS of recreational anglers catching on a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly basis??? No one knows for sure. But, we definitely have an impact just by shear numbers of anglers. To think otherwise is to have your head in the sand.

I totally agree though, that there is more need for organization amongst rec anglers in order to have a voice in fishery management decisions.

 

[Mummichog]

I saw a report(striped bass) recently that said Recreational fisherman account for 60% of the catch, commercial the remaining 40%. I believe it...and not just for this specific fish.

During the Shad run this year, I saw many people consistently filling 5 gallon buckets with shad and herring (I called them in). Some returned the next day to do the same thing. Where I fished I often saw approximately 25-100 "bucketeers" out there. Who knows how many were doing the same thing and who knows how many others there are.

No doubt recreational fisherman have a large impact on the fishing populations. Drive to the OBX in October/November and see what hundreds of 4x4s will do to a beach...and many have multiple lines out.

Not to mention the trash people leave behind.

Yes sir, there is a sad day looming on the horizon. And we won't be able to blame the commercials for everything.

Unfortunately we only pay attention to the fish pop. when we stop catching them...too late. 'Course both shad and rock have made a comeback which proves we can make it work. I just hope somebody helps the bluefish soon.

I can see the tv spot now...remember the crying indian?

This time it will be a crying fisherman...