Wondering about the impact of non-commercial angling...

How many and of what variety of fish did you (all) keep in '01?

For me (family of 5) -

1 halibut
1 yellowtail
1 barracuda
1 crappie
3 rockfish
3 corbina
5 trout
20 sand bass
bunch of grunion

3 albies = Very happy friends

Amish Ed
You Can't Catch it again if
it's Dead!

Amish Ed
You can't catch it again if it's dead!

Kept a handful of albies, a couple of YFT, two tails from Clemente, one big WSB, and a few nicer butts. Released some tails (I had a slow year for forks!), all the bass, some legal butts, a couple of smaller albies, and everything else I was lucky enough to catch. Can say I had no freezerburn this year, but still kept myself, family and some friends stoked on fine meals.

Also kept a few albies, 2 yellowtail, 2 legal halibut, one legal WSB, 10 whitefish, a mantis shrimp and 4 smallish bonito which I found out are pretty good if you keep them out of the sun. I released many bass, albies and BIG spanish macks, short WSB and halibut(2 legals), a few rockfish, cabezon, whitefish,'cuda, bonito and macks not to mention the lizardfish and tomcod.
Tommy

Interesting post:

8 Albacore
1/2 of a Dorado
5 legal halibut
3 legal seabass
0 Barred Sand Bass

And the fish I will never kill:
Calico Bass, Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass

A few rockfish and a couple lingcod.

GOOD point about releasing bass.I wish more people would do the same.

Dig this-
Seaforth landing ALONE kept almost 25,000 Calicos.
With 22 major landings from Santa Barbara to Diego averaging about the same, that would be 550,000 Calicos.
Then you add in the private boaters.
Probably close to 3/4 of a million.
WAY too many in IMO. They should lower the limit-period.

RD

I totally agree!!

A 10 fish limit for Calico Bass is not only utterly rediculous... it's completely Unacceptable!!

I think even 5 fish is way out of line. They also need to establish a slot limit that is based on sound research. Maybe something like 13-14 inches only! :D

Dave(Outrage)

Personally, I wouldn't mind if they made calicos CnR only but most would view that as extreme.

What I would like to see a slot limit of 14-17 inches and a limit of 5 or less. No one needs to keep more than 5 bass in a trip.

Bad news: This "meat fisherman" will ALWAYS have room for a couple or 3 of the smaller tasty calicos in his sack.

Good news: In a given year I probly don'r kill more than 4 or 5 of the critters, and more of us are aware of the need to send the bigger models back to that calico love shack to make more. :D And I have seen party boat deckhands make people aware of that, too.

Couldn't agree more on the max size & smaller bag limits, tho neither is usually an issue for me! :(

Tight lines,
Fishslayer

3 bft
2 albies
1 yt
1 dodo

All bass, fresh and salt, released as well as 1 legal halibut, a fat sculpin and that is about it. I guess most of my time was spent bassing.

Kept:
1 halibut (my first legal)
1 WSB
3 Albies
1 YFT

Released:
Countless Large Mouth and Small Mouth bass
Calico and Sandies (Including one Calico that went 5 lbs 7 oz)
Some Crappie and Bluegill
Tons of assorted ##### fish from the ocean