Originally posted by Ibtsoom
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Would you say gigging allows the hunter to be selective in his harvest.
Yes because he can see his potential quarry and make a decission as to bag that flounder or pass it up.
In the month of november the bag is reduced to 2 fish by hook and line only with a total ban on gigging.
Can someone give me a valid reason why?
(Some can give a valid reason but I have a easy retort so bring it.)
In november most every flounder fisherman working the run will be culling because with a 2 fish limit they want a door mat. This means several mortaly wounded legal fish will be tossed to make room on a stringer for a bigger fish.
This could go on all day by some fishermen. Mean while the gig is banned when that gig could easliy decide if that was a fish that he wants to fill his 2 fish limit instead of indiscreminetly catching undersized as well as legal fish to be tossed back by hook and line.
So then why pick on the gig when we take a fraction of the fall harvest compared to the hook and line. What is the rational fear? What's next in this witch hunt, a total 3 month ban on the gig? Then a 3 month gig by the hook and line. Why not ban the hook and line in November along with the gig, what is the difference how they are taken as long as it is legal. On top of this there only a fraction of winter gigger compared to summer giggers because the water and air is so cold and the gigger still has to wait between fronts that last for days to find a night that is not muddied up by the weather
Straight-up, Giggers are the scape goat in this witch hunt.
I think they may be testing the waters to see the reaction from the gigging public and attempt more bans on the gig in the future.
If they really want to get serious about the subject there should had been a total ban on the harvest by all methods from october thru december. Taking out the gigger is like putting a band aid on a severed limb.
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