What to do! What to do!

[RoadToad]

Would it even be legal to continue fishing for stripers once you had your limit in your cooler? I thought that any fish you were "in control of" counted towards your limit. If that's true, then it seems to me that if you had your limit in your creel already, and hooked another of that same species, you would at that point be over your limit, and could be cited.

[Duayne]

Would it even be legal to continue fishing for stripers once you had your limit in your cooler? I thought that any fish you were "in control of" counted towards your limit. If that's true, then it seems to me that if you had your limit in your creel already, and hooked another of that same species, you would at that point be over your limit, and could be cited.

It is not illegal to continue fishing for stripers after a limit at this time but many of us would like to see a seasonal mandatory non release law during warm months along with a shorter size limit in the summer and larger size limit in the winter.

[dc chopper]

Be happy you caught the limit, thank the man and go home!

[jigboy]

I have hired guides on Lake Michigan for the salmon run, walleyes on Lake Erie, and crappie at Weiss Lake and stripers on Cumberland and each guide I used at each lake was done once the limit was caught. I used to hate it but I am paying them so that I can catch fish and if they accomplish this, there job is done. It does get boring especially at a place like Weiss Lake where the most excitement around is watching ice melt but it is a blast catching all those limits. Congradulations on your limit.