What to do! What to do!

[PRO V LE]

I've never fished for them, why can you not catch and release a striper in warm water?

They fight so hard that the lactic acid builds up in their system and becomes lethal. They also must have cooler water with O2 to survive, more so the bigger they get.
Even if you release a striper and it swims away it will die soon after.

[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.