wtf is with this

[Willy]

I know for a couple of days after the opener the commercial guys cant pull their pots.

That gives a few days with no competition, and a shot at the biggest bugs.

Imagine now, with all of the commercial pots you see, and those you don't see, going up on deck every night, taking all of the legal bugs and tossing the shorts.
What does that leave? The seafloor crawling with shorts.

< rant>

This is the same issue I have with the stupidity of the MLPAs.
It's not the guys in yaks and skiffs making an impact on any species. It's the commercial guys. To lump us ALL together and call us 'Consumptives' is beyond ignorant.

< /rant>

What to do?
Go where they can't.

That's the blessing of a yak. You don't need to be in 100' of water to get bugs. Any diver will tell you that.
I've been gearing up in waist deep water, dropped my head into the water and seen a legal bug walking by my feet. All you need is rocks on the seafloor. Go find somewhere there are sandy spots near rocks where a commercial guy wouldn't take his boat.

Good luck and be safe.

Willy