Landings Data Reported as of August 9, 2006
Striped Bass
716,058(2006 MA Landings*)
1,140,807(2006 Quota)
MA 62.8 %

I still may have a chance.

Last year Quota was filled in a little over 4 weeks , Its been more than that now, Seems to be off this year.

$3.25 today:shocked:

Price of gas and poor fishing reports probably have a lot of the part-timers sitting this one out, too. Which is good for the full time comms.

a lot of guys are really struggling. i know of 4 guys that fished on tuesday and wednesday in the same general area. between the 4 boats, 2 fish in 2 days. these guys are good fisherman, which makes things pretty depressing.

a lot of the part-timers are finding out that its not always easy trying to be a commercial fisherman.

As of August 16, 2006...

847,175lbs.

74% of quota caught.

at this rate your probably looking at 2 more weeks, unless there is a glut of fish that shows up off chatham or gloucester.

Jeez, the guys I know are doing great. Limits, good prices,.... they say it sure beats not catchin' tuna.....

DMF passed the word down today...

season set to close :soon: thursday august 24.

get'em whilest you can.:gorez:

Price finally Hits 3.75-3.85, up from the 1.75 and under earlier in the season... quota gets filled zip boom bang.. now it's over..
hmmmm....

Rumour has it a charter boat out of the Harwich area was bagged yesterday by the EPO's, and the feds in the eez. Guess they followed him as he tried to run and chuck the fish over. They just netted all the bass and finally got him near Monomoy. The feds vow to make an example of him. Not good, not good at all. This is gonna cost him many many thousands of dollars when they get done skewering him.
Stoopid bastard. :doh:

Any more on this?

It sucks that these guys who earn most of their yearly pay taking customers out to catch striped bass are restricted to some of the least productive waters during the summer months. Bearse's is a desert most days in the summer and when you throw in 40 boats on the same rip..... But a few miles SE are some great bass rips, but fishing them makes you a criminal. Why? Because a fish swam over an imaginary line on a chart....

I know a guy who is honest as the day is long, got skunked on an 8 hour trip because he refused to fish in the EEZ, even though he knew there were loads of fish there.

Ok, now you can light me up about the rules concerning the EEZ :rocketem:

looks like all that b@#$hing and moaning about not catching fish didn't end up like everyone thought...

here are the final numbers...

1,109,195
97% of the quota filled.

How long did it take. Last year was a little over 4 weeks ,It took longer to fill this years quota, I wonder Why............

Took a week longer this year, probly because there were a few less out there do to gas prices and stuff.

Opened July 12, closed Aug 24. Total of 25 days doing the arithmetic in my head. Bear in mind that I've been up since 4:30 and have had several :gu:

30 fish per day and 5 on sunday this year
was it that last year?

Yes