Guess who set a new Mass. record today 76 #
 

No realy guess it was weighed in at Westport marine today along with 29 other fish. Average weight for all 30 fish 42 lbs. If this keeps up I think there will be a new all time set this year or next !!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry to be negative but 30 dead big fish in one haul. Nice - :mad:. If that's true and all these big fish kills keep up I'm afraid there will be no fish left in the near future.

Is this an official fish?

I'm negative too, but for a different reason. Without proof, I won't voice my suspicions, though :hs:

Why would you expect it to keep up with all the big fish being killed this year? Congrats to the angler, his skill and luck are to be admired, but the killing of fish of this quality for food use is sad news for the rest of us and illustrates very short sighted fishery policy.

Commercial Season?
 

Did they amend the commercial regs to include Mondays in the commercial season? Unless 15 different recreational anglers weighed in fish in Westport today for a 42# average or 6 commercial permits checked in Sunday's catch. :huh: Am I missing something here?

yah, 30 fish weighed in on a Monday? :huh: gotta be comms... or some retired guys REALLY got into them :D

thinking the latter, westport marine is one of two commercial fish dealers I know of in Westport

fish from during the week, some guys stock pile before they sell so they dont have to go to market every trip.
its legal to sell on off days. nice fishy!!!
that guy is making a killing.

You're not missing anything--Monday is a closed day and Sunday is a 5 fish day.

Unless I'm mistaken, you can't sell Sunday fish on a Monday.

I could be wrong about this, but I don't think it's legal to possess more than 5 fish on a Sunday. "Ice fishing", while a time-honored commercial tradition, happens to be illegal.

You can't possess a commercial limit on a closed day, the way I read the regs. And you clearly can't sell fish on closed days.

(d) Commercial fishermen engaged in striped bass fishing may not possess or land more than 30 striped bass per day on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays and 5 striped bass per day on Sundays during the open season. This limit applies to any individual fishermen fishing from shore or to any vessel regardless of the number of individual licensed commercial fishermen aboard.

k) Commercial fishermen shall sell striped bass only during the commercial season and only during the open fishing days within the commercial season.

something is fishy here,,, i think Mike's a comm fisherman

It wouldn't surprize me if Bob Sirois(Got stripes)...maybe a little

I havn't sold fish since 1982!


Strictly a C&R fisherman now.

Getting back to the original post :bl:, is there a new Mass 76 or is Greggy-Poo having a little fun :wavey:

Greggy-Poo???????????

He's reporting a catch from last Thursday, I believe. Not sure about the 76# fish, but my first hand account said it was 19 fish @42# average. Same weigh station.

http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripert...ad.php?t=50542
you mean this catch Back Beach?

could be

anyway

I'm not gonna guess who, but if true, congrats to that guy as long as it was caught with rod and reel.

He was talking about this Mike ;)

I wonder, though, whether the fish came from Mass waters, or whether it was taken off the Block. The way I understand how these things work, if the fish was brought to port in Mass, it qualifies for a Mass record. I think that many of the state records up and down the coast were caught offshore beyond state waters--swordfish, certain sharks, yellowfin, marlin and so on.

I just found the 30 fish part suspicious, because the way Greg worded his post, it sounded like one guy with a Tuesday-Thursday comm limit landing them on a Monday :confused:

He lack of come back make me think he is yankin

all ri fish no doubt.. :wall:

He may be "yankin" because he thinks its funny and likes to play with some of us a little (some of us have known and liked Greg for a while) but he has also over time been right on the money with a lot of "rumors" emanating from that part of the state. The lack of comeback is probably just that he posts a handful of times a month at Oh Dark Thirty and then goes of too work - not in front of a computer all day :tooth: . Seriously though, Greg is real good people (when he is not being cranky :deadhorse::lm::bshake:).

Not to change the subject, guess I did, but is Bob Sirois still alive and around? Sorry.

I'm not going to point fingers at anyone--and especially not the guy involved here with this fish--but I suspect that there are more than a few RI fish hitting the Mass markets since our season opened :doh:

Yeh, just talked to him this weekend, he forgot his password ;)

yeah he's around but you won't find him on land. John, i didn't know he had a puter on his console???

That crap needs to stop. :cens:

It costs less for a non-resident commercial license, with the striped bass endorsement, than it does for a non-resident recreational shellfish license in my town :doh:

There's a better chance of getting hit by lightning than there is of getting caught. A boat with 30 bass has to be caught in RI waters by their DEM, or it has to be seen crossing into Mass waters by our EPOs with a load of fish. Once they're in Mass waters on an open day, they're untouchable.

RI angler fishing Mass waters. A great fisherman who has won the Schaefer Cup. He had not had a 50# in nine years and then got 4 in one morning.

Good for him.
Good for his family.
Bad for the fishery.
Bad for us.
Bad for the MA commercials.
Probably bad for BI. Taxes are high in Massachusetts.
So it goes.

:1poke:

Do tell..
CS?

Not for nuttin, there are a lot of RI commercials fishing Mass waters and this has been historically the case. As current regs/allocations are based on "historic" landings, and "historically" a fair amount of RI anglers have always fished Mass commercial (believe it or not in Mass waters), it is not unreasonable to see RI anglers fish the Mass season.

its halarious rhody comms can take what 6 ri fish daily.

Mass guys come in and take 30 rhody fish.

It would stand to reason that rhody comms make a move to bag it and ban rhody comm fishing for stripers so the mass guys cant pick their pockets, or have the mass dailys lowered so the mass guys cant pick their pockets.

I dunno I guess everyone believes that a dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow. I'm not into the comm. striper fishery :happy: its senseless...


rhody comms getting short changed and their pockets picked by the mass guys should make a move to ban comm. striper fishing in ri water Period. Go get their 6 pack licenses and run 2 or 3 charters a day. The dough from charters would CRUSH what they get for killing their 6 fish :read: Oh wait I put 3 seconds of thought into that didnt I..... Ohhh and if they run lobster traps, they can bait traps, go to dock pick up charter go out, come back drop off pick up charter go out, drop off the last charter check traps... ohhh wow I wonder if a day like that would put more dough in pockets than killing 6 fish LOL ha. hahahhahahaha

Fuel prices are killing the small charter biz guys..

Who set the record? :huh:

If half of them weren't running twin 250's WOT half the time they might save a few bucks. ;)

Intro statement...I gave up my comm license for personal reasons years ago

Let's not forget the fact that many RI residents hold a RI License and a MA Comm License. Using Throwing Timbers term, these anglers can land/sell 6 fish in RI and 30 fish in MA essentially picking their own pockets. On the other hand, a MA resident can not go to RI and get a RI comm license (unless that has changed in the last couple years). Although I agree that crossing state waters to get either limit should not be allowed, I am far more concerned with all of the S-B fishing going on in the EEZ by anglers from and in the waters off both states.

Oh well...I just wanted to throw in that comment...I have to get ready for the MA Recreational Registry Steering Committee Meeting this affternoon. Oh goody.

I was going to make that point about Mass comms not being able to get a RI license. I believe in reciprocity--up to a point. When I can't get licensed to do something in your state, you shouldn't be able to do it in mine.

But since I don't hold a Mass comm license (sorry, Goose ;) ), it's not my fight. If I had one, you bet your ass I'd be screaming to DMF to not issue licenses to out-of-staters. RI doesn't offer reciprocity, and NH, Maine and CT are gamefish states. I wonder how many people who pushed gamefish for their own states hold a Mass commercial license?

As far as the EEZ goes--I personally don't care. 1.1 million pounds is 1.1 million pounds no matter where the fish come from. It gets filled every year in less than 6 weeks. If taking fish from the EEZ fills the quota sooner, so be it. If guys are raiding RI waters and take the fish to Mass to sell, so be it. The inshore Mass fishery probably benefits from it. But, since it's the law, I don't condone it.

How about setting a three or four fish per day limit for out of state comm. license holders.This would eliminate alot of the hanky panky that's going on especially stock piling and tr#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&g fish from out of state waters.They need to make it financially unfeasable for wrong doers to operate without hurting the legit guys.Just my two cents worth.

How?
All they do is stuff them in a freezer and wait anyhow.