Commercial reports?
 

What are prices this week? Is Chatham on track to do 75% again? I am hearing guys are struggling locally, with few getting limit. Mostly all just legal too.

Dead in westport and islands. We only had about 200# total into shop yesterday Fish were everywhere until sunday. They disappeared. Gone. They know when comm season opens.
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There not coming from Boston :yawn:

or plum Island...

or the canal

How bad does it have to get before people realize the current regulations have to be changed?
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Its like anything else in this world right now Nebe......it has to hit absolute rock bottom and smack you in the face before anything gets done!!!!:wall:

Water temps are way up.
Fish are out in deeper water.
By they way.
More small schoolies around than we've seen in years.
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Wrong.
Last week outside the east end was loaded with big fish.

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That is an exaggeration.
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I was speaking about last night

I know there were fish hiding in the canal and at the east end last week, I found some of them and let them swim away

moon is coming though so I am hopeful

and yep, the water has surely warmed up, how could it not

Gonna blow pretty good SW today/tomorrow. Might cool off CCB a bit but its back to E for next week that will warm it back up. 74 at sag beach and white cliffs yesterday.

Anybody every use something like this? Seems pricey but seems like it could help to pin point cold pockets and holes. Would suck to loose to a snag for that much $$

http://www.fishusa.com/Product/Fish-...ter-Temp-Gauge

I like the Rutgers site for sea surface temps to find cold near shore


but looks like that is pretty difficult at present
holy crap

water temp on our front beaches is 75.... unheard of this far north... especialy in the middle of July... 68 would be a normal high.. most year it might nudge 70 by labor day.. the bigger tides will help up out especialy in the river... a west wind for a few day's wouldnt hurt either..

:uhuh:

Some spots in CCB gave up some decent numbers, not where I was though. Chatham friends did decent. I got 4.55. lb on Sunday for a couple fish so the guys that got good numbers got a real nice check.
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Inside had some real good fish too. I had last week off and fished the canal everyday and had real decent fishing every day, even into the afternoons with hardly a soul around. Bait was very abundant. There were a lot of birds working outside the east end and they did come in a few days. Definitely looked like something was happening out there.

Hey Jay. Need to call you.
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A guy i know sold a 50 pounder on tue, 15 other bass also. At the auction they went at $5.35 # tue!! down to $3.75 on wed. have heard from a few others that got 20's and high teens in numbers of fish. So they are there!!

Friend of mine did over 2000 pounds this week.
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"x location" is happening again! I'm crunching the bass I mean sick fishing! We did 1200 pounds on tues wed alone! All the bass on cape cod are "spotburn removed" now again! Mark, we did 603 yesterday by 9:30 am. 20# average I hope they seriously close commercial fishing! And this is from someone who makes 20,000 a year on them! We need to stop this rape! Seriously there is 10 million pounds of fish out there!"

This is what he had to say
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Same as last year. I too agree with his request.
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He makes a legitimate living on the water. Over the years my stance has shifted slightly. I would like to see the permitting regulated differently in this state.
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Ran out of the east end canal Wed eve (got soaked :) ), noticed a small fleet unloading behind Joe's, looked like descent numbers, assuming took from bay..... I dun no!

Gup

Just under 300K pounds reported as of today
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Not to stir the pot or nothing, :) but if the stock is in so much trouble, as many of you seem to believe, how are these guys catching so many?

because they are concentrated all in one area of cooler water
like fishing in a barrel

it doesn't mean that the bass as a whole are not in trouble, they are managed to get the maximum yeild, but they should also make sure the ages are equally spread out from babies to cows

The price for mackerel is higher than bass now
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Chatham most likely. Probably didn't want to wait at the Atlantic truck. Not much happening in the bay so far. I'll bet the quota so far is a lot higher than that of which Mike stated.



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I think the season is gonna end this week!!!!:buds:

I wouldn't doubt it Bobby? Jimmy?:huh: I have heard the same thing from a few guys. I'm curious what did you get for a price yesterday?

That would be in violation of managing for maximum yield, which is required under the MSA.