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lived many years 1964-1977 closest house to powerplant on Ripley st. Somerset. Caught tog, flounder, weakfish, tommy cod conger eel, perch blues and stripers between the boat ramp and bridge. Its how and where I learned to fish. Power plant never was a problem ( A little soot on your car in the mornin and ya couldn't hang clothes to dry) but we caught everywhere in the cove. Something changed over there in the eary 80s and things started to die. We could get into the water outlet (what we called it then) cause our neighbor worked there and snag pogies and perch in the winter. I go back every year for a day or so and am astonished at how dead it really is! The rocks along the shore are one uniform brown color. Anyone from S.B.live or fish there in the 70s' Caught the biggest tog of my life at 14 years old at the tip of that point.
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