Tonight, if I can find them, I remember having a slip from 1983 that I saved because I had two 23" inch fish and one around 22 pounds that brought near 100.00 bucks for those three alone.
I have a slip from Monomoy that was all 24 inch fish that paid something like 250.00. That was easy money, two at a time. One on the bomber and one on the redgill each cast.
I could go on and on.
We averaged .50 to .75cents a pound back in the late 70's for big fish when the run was on. Stiffy was there he could tell you. August brought the best money and we had them on Monomoy when every other beach was munged up bad we stayed clean because the flushing of Pleasant Bay each night kept the ocean side shore of Monomoy free of junk, only weed would be at high or low slack for an hour than we had 5 hours of clean fast moving water. It was pure bliss.
Stiffy and I had fished there into late November in the late 70's early 80's, some nights it snowed and we still caught fish but froze our nutz off doing it.
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