Supposedly a 27-1/2" striper caught here on Cape Ann the first of the season, was caught the other night in the Annisquam River approximately 10:30PM according to the Gloucester Daily times with his picture taken with the fish at
home.
From where he caught the fish he takes it home(lives close by) had to take at least five minutes to walk to his house, he gathers his son, wife, the wife scrambles to take a picture in the living room, walks the fish back to the river and claims he had a successfull release.
If the enviromemental police read this story in the paper I would suspect they will be knocking on his door.
We had a clam shell warden once digging in a closed area and a newspaper photograher snapped his picture after sunset walking off the flat with a sack of clams in each hand. Needless to say he was bagged by the enviromemtals the next day with the paper article as evidence.