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07-12-2006, 08:39 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
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Comm fishing and OTW's contest
With the Mass SB comm fishing season kicking off today, with a 30 fish per day limit, I was wondering if it the comm fishermen can be included in this event? I ask because at 30 fish per day they can cull their catch each fishing day in a manner that rec's cannot and be virtually set to weigh in a 40+ each week.
Does this seem fair to you?
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07-12-2006, 09:08 AM
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Let's Rock!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Wareham, MA
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nope...doesn't seem fair to me.  |
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07-12-2006, 09:49 AM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
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It's not fair, but it's mainly a boaters' issue. I don't know too many guys putting 30 at 34" or better on the sand or the rocks with any regularity. And the way it's shaping up, you'd need at least a 33-35 to make the top 10 for s-b.com.
I don't know of any way to enforce a rule prohibiting commercial fishermen from entering--especially given how easy it is to get a comm license in Mass, and that the fishery is dominated by guys that are basically recs selling their catch to defray expenses. NY, RI and Mass are the only states in the tourney that have a commercial bass fishery. I don't know about RI, but in NY it's restricted so tightly that it's almost impossible to get a comm license and unless you're grandfathered before 1986, you can't even fish for stripers. I only know of one commercial pinhooker on all of LI.
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07-12-2006, 09:54 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
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This has been a complaint of mine in regards to tournaments for quite awhile.....they could always run the names of the entrants against the State list of commercially liscensed fishermen?
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Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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07-12-2006, 11:51 AM
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Really Old & Really Grumpy
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: not a clue
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[QUOTE=Mike P]It's not fair, but it's mainly a boaters' issue.
this point is true.....
But checking the "state list" for comm.lisc. holder's....doesn't mean squat....I held a comm. lisc. for year's....the BEACH is where I fished..one rod just like the rec's....I just get the feeling most rec's are alittle ,shall we just say upset...because their not as good a fisherman then the comm. guy.
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BOAT fish do count.
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07-12-2006, 11:57 AM
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Keep The Change
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Road to Serfdom
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RI had a 2 maybe 3 week season. Rod+ reel only 4 fish per day... Not much to cull 30's from unless that is all you are getting ....
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“It’s not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections,” Antonin Scalia
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07-12-2006, 12:06 PM
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Let's Rock!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Wareham, MA
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Quote:
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I just get the feeling most rec's are alittle ,shall we just say upset...because their not as good a fisherman then the comm. guy.
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I don't know about all that. |
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07-12-2006, 12:38 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Middletown, RI
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I don't see what difference it makes.  Recreational or commercial you can only weigh in one fish a week. |
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07-12-2006, 05:59 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 4,716
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They should put a hault on striper cup (boaters) dureing the comm. season,,,yeah that sux
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