How "BIG" do you think they get???????

[Mike P]

I dunno, Church set the record in 1912 at 72#, and it wasn't until 1967 that 70 was topped again, by Cinto. In the thirty-odd years since Cinto's fish, there has been a lot of effort thrown at these fish by some of the best anglers ever to cast a rod, and the record went up all of 5-1/2 pounds. I have to think that 80# give or take is their upper limit--or at least of the ones that come inshore. There may well be a population of "super bass" that lay offshore on the squid and other baits that are out there--if those rumors (none of which seem to be accompanied by photos) of 100#+ fish in trawler nets are true. As far as the reports of 90# fish taken on handlines, etc in the last century, I wonder how accurately they were weighed, even if the rumors are true--I know there used to be a plaque near the admin building at Nauset commemorating a 90# fish.