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02-19-2009, 10:00 AM
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Steve "Van Staal"
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Cranston
Posts: 544
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Joe , surprisingly it was similar to today's prices. A good price back then(early 80's) was $1.80 a pound. During, say August, we got upwards of $3.00 a pound. Schoolies were always more per pound . We used to make a $100.00 a night in August catching small fish around NR and the town beach.
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02-19-2009, 10:04 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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maybe
this is where the term "Hooker" came from  |
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02-19-2009, 10:06 AM
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Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Marshfield
Posts: 2,608
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Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.
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"Sunshine Day Dream"
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02-19-2009, 10:08 AM
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Covered in Sawdust
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 358
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that's really interesting. Striper fishing history.
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02-19-2009, 10:19 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 3,650
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Wow - that was good money back then.
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02-19-2009, 10:41 AM
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Wishin' for fishin'
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Brockton
Posts: 1,651
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Make a blog and a public photo album. It would be interesting to see some photos of other stuff you (well everyone actually) might have to help everyone become better and more knowledgeable about (one of our) our favorite past times.
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02-19-2009, 10:52 AM
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Steve "Van Staal"
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Cranston
Posts: 544
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Joe Surfcasting, Yes it was. It paid for food and other stuff for my young family. I even bought a string of good pearls for my ex-wife with earnings for bass fishing one fall. I wish I never let my commercial lic. lapse during the moratorium, but we all thought selling bass was all done. Mistake!
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02-19-2009, 10:57 AM
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Steve "Van Staal"
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Cranston
Posts: 544
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Joe, I saved a few slips like Flap. I have one for a 47 llb. fish-$112.00- ONE FISH!
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02-19-2009, 11:13 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
Posts: 5,451
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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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Why even try......... 
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