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02-19-2009, 01:24 PM
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Steve "Van Staal"
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Cranston
Posts: 544
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"SELECT" were the small fish and the most coveted $ wise. Usually under 15 or so pounds. "JO" were jumbos- the large ones.
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02-19-2009, 01:56 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2005
Location: MA
Posts: 29
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Selling Fish
I can rember riding on the tailgate of my uncle's scout going to town to sell bass. Spent many a day waiting on the sidewalk outside the candy shop on commercial street while the "men" went to sell fish. Most of the time they also stopped at the Focsal for a few beers. It was ok with me I used to get extra bribe money to keep quite. Not sure he ever got rich doing it I would say just even at best.
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02-19-2009, 02:11 PM
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President - S-B Chapter - Kelly Clarkson Fan Club
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Rowley
Posts: 3,781
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wow that's cool, I gotta admit if I was old enough back then I would have been all over that too, especially right about now!
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02-19-2009, 02:52 PM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
Posts: 8,672
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Thats cool info Flap thanks.
Bass still do equate to dollars for me, its all negative cash flow and I probabaly average around $100 per pound  |
making s-b.com a kinder, gentler place for all 
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02-19-2009, 03:23 PM
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Cape Crusader
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Ashland, MA
Posts: 323
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Very cool thread....a nice look back at a time before environmental concernsoverwhelmed having a good time and making an honest buck. Things changed because we learned and they had to, but I like the idea of thinking about how things were before they did change. I missed those days, catching my first striper around 1990 or so.
No doubt, if I was of the right age back then I would have been hitting the bass sales hard.
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02-19-2009, 06:46 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
Posts: 5,451
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Like Steve doing a 100.00 bucks plus for his 47lber, I got $90.00 plus for these two 23 inch fish and the larger 24lb. and change fish.
Nauset, June 1983
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Why even try......... 
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02-19-2009, 07:23 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Bristol, PA. U.S.A.
Posts: 130
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Very cool history lesson here............thanks!
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GET OUT THERE,
and FISH!
Steve
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02-19-2009, 08:30 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: jerseyshore
Posts: 4,949
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Quote:
Originally Posted by steve
"SELECT" were the small fish and the most coveted $ wise. Usually under 15 or so pounds. "JO" were jumbos- the large ones.
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Steve, My friends from PA and NJ used to come up to NG in the summer months.
A working vacation.They could not go and fish for fun "large" till they made there money with the "select" fish..One of the guys would handle all the expenses.Shortly after they returned he had a check and would split up the money after he paid for the trip..I have heard the stories many times from one of my friends.He would name of all the common spots fishing with old atom jrs.Filling up.Then getting bait and livelining..They said the locals would ask why they where keeping em alive.My good friend Pa Rick took one 49-15 on the fish mongers scale on a live bunker.He never took the fish to another scale.This was maybe 30 years ago..It didn't mean anything to them back then.Not sure I could take it anywheres else after that either..I just mentioned it cause it is a crappy place for the pin to stop..
I love to bust his chops about it know.The fish mongers scale was always right..Right? |
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It's usually darkest just before it turns Black..
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