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09-07-2010, 06:09 PM
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viva the plug-o-lution
Join Date: May 2002
Location: notsob
Posts: 3,476
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comm gillnetting bluefish
anybody ever done this? im curious. i want a brain to pick.
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live to fish. fish to live. rod tips high.
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09-07-2010, 06:29 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Gloucester Massachusetts
Posts: 2,678
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There is a boat out of New Bedford that commercial fishes for them.
I do it with my rod and reel permit, some days they are 50cents and some days they are a dollar a lb..
Pays for gas and the good thing is you do not need to gut em.
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09-08-2010, 11:34 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,692
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fly Rod
There is a boat out of New Bedford that commercial fishes for them.
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god bless them.  |
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09-08-2010, 11:38 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: marshfield
Posts: 3,620
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i've seen comm prices for them as whole and dressed
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my 1st wife didn't like me fishing so much
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09-08-2010, 08:34 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Rockland, MA
Posts: 651
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"the good thing is you do not need to gut em"
As far back as I can remember we always had to market gut and bleed em unless they were going for lobster bait? Care to share the buyer info.??
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09-08-2010, 11:22 AM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Atlantic doesn't require them bleed or gutted and Joe's followed suit. They do have you fill out a sheet about how you caught them, time, when iced down or not and your #. They do pay a decent price though, but I hardly caught any this year
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09-08-2010, 11:51 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Newtown, CT
Posts: 5,659
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Good prices. When I used o commercial fish them off Montauk we would be lucky to get .30 a pound.
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09-08-2010, 04:17 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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When you had to gut them and all I wouldn't even bother as it was just too messy and I did gut 60 lbs one day on the water and I said that is it for this crap and all you would get was .30 cents. The guy at Atlantic told me he has a buyer for them, thus the good price, but they require them to be handled appropriately so he can deliver a good product. I got a buck a lb this year a few times and once .70 cents, but like I said I did not get many. Last year it was not unusual to get 70 lbs but that many make a hell of a mess, but can save a bad day.
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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09-08-2010, 04:21 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 97
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Quote:
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As far back as I can remember we always had to market gut and bleed em unless they were going for lobster bait? Care to share the buyer info.??
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...Northern Wind, Whaling City, Bergy's, maybe International ...all New Bedford (at least during bass season).... |
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09-08-2010, 05:11 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Gloucester Massachusetts
Posts: 2,678
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Keep them well iced while fishing. Ice, salt water brine, you may need to add salt to the brine. Hands get very, very cold reaching in to take them out.
15lb. bag of ice at Market Basket 2.50 I usually get 3 bags.
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09-09-2010, 12:26 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Newtown, CT
Posts: 5,659
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fly Rod
Keep them well iced while fishing. Ice, salt water brine, you may need to add salt to the brine. Hands get very, very cold reaching in to take them out.
15lb. bag of ice at Market Basket 2.50 I usually get 3 bags.
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You're getting ripped off, I pay 2.50 a TOTE at the ice house. A tote=100 lbs. |
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09-09-2010, 01:18 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Gloucester Massachusetts
Posts: 2,678
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MakoMike
You're getting ripped off, I pay 2.50 a TOTE at the ice house. A tote=100 lbs.
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Convenience!
ice house - 6.00 a tote
auction - 4.00 a tote
friend - Free |
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09-09-2010, 04:13 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Newtown, CT
Posts: 5,659
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fly Rod
Convenience!
ice house - 6.00 a tote
auction - 4.00 a tote
friend - Free
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But that's not what you said! Free is definitely the way to go. |
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09-08-2010, 05:07 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 147
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If you have over a 100 lbs at Atlantic they subtract I belive 10 or 25 lbs do them drying out
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09-09-2010, 11:09 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Rockland, MA
Posts: 651
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Thanks for the info. guys. I remember pulling the tin boat up on the beaches at Osterville in front of some millionaires houses with the old man back in the day and proceeding to gut about 30 or 40 big blues....not a pleasant task...and one frowned upon by the local marine police.
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09-11-2010, 08:00 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: 14000 / 44031.5
Posts: 932
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macojo - what did the ice machine run you?
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09-11-2010, 10:10 PM
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Seal Control
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Caver, Ma.
Posts: 3,875
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I bought it 2 years ago on crigslist for $100! Its the best hundred bucks I have ever spent!
Another friend got a 600 pound machine its huge for $200 off there.
Just keep looking they are out there!!
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"All my friends are Flakes!!"
BOATLESS 
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09-12-2010, 08:18 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 23
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cool video maco.i see mark on more peoples boats...always with a life jacket...
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