Commercial bass closing tmr?

[big jay]

Only 17 days this season (4 of which were 5 fish Sundays).

$4 gas and lower prices than last year kept many guys home, yet the quota was caught faster than ever.

[Slinger]

Check the numbers, as of 5 this morning the quota was only at 65%! Could be that they want to get an accurate count???

[Raider Ronnie]

Originally Posted by Slinger

Check the numbers, as of 5 this morning the quota was only at 65%! Could be that they want to get an accurate count???

Bingo
Quota not close to full and behind schedule compared to most years.

[numbskull]

Just asking, what percent of the fish taken so far do people estimate came from Chatham?

[inTHERAPY]

Originally Posted by numbskull

Just asking, what percent of the fish taken so far do people estimate came from Chatham?

100% I know that's an exaggeration but I would bet 75%. I know not much came from areas 13 and 14!

it would seem the chatham fishery did a tune on "small" fish

[fishbones]

Originally Posted by numbskull

Just asking, what percent of the fish taken so far do people estimate came from Chatham?

When I was on vacation last week, I went in to a fish market on the Cape to pick up some stuffies and steamers. I ended up speaking with the owner about the bass coming in from Chatham. He took me in the back room and showed me a few totes overflowing with 34 to 36" fish, all from Chatham. He said that was the only place anyone was getting them, but by last Thursday it had slowed way down.

[Clammer]

Nothing but 34 to 36" fish

sounnds exactly like the Providence River in early JUne in2007,08, 09 &&&&&&&&&& then there were none ><>><><

[Rockfish9]

definatly a lag in reporting somewhere... it's up to 86.9% now...

[redlite]

Originally Posted by numbskull

Just asking, what percent of the fish taken so far do people estimate came from Chatham?

Dan and I were just talking about this last nite.
Chatham has always been the land of the 33 3/4 inch bass.
But based upon Dan's work visits to the empty New Bedford fish houses and here, we estimate about 75% of the quota came from Chatham.
Do the math.
That means about 750,000 lbs. With the average fish there about 15# (though there were a lot more bigger than normal fish mixed in), that's approx 50,000 bass from one mass....Sick.
That's why it slowed down. they were decimated.
The other 25% prob from Block..........
Worst comm season I can remember having from shore in the 17 yrs I've had a comm license........

[Fly Rod]

Originally Posted by redlite

Dan and I were just talking about this last nite.
Chatham has always been the land of the 33 3/4 inch bass.
But based upon Dan's work visits to the empty New Bedford fish houses and here, we estimate about 75% of the quota came from Chatham.
Do the math.
That means about 750,000 lbs. With the average fish there about 15# (though there were a lot more bigger than normal fish mixed in), that's approx 50,000 bass from one mass....Sick.
That's why it slowed down. they were decimated.
The other 25% prob from Block..........
Worst comm season I can remember having from shore in the 17 yrs I've had a comm license........

Let me see if I understand this, you are saying that75% of the qouta came from Chatham and the rest of the million pounds came from Block Island area. Is this correct.

That's a lot of fish.

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by Fly Rod

Let me see if I understand this, you are saying that75% of the qouta came from Chatham and the rest of the million pounds came from Block Island area. Is this correct.

That's a lot of fish.

The last time I checked, Block Island wasn't anywhere close to Massachusetts territorial waters.