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10-16-2014, 04:38 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Gloucester Massachusetts
Posts: 2,678
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Tuna Fishing off Cape Ann
Tuna fishing off of Cape Ann since the weather broke so the guys could get out on fairly calm seas this past week, proved to be a bonanza for the tuna fleet....some of the best fishing in a long time...boats were lined up waiting to take their fish out with a local dealer, averaging taking out a dozen fish or more a day....one boat took out four fish on Wednesday....a friend of mine hooked one within 5 minutes of putting his line out on southern Jeffries about 15 miles and dressed 407 pounds.....  |
"When its not about money,it's all about money."...
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10-16-2014, 07:22 PM
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"Fishbucket"
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Bahston Hahbah
Posts: 6,588
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It's been a good season
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10-16-2014, 08:16 PM
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Spot Preserver
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Mansfield
Posts: 2,461
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That bite has been special. Most boats getting fish. Plus its a quick ride too.
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Make America Great Again.
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10-16-2014, 09:06 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: 14000 / 44031.5
Posts: 932
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I'm thinking the quota is going to close and I won't get my shot at the Hudson again.
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10-18-2014, 08:44 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Gloucester Massachusetts
Posts: 2,678
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the mid water trawlers started last nite(friday) at midnight in this area so there goes the good tuna fishing
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"When its not about money,it's all about money."...
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10-18-2014, 08:26 PM
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"Fishbucket"
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Bahston Hahbah
Posts: 6,588
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Well at least they let them spawn out first
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10-21-2014, 10:23 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Mansfield
Posts: 4,834
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Is over.!!!!!
Many of you, like us, have enjoyed the great fishing on southern Jeffries the last few weeks. This bite as chronicled in the Gloucester Times, Salem News and Boston herald, has been one of the best inshore tuna bites in recent times. Boats from all over New England came to gloucester, buying fuel, tackle, slippage and patronizing local business. Another group of boats from all over New England converged there last night the pair trawlers and herring seiners. As a board member of ABTA in conjunction with the choir coalition, we fought long and hard to exclude these vessels from the inshore gulf of Maine for the summer and spawning season of Atlantic herring. The southern Jeffries bite is entirely predicated on the presence of these spawning herring, which arrived this year in good numbers and drew the tuna, as well as millions of cod, haddock, whiting, whales, dolphins, porpoise and seals.
After last night, when no less than eleven 150 plus foot boats descended on that bottom to catch their entire area 1A quota out of one little spot five miles off shore, there will be nothing left. This is an area where currently a recreational angler is not allowed to catch cod or haddock with a jig for fear of their stocks collapsing. This is an area where gillnetters have been forbidden to fish in the fall due to fears of interaction with dolphins and porpoise. But management thinks its fine that the entire herring fleet towing mile wide nets in 150' of water of 5/8 inch mesh at seven knots is a good way to harvest the inshore herring resource.
Disgusting. When management didn't realize the big draggers would pound the bank all winter under catch shares we all lost our ground fishery. And now we watch as their lack of foresight or care for the resource wipes clean the inshore bottom. Goodbye great heralded bite of the decade, anyone think the papers will publish a story on the heaps of dead by catch drifting around Jeffries this week?
As reported by Firstlight Anglers
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10-21-2014, 12:58 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,703
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Was up there last weekend and saw the boats hanging around all day.
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10-22-2014, 09:09 AM
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DDG-51
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 3,550
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Sucks to hear, but good post Buckman, that's a damn shame.
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10-22-2014, 09:25 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 8,718
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Had a nice outing in the PH area yesterday.
lots of fish around of all sizes.
bon apetit
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PRO CHOICE REPUBLICAN
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10-23-2014, 10:25 AM
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D'oh
Join Date: May 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 3,296
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i bent my wookie
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10-23-2014, 11:55 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Duxbury
Posts: 652
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sea Dangles
Had a nice outing in the PH area yesterday.
lots of fish around of all sizes.
bon apetit
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This interests the hell out of me.  |
-Andrew
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10-23-2014, 01:20 PM
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BuzzLuck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brockton
Posts: 6,414
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I hope to be out there if weather holds either Tues or Wed trolling around.
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10-24-2014, 05:56 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,703
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Was told they are done for that area. Quota filled.
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Originally Posted by thefishingfreak
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