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Originally Posted by AndyS
I do !! Who wants to jerk around with 13 inch fish when you can get (on average) 5 pound fish. Not to mention the dinner plate sized porgies, purple hake, cod and pollock you get with an offshore trip. I can't find the photo but won the pool on the Doris Mae with a 7 pound sea bass. I know it will never happen again but January and February were lights out when it came to offshore sea bass fishing.
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I agree Andy. Don't know if you remember but in 2013 I was on a Doris Mae trip with you with my son Ryan. Weather was insane for January, short sleeves and we absolutely destroyed the sea bass with clams and jigs. One of the best offshore trips I've ever been on. I remember going up in the wheelhouse and the captain Charles Eble, who is no longer with us, showed me the fish finder. It was lit up with sea bass 75 feet over the wreck. All monster sea bass especially on the jigs.
We're at a point where recs get the crumbs left over after commercial quotas have been decided. If we don't use our voice to our advantage, our kids will never experience trips like that and we should do what we can to make sure that doesn't become a reality.
