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Originally Posted by Fisherman120
Sorry but I find this post to be a little absurd. Posting about this months after the fact is very peculiar. This would’ve been easily cleared up if you spoke up and had the scales rebalanced right there. Switch sides too and rebalance it. What if the other fish was bigger? Nothing personal against you, I never met you, but I’ve heard plenty of times on party boats people say “my fish is bigger” when it clearly wasn’t. Or somebody catches a 21 inch fluke and they call it 6 lbs. Or an 8 lb tog is caught and somebody calls it 10. You get my point. Just because you say your fish was bigger, doesn’t mean it actually was. To post months afterwards is very fishy.
Again, nothing personal to you Bob.. I’ve just seen it too many times on party boats. Even friends of mine who fish often will insist their fish is bigger. Even when it’s not, and even after weigh in. Personal bias goes a long way..
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No offense taken.. first off, i am 64 and have been fishing fresh and salt water since I was a little kid, and much of that time in salt water as I lived in NJ for 37 years.. I fish a lot, and can spot a bigger fish from a smaller one believe me.. The reason I mention the colors and body shapes of sea bass, is because most that fish for them know those deep colored blue black knot heads are a heavier bodied fish than the slender brownish ones...
both fish were the same length, mine had mch bigger shoulders and a deeper body.. I should have made a stink right then and there, but i just walked away at the time, and stewed about it later the more I thought about it...
the reason I am posting about it now, is very easy to understand.
Its January, its mid week, not much real time fishing to talk about, and I like good conversation on recreational fishing topics of all types, and this is one that the knowledgeable and savvy fishermen on NJF might have interest in, or opinions on, and I felt it was a reasonable topic to discuss.
I am not sour grapes, or angry, just wanted opinions and possible similar experiences... I typically trusted the pool weigh in procedure, but never will again in my lifetime... I just don't think a mate has any business rifling through a bucket to find the biggest fish in it with another angler standing there watching.. That fish should have been handed to the mate if its captor was in the pool.. Its my fault I didn't think about it at the time, but i am typically not a suspicious type. It took an hour or so of thinking and discussion before I fully realized what transpired, and realized i had been taken.
No big deal, the guy got his money, and that 70 or 80 bucks would not have made me rich in any case. The boat in question has lost a customer, albeit a once or twice a year customer. Also I realize now that even though I am an outsider, its not out of place to tell the mate to kindly center the scale, or put the fish on opposite sides of the scale in a pool weigh in situation. Thats why I like to discuss these issues on this forum from time to time, to learn and get ideas and opinions.. This forum section is NOT a 100% "reports' forum as many think.. Its a salt water fishing discussion forum and that encompasses many topics... bob
bob
01-02-2019, 06:43 PM
Re: Party Boat pool "irregularity"?
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