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  1. Even with the lack of seals at South Monomoy the rips have not been holding many Bass this month. Head north to Nauset.
  2. THE BEAR has been in search of a mate. Who would of thought it was another male bear?@? http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120606/NEWS11/120609845/-1/NEWS
  3. Judge calls out fisheries service on herring catch By Doug Fraser dfraser@capecodonline.com March 13, 2012 2:00 AM Environmentalists and local fishermen hailed a decision by a federal judge Monday that they say will help many of those species that may not have the cachet of commercial fish species like cod, haddock or even herring, but are affected just as much when they are caught along with their better-known brethren. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service had not followed the law in failing to protect river herring and shad from being overfished by herring trawlers. Kessler said NMFS couldn't single out stocks for protection but must apply conservation measures to all depleted stocks without unreasonable delay. NMFS spokeswoman Maggie Mooney-Seus said her agency was still considering Kessler's decision. When the New England Fishery Management Council deliberated changes to the fishery management plan for Atlantic herring in 2008, they initially included consideration of measures to assess the damage that large herring trawlers were inflicting on other species like river herring and shad that were sometimes caught in great numbers along with the massive hauls of Atlantic herring. By 2008, there was already great concern about river herring in particular whose population had experienced a precipitous drop-off and states all along the Atlantic coast imposed a moratorium on catching or selling any of these anadromous species, which return to the Cape's streams and rivers every spring to spawn. Local fishermen and the national environmental movement wondered if the startling decline of fish returning to the runs could be linked with bycatch in the herring fishery. In 2008, Amendment 4 to the herring management plan was originally intended to address that by increasing the amount of monitoring of river herring and shad and other bycatch, but that portion of the amendment was put off until the next big revision, Amendment 5, which is now in the public hearing phase nearly four years later. "It's clear that the courts don't allow you to shunt off legal obligations on some future plan," said Roger Fleming, the attorney representing recreational fisherman Michael Flaherty of Wareham, charter boat Capt. Alan Hastbacka of Chatham, and the Ocean River Institute who filed suit last April. They claimed the National Marine Fisheries Service, which oversees the fish council and does the legal work behind fish regulations, violated the federal Magnuson-Stevens Fish Conservation and Management Act and two other federal acts by not preventing overfishing of river herring and shad. They were upset that NMFS and the council dropped all considerations of protections for these species even though there were clear indications they were in trouble and likely overfished. "I'm tired of seeing the council and the fisheries service do what they always do and delay and delay and delay, and take no action until it's too late," Flaherty said. Hastbacka has seen the efficiency of the herring fleet firsthand. "They came in the day after the commercial striped bass season ended and wiped out all those herring," Hastbacka said. "It's clear with river herring, that there's an issue." The plaintiffs wanted NMFS to set annual catch limits for these species and draw up measures to penalize the fishery when it exceeded those limits as required by federal law. They argued that, because river herring and shad were caught with Atlantic herring they should have been included with that species in a fishery management plan. The plaintiffs also claimed NMFS hadn't used the best available science as required because their annual catch limits for Atlantic herring didn't take into account the importance of herring as a food source for other species. The court remedy is less clear in that Amendment 5 could address some of these issues, including bycatch and oversight of fishing vessels and their catch, Fleming said. Other remedies are still being negotiated. Copyright © Cape Cod Media Group, a division of Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
  4. Don't like Deer Hair. Love me some Fishair for tying jigs.
  5. As far as colors go, Dark Red, Fluorescent Red or Pink, followed by Bubblegum. I don't think color matters as much as what is hanging off the hook.
  6. Make my own tube 'n worm rigs. The head always incorporates some weight, usually 1oz. Fish Gulp sand worm or Uncle Josh off the hook. Had many successes fishing this way. Fish probably 60% with this rig.
  7. Received. Once again, many thanks Dan! Beautiful job.
  8. Eli and HOF in the same sentence? Muahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
  9. Thanks for looking! Need a few Cannonballs in 8 - 10 - 12 - 16oz sizes.
  10. Hiya Dan, Could I get 6 ea. of the 1 and 1 1/2 oz. jigs. Thanks so much! Tim
  11. Up before dawn but not clamming before sunrise, right?
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