Originally Posted By: ned
Good for us...until they close the season early like in MA 9 last year.

I'd support a 2-pole for solo saltwater fishermen, but I don't agree with 6 poles out in a 3 man boat. It's just going to shorten the seasons.

My friends with fast boats ran to PT Townsend last year several times, and came back with limits every time, while the southern end started OK, but then closed because of all the fish caught a little farther north.

The seasons are set on quotas, not on harvesting all the hatchery fish.


Understandable for the trout dock fishermen. May need to change something there. For the boaters and in the salt and estuaries it doesn't matter. A limit is a limit. All it can do for you is get you off the water faster. As far as MA 9 last year, the fish didn't move out of MC Bank. Fluke IMO. Sometimes you have to travel. WDFW fixed that by reducing the limit to 1 H King this year. That reduction sucks if you ask me. Solo guys can manage and should get to fish w/ 2 rods. IMO it's pretty tough to manage 6 rods w/ 3 guys. Chinese fire drill set up mess with that much out.
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