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the narrows is a good spot lots of big fish taken there......the cove thats in the arm of the point behind your location thats the water front property i worked on in there is where i saw the big bass on shore line and like you millbury man i know when its truley a big bass have caught plenty of them to know. Id go with the narrows just watch ice there can take longer to freeze or freeze funny
Do they still nail the fish to a piece of plywood at that derby?
they only do it for people that intend on keeping fish from what ive seen anyone who wants to release can but that only goes for the people fishing right on quabog.......gets tricky when your on another body of water however they update leading weights on WARE radio every hour so you can decide for yourself where u are fishing. If fishing on quabog and you wanna release they put your name and weight of fish on a piece of paper and hang that on the board instead.
nope .....doubt it would make it with stress like that any way just my opinion just need to pay attention to posted weights on radio and be sure its a fish that will place i know what your saying im not one for killing fish unless i eat them regaurdless of winning a derby.....but once a year for this derby i make an exception i know people that will eat anything i catch so it doesnt go to waste and most of all i make sure its big enough
so if you catcha fish at webster lake take it to the bog alive they wont let you take it back to webster to release?
It's illegal to transport live fish in MA unless it's baitfish just a heads up.
just cause it swims away doesnt mean it survived..........stre ss on fish can kill even when they swim off they just die outta sight, hate to disagree with ya but stuffing a fish in a black trunk isnt exactly a fishes jacuzzi lol id bet it dies within an hour of releasing it
imnto saying its 100% live guarantee. im saying its not 100% that it will die. id rather give it a 25% chance to live then a 100% chance to die.
Don't sweat it, mortality rates for hooked fish are about 6% accross the board so 6 put of the 100 fish you release will die. Also agree with dstearns that throwing im a trunk will most likely lead to post release mortality. Lots of info on the web about that stuff.
Thats absolutely 100% false IMO. How do you think people transport fish to have them officially weighed for State Pins? its only illegal to transplant a fish from 1 body of water to another. that has nothing to do with having a live fish in your car to have it weighed somewhere and then release it back in the waters it was originally caught in.
They do it illegally. It'd be awful hard to prove that you caught the fish in the water you're releasing it into. It's just calculated risk if you want to drive around with a fish in a blank trunk. As far as the survival goes and getting busted too.
So let me get this straight.... they require you to bring a fish to an official weigh station to win a state pin, but made it illegal to transport a live fish? Thats entrapment. You cant force people to transport a fish to win a state program but make it illegal to transport said fish to the station.
not trying to knock the derby, but my reason for never entering them is that i guarantee theres already some d***heads out there with fish in coolers that are contenders to be winning fish. Big derbies like this one with big money have guys serious about winning money so they pre fish it the week before and keep big fish alive in tanks/coolers. Sad to say but its true.
What bothers me about this derby is the fact that they NAIL all caught fish in the running to a big board! Really?? it's the only derby I have ever been to that does that... whats the sense? and if a bigger one comes in, toss the dead hanger.... really?bahh humbug to the lions derby... the only reason I have gone is 'cause of the bunch of shanty guys that show up... this year... no thanks..." I'm just sayin "Flaggs!
its the reason i have no state pins. ive let tons of them go.
