January 2017 President's Message
Here it is, the first of the year, and I understand how Donald and Hilary feel. After a very tough campaign, I won reelection as your president. Jay Pavick, exhausted as well, went to Maine to visit his daughter last week and Long Island to visit his son this week – all to get away from his stressful campaign for the vice-presidency. All this, while Steve Israelian shrugged his shoulders and said, “Let’s go to breakfast at Olympia!” while winning re-election as a member of the Board of Directors.
On January 11 at 6:00 p.m., at the Bourne Community Center, Room 1, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission will hold a hearing on summer fluke. Anyone interested in this fishery should either attend the meeting or go on line and voice their concerns.
I think what you are going to hear going forward is that we as recreational fishermen have to do a better job at self-regulation. An example would be our going to 36” for a striped bass in our In-House Derby, but with a catch and release minimum of 28”. There are approximately 2,500 commercial striped bass licenses issued in the Commonwealth, and usually about 10% of those fishermen catch 90% of the commercial quota in MA. However, one of the things they do by catching that quota is to form up on places like off of Chatham and the Golf Ball down by Marconi Park so that the 600,000 independent recreational anglers know where the fish are lined up. What I mean is that we have to learn to self-regulate if we don’t want to deplete the striped bass fishery even more than we presently have. We can presently keep one striped bass per outing per day, and usually one striped bass will feed your family and the people on either side of you. So seven a week, in my opinion, would lead to waste. Let’s be the example-setters for other people on the Cape and not keep every fish that we catch, whether it’s striped bass, sea bass, fluke, just to name a few.
Some of our events are listed on the webpage for 2017. Besides the hearing this Wednesday, the next big event is the March 11 Awards Banquet at the Doubletree in Hyannis. As I have said over the last few years, you don’t have to receive an award to have this be a good time. There’s the social interaction with wives or significant others and the opportunity to talk about fishing, along with a chance to win some great prizes in our bucket raffles and silent auctions. And we also have the entertaining Bill Cottle with several live auctions. We are starting to get prizes turned in, but any one of you can either send something to me for the Awards Banquet – like a gift certificate – or bring it to the meeting in January or February. Of course, the sooner the better. Examples of prizes being donated this year so far are a used 6’ boat rod from John Sorcenelli, a four-drawer Plano tackle box from Bill and Mary Alice Cottle, a used boat rod and reel from former member Ted Theodores, and a year’s subscription to Fishing My Cape from Ryan Collins.
The past two years we have had 95 and 97 attendees, so this year we would like to have a number exceeding 100. If you have not come before, print out an application and send it in! The Awards Banquet is our only fundraiser of the year, and it supports our three scholarships and the other donations we make during the course of the year.
I would be remiss if I didn’t thank all the other elected officers and all our chairmen for the great job they have done over the last twelve months. Thanks to all!
Thanks, and hold tight!
Jack (jecreighton45@gmail.com, 508 394-2983)
P.S. John Sorcenelli would be mad at me if I didn’t mention the May 7 Haddock Trip on the Captain John. The application is on our website at capecodsalties.org.
On January 11 at 6:00 p.m., at the Bourne Community Center, Room 1, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission will hold a hearing on summer fluke. Anyone interested in this fishery should either attend the meeting or go on line and voice their concerns.
I think what you are going to hear going forward is that we as recreational fishermen have to do a better job at self-regulation. An example would be our going to 36” for a striped bass in our In-House Derby, but with a catch and release minimum of 28”. There are approximately 2,500 commercial striped bass licenses issued in the Commonwealth, and usually about 10% of those fishermen catch 90% of the commercial quota in MA. However, one of the things they do by catching that quota is to form up on places like off of Chatham and the Golf Ball down by Marconi Park so that the 600,000 independent recreational anglers know where the fish are lined up. What I mean is that we have to learn to self-regulate if we don’t want to deplete the striped bass fishery even more than we presently have. We can presently keep one striped bass per outing per day, and usually one striped bass will feed your family and the people on either side of you. So seven a week, in my opinion, would lead to waste. Let’s be the example-setters for other people on the Cape and not keep every fish that we catch, whether it’s striped bass, sea bass, fluke, just to name a few.
Some of our events are listed on the webpage for 2017. Besides the hearing this Wednesday, the next big event is the March 11 Awards Banquet at the Doubletree in Hyannis. As I have said over the last few years, you don’t have to receive an award to have this be a good time. There’s the social interaction with wives or significant others and the opportunity to talk about fishing, along with a chance to win some great prizes in our bucket raffles and silent auctions. And we also have the entertaining Bill Cottle with several live auctions. We are starting to get prizes turned in, but any one of you can either send something to me for the Awards Banquet – like a gift certificate – or bring it to the meeting in January or February. Of course, the sooner the better. Examples of prizes being donated this year so far are a used 6’ boat rod from John Sorcenelli, a four-drawer Plano tackle box from Bill and Mary Alice Cottle, a used boat rod and reel from former member Ted Theodores, and a year’s subscription to Fishing My Cape from Ryan Collins.
The past two years we have had 95 and 97 attendees, so this year we would like to have a number exceeding 100. If you have not come before, print out an application and send it in! The Awards Banquet is our only fundraiser of the year, and it supports our three scholarships and the other donations we make during the course of the year.
I would be remiss if I didn’t thank all the other elected officers and all our chairmen for the great job they have done over the last twelve months. Thanks to all!
Thanks, and hold tight!
Jack (jecreighton45@gmail.com, 508 394-2983)
P.S. John Sorcenelli would be mad at me if I didn’t mention the May 7 Haddock Trip on the Captain John. The application is on our website at capecodsalties.org.
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