I just heard from a friend who went on his first fishing charter. It was an overnight bus ride to Mass. They were out for porgies and blacks. My friend hooked and landed a nine plus pound black and according to him the capt. gave him a earful about releasing the fish because it was close to spawning time. My friend told the capt. to weight the fish now for the pool and he would release the capt. wouldn't weight for the pool, he just wanted to release the fish, but that didn't happen. But back to my point, on the run back to the dock my freind brought all of the days catch back to be cleaned. The mate was charging $20.00 for a 5 gal. bucket of porgies and he wanted $20.00 to fillet the blackfish.
I have not been on a party boat for a number of years, but I never recall the mates charging to clean the fish. We always tipped the mates for the day as a group, and I always tipped the mate that cleaned and filleted the fish for me.
Is the mate charging to clean fish the norm? or is this just a horror story?
All the information provided is second hand, I personnal was not there.
I have not been on a party boat for a number of years, but I never recall the mates charging to clean the fish. We always tipped the mates for the day as a group, and I always tipped the mate that cleaned and filleted the fish for me.
Is the mate charging to clean fish the norm? or is this just a horror story?
All the information provided is second hand, I personnal was not there.