Tide change is more qualified than I to comment on ling size, but charter skippers have a tendency to repeat what has filled the boat last time...and they go back, and they go back and eventually overfish the ground, fish get smaller as the season goes on. People that have their own boats will take the time and fuel to explore, take their lumps on days when the exploring doesn't work out well, but that's who wins the derby's...so I'd say they are down 'there', but 'there' may not be under a charter hull. The biggest ling I've ever seen in my life was taken out of a Dolosse jetty by a young man poke-poling, dangerous, but he didn't need no stinking boat.
