KG:
Live lining macks certainly has been the recent answer in Ptown, has it not?
Son, his bud, and I enjoyed it immensely for the past three days. Little spooky, but civil with the number of boats present.
Bob
Well hey now and ahoy there! Wasn't expecting anyone here to recognize the location, much less one that was actually in and amongst the same flotilla of vessels out there. How cool! Mind if I ask which/what type of rig you were out on? We were aboard the white cc Seacraft with the T-top, shucking and dodging gingerly and respectfully with the rest of the fleet on drifts.
And you're dead right about everyone being downright gentlemanly out there. As you know all too well I'm sure, that's not always the case, by a long shot, particularly on commercial days. The shytshow spectacular circus is something to behold at times. Not in a good circus kind of way...
Considering how busy it was, I was downright pleased with how well-behaved everyone was. Makes for a lot more fun.
Pity the effin' whaleboat skippers don't mind their manners in such a way. If whales are scarce but for a couple here and there, and you're near one that suddenly blows on top, lookout. Buggers will come around and go WOT, not giving a shyt for the small vessels their boats toss their 6 foot wakes over. I'm glad I was paying attention to the one that did exactly that, and I had the wherewithal to shout a heads-up warning to Doc Rock and the lad to grab a rail and hold fast before one sent up a stiff set of rollers that hit us on the nose.
Anyway, small world sometimes. Hit me with a PM if you care to; happy to share intel on any hot bites. I'm out of the North Shore/Merrimack river area. My rig's slipped at McKenzie's in ABY just upriver of the I95 bridge, but I run with crews from the Cape a lot. And yeah, the live macks were the ticket, though the boys had a little trouble setting hooks until the skipper decided to bridle the macks instead of just bare-hooking them. Note the rigging needle in the skipper's mouth in the one pic. The heavy fish of the day, however, I hooked on a tin (crippled herring) speed jigged through the water column in about 80'.