[LobsterD]

Pre-dawn is my favorite time of day, it's just me and the birds --- and the clam and scallopers getting ready to sail -- if they haven't left already!

 

[Hunt n' Fish]

Nice pic Dick.

I was curious what you guys use for bait? I've heard debates between fresh and rotten, bunker to skate.

Chris

 

[LobsterD]

Top of my list would be fresh herring,very hard to come by nowadays especally the right quantity at the right time,then bunker then work yourself down the bait chain from there.
I've been using bunker for years,bought in bulk fresh then salted and stored in the barrel. After a little pickeling, ummm ummm good smelly bunker

A shame we don't have smello-vision or I'd give you a wiff

 

[Gaucho]

Go get them Dick

Nice Pic

 

[MakoMike]

LobsterD wrote:
Top of my list would be fresh herring,very hard to come by nowadays especally the right quantity at the right time,then bunker then work yourself down the bait chain from there.
I've been using bunker for years,bought in bulk fresh then salted and stored in the barrel. After a little pickeling, ummm ummm good smelly bunker

A shame we don't have smello-vision or I'd give you a wiff

I think I've smelled that brew a couple of times before. I'll pass on the smell-o-vision, thanks!

 

[Hunt n' Fish]

LobsterD wrote:
I've been using bunker for years, bought in bulk fresh then salted and stored in the barrel. After a little pickeling, ummm ummm good smelly bunker

That's what I thought was the rotten bait. So with enough salt in the bunker, they aren't rotting in a barrel packed outside in the heat all season? I guess not to some extent since it's "good smelly bunker."

 

[GloucesterToo]

MakoMike wrote:

I think I've smelled that brew a couple of times before. I'll pass on the smell-o-vision, thanks!

All of Point Jude

 

[MakoMike]

Actually the big lobster bait dealer in Pt Jude is selling mostly skates now. I've watched that poor schlep out on the dock in the hot sun gutting and salting those skates for hours at a time. I think I'd rather be breaking rocks.

 

[LobsterD]

Umm, so Hunt n' Fish, you don't use scent when you "hunt" ??
MM, luckly, I still got a hook in the water catching an early spring run of bunker off the beach -- not fishing as hard as I use to so 100-150 barrels gets me thru.

Reload a little in the fall.

LOL

credit to the shutterbug --

 

[canyonfvr]

Dick,

You store a 100/150 barrels of bunker outside in the summer

 

[MakoMike]

LobsterD wrote:
Umm, so Hunt n' Fish, you don't use scent when you "hunt" ??
MM, luckly, I still got a hook in the water catching an early spring run of bunker off the beach -- not fishing as hard as I use to so 100-150 barrels gets me thru.

Reload a little in the fall.

LOL

credit to the shutterbug --

Dick,
How much gear you running?