Whats the top lobster bait out there besides herring?

BLOOFISH,,,,been lobsterin fa more years than I can count...think OIL.

Man Cape your fast, bloo's are on my list but the SeaCraft(Merc :af:) is laid up at Nauset awaiting an engine repair, probably a couple more weeks :af: if you see a guy in pleasant bay in a old(60's) green whaler with a 15 on it thats me in my double secret emergency back up boat :D as soon as I get the other boat back look out bloos! Until then I got my cool green lobstah boat :D

Best bait would be a rag, that's right, a rag. But it's gotta be soaked first in menhaden oil. But with the shortage of menhaden these days I would never buy pogie oil since companies like Omega Protein have sucked up all the pogies. But it works like a charm from what they tell me ;)

skate will fish alot longer than herring or pogey, codfish racks work well too. there is a place over by joe's lobster in sandwich (the other side of the marina) that sells some kind of bait for lobsters in 5 gallon pails. believe it is kinda like chum

come to think of it a friend of mine was useing cow skin soaked in something, yeh it still had the hair on it too, black an white, lasted for a couple of weeks, bought it around here somewhere.

you go back the nauset an tell jay gross to get off his ar$$ an get your motor done, ace mech. but slow as a snail.

You ask for advice on "BEST" Lobster bait.
There are maybe 8,500 lobster persons and every one has their own "Best Bait".

My best is Striped Bass Racks.
I would put a cheap plastic barrel at your local fish cutting station at the marinas in your area and collect the left overs daily. You will have more bait than you can use.
Lobsters hate Stripers and when one gets dead in the water they attack with a vengeance!
Try a Scientific experiment.
Bait one trap with a oily rag, one trap with a Bass carcass, one trap with Yellow Tail frames or such from a fish house, bait a trap with blue fish frames. compare the results and you will know the bait to use in your area.

If you see me toss me a bucket of throw backs for this advice! Thanks

Then there is the old story of the guy who lost his wife over board in the Bay. They found her body a few days later with 6 Lobsters attached.
The Distraught Husband said to clear the Lobsters off her and reset her again!

everything works.

:)

spent far too many years lobstering with my dad
used everything under the sun (aka whatever was cheap/whatever was caught)

it all worked!


conger eel is mighty tasty though

not everything works, a guy who owns a tackle shop here cleaned out his freezer of chicken, tureky, elk, didn't get one lobsta:smash:

It funny that you mention that Slip, I was thinking today in Cape's first post he said "think oil" and I saw mennhadden oil the other day at the tackle shop and though about soaking a rag in it and tying it in a few knots to help it last a little longer. and stuffing it in there with a herring, which by the way have been working Ok for the last four weeks but I'm going to run out eventually. I'm gonna try a couple of differant things and try to keep track of whats really hot. Maybe there will be good news on the boat this week and I can get some big blues. Serves me right having the thing in the water the first of April for a shakedown cruise I was ready to soon, Murphys law caught up to me.

capesams:

yanno, chicken and such have actually worked in some places... alot of spider crabs in the trap, but a couple lobsters too

offshore you get congers enmass if you throw some chicken in sometimes...

*shrug*

like i said it all works... didn't say WHERE it works ;)