Interesting story. The chappy ferry is the biggest rip off on that island. They do have a borderline mobster dealings early morning. Thats why when I was down there a few weeks ago I insisted on driving over nortons point (now that its finally opened).
THe skunks on the island are more aggresive than the main land because the have no real natural predators. I have had more than one altercation with them before. The barracuda type thing you talked about i saw as well. We were fishing the gut and I snagged one by accident. It looked like a huge needle fish except with large teeth. I have fished the island for 20 years and I have never seen them untill this year.
Strange thing is I had to come back up to Boston and the south shore to get into the larger stripers. It was spotty at best when I was down there. I got a feeling its going to heat up this week into november
