[Goose]

Imo the lobster for bait theory seems impractical. Big bait does eqaul bigger fish so why not just use the biggest eels you can find or bigger scup, pogies macks ect.? Where you put those offerings is often more important. I watched an awsome show about lobsters filmed in Maine, as the lobster fisherman threw the shorts over an underwater diver filmed the lobster desended, what looked like 20# bass where picking them off half way down. I think if you where to throw lobsters in most fishing spots you'ld get the same results.
Those guys on Cutty waaay back where proably great fisherman but did they have the resources we have now? If they had a method of keeping 100's of eels or fresh supply of pogies I gota beleive they would have not made lobster the bait of choice. Imo they're #'ers back then would have been greater. If you read some of the old logs like the ones of ''3 sister's'', those #'ers where good but all things considered I thought they would have been better.