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I have seen that video before. Its a great one. Typical dead fish hauled up for the camera and the weights of the fish is all off. But a great insight into the past.
I did some research a while ago:
the Cutty fisherman was Coot Hall---a famous Cutty Charter Captain. I found this on him from that infamous New York Times Article on Cuttyhunk:
In the morning, the breeze was up and we were out on the boat with Mr. Borges casting flies into the rocks. He first came to Cuttyhunk when he was 16 to work for Irwin Winslow Hall, a legendary striped bass charter captain known as Coot. ''I did everything for old Coot,'' Mr. Borges said, ''pumped gas, made up eel-skin rigs for trolling, and eventually ran my own charters.''
Turns out that Coot was responsible for developing the famous Cuttyhunk wooden Bass Boats. A Montauk fisherman named Otto Scheer first took NJ skiff designs and developed a bass boat named the "Punkinseed" for Montauk. He was one of the first to fish in boats close to the shore and his boat could bounce off boulders. It was lost in the 39 Hurricane and rebuilt. Coot Hall was visiting Montauk and saw the boat and had one built by the Lyman Boat Co. of New Bedford. The boat you see in the video is probably that boat. The boats developed and were perfected by Ernie Mackenzie who made the Mackenzie Bass boats.
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