[slammer]

went fishing to the mouth of the Merrimack river sunday before the storms. Got a lesson in navigating in the fog as well but thats another story. We were drifting live macks which we caught off sailsbury...they are everywhere by the way. on our first drift my buddy hooked into a nice fish but his line was wrapped all around his reel...i had to take the spool off to untangle the line letting out slack line and all. the fish then swam under the boat and got wrapped in the prop of the motor. when all was said and done we netted the 32" fish with the hook securely in the corner of the fishes mouth. i am positive he wouldn't have gotten that fish if we hadn't been using circle hooks. a few drifts later the only live mack we had left was about a 15" so he figured what the hell and threw it out there. BAM...right away we hooked into a nice fish which ran in the opposite direction of our drift for about 100 yards. it them swam so fast at our boat that he my buddy could keep up and again a bunch of slack was created. when he finally caught up the fish was still there...36" 20#. we ended up with like 6 fish in a few hours. all hooked in the corner of the mouth. got to give it up to circle hooks!!!