Yesterday,
Leo, t.orlando, and I go out early in Boston harbor.
Leo fights 1 ok fish early in the day, then later after gassing up/eating some breakfast and the tide changed I head to a spot, we make 1 pass and Tony gets another ok fish.
Then we start to watch this very large lobster/charter boat who was anchored up and chunking up in front of us.
Every time we looked over, this guy had fish on, doubled and tripled up lots of times.
At 1st I kept thinking, wow this guy is hammering fish
Nowthere are 4 guys on the charter plus the capt. (5 total)
We kept watching as we were trolling near him and fish kept coming and coming into his boat.
But what was disturbing, every fish they caught was gaffed (killed) by the capt.
This capt had to have caught a commercial limit (30 fish) in less than 2 hrs.
Problems are, commercial season ended last week and there were only 5 guys on the boat!
Then we watch the capt call over a few other boats and hand off fish, 4 fish to 1 boat , 2 to another. ect...
We get closer because now we are pissed because he's breaking the law, and for me killing, dozens of fish from a spot that I fish!
I'm looking in the boat for my camera, but thought I left it in my truck as we had thoughts of calling the green police!
We go over and get very close to get the name on the boat and/or doc #s.
I start a conversation with the capt asking if he was a charter boat, the name of his charters, boat name, where he keeps the boat, ect...
They ask us if we wanted some fish, we say no.
As I'm driving slowly away, we watch them dump fish (dead that they had gaffed) off the open transom back into the water!
I got most the info from the boat and info off the boats that took the fish.
I'm mulling it over to call the environmental police or not, but without proof and them not being caught in the act, it will most likely be a waste of time, not to mention me being a charter boat in Boston also
could cause me some backlash !
Turns out, my digital camera was in a small cooler we had instead of my carry on bag that was in my truck.
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