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11-05-2004, 03:36 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: everett ma
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mackeral time
loads of big macks off boston right now hope the wind lets up bass cod and maybe a big bluefin will be underneath them good luck santini
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11-06-2004, 10:16 AM
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Is it May yet?
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Gloucester Ma
Posts: 1,238
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hey pete,
any reports of macs in and around Beverly/Salem harbors? Been getting some in Gloucester but nothing like last year.
thanx for any info
spin
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"Twitch....Twitch....Twitch....WHAM!"
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11-06-2004, 01:11 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: North shore
Posts: 1,247
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Beverly/Salem Harbor
The Macs are there. I'v been doing a bunch of "plug testing" at the docks at the end of Bridge Street on the Beverly side. Always see a few. Salem Harbor has had birdsd working over them the past few days as well. Check the Danvers River. They're probably up in there too.
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11-06-2004, 01:41 PM
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"Fishbucket"
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Bahston Hahbah
Posts: 6,588
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there just outside the hahbah!
nice big fat ones too 
mike
Last edited by thefishingfreak; 02-05-2006 at 03:08 PM..
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11-06-2004, 01:43 PM
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"Fishbucket"
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Bahston Hahbah
Posts: 6,588
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massive schools of 'em too
Last edited by thefishingfreak; 02-05-2006 at 03:08 PM..
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11-06-2004, 02:32 PM
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DDG-51
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 3,550
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salt em when you save them and they keep the color and toughen the skin.
I love fishing live macks. Great pics Freak, thanks.
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11-06-2004, 06:06 PM
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M.S.B.A.
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: I live in the Villiage of Hyannis in the Town of Barnstable in the Commonwealth of MA
Posts: 2,795
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FF...but did you geet Bass trolling them....any size out there
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"It is impossible to complain and to achieve at the same time"--Basic Patrick (on a good day)
 
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11-06-2004, 06:26 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: MA - Ol' New England - USA
Posts: 791
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Yummmmmmmmmy - sushi, or smoked. 
Nice pics, TFF. |
Ray 'md2020'
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11-06-2004, 09:16 PM
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"Fishbucket"
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Bahston Hahbah
Posts: 6,588
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Quote:
Originally posted by BasicPatrick
FF...but did you geet Bass trolling them....any size out there
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nope, and i dragged two of them from nahant, all the way to hull.
no signs of life out there, accept the cormarants stacked up buy the thousands outside graves.
mackeral fishin' is fun |
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11-06-2004, 09:36 PM
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"Fishbucket"
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Bahston Hahbah
Posts: 6,588
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Quote:
Originally posted by maddog2020
Yummmmmmmmmy - sushi, or smoked.
Nice pics, TFF.
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umm, dood, thats the bait 
i don't eat it 
but mr. chummer loves the stuff  |
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11-06-2004, 09:37 PM
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viva the plug-o-lution
Join Date: May 2002
Location: notsob
Posts: 3,476
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from last years fall mack run....
got some big bluefish that day too
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live to fish. fish to live. rod tips high.
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11-06-2004, 09:53 PM
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"Fishbucket"
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Bahston Hahbah
Posts: 6,588
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here ya go christian.
i fixed it for ya
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11-06-2004, 09:54 PM
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Plug Paladin
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Jackson, N.J.
Posts: 1,132
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Cool Mack pics. I could have used those great pics to paint from.
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11-06-2004, 09:57 PM
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"Fishbucket"
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Bahston Hahbah
Posts: 6,588
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you and me both SK
i was thinking the same thing 
they are beautiful fish, sooooo many colors.......
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11-06-2004, 10:02 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: everett ma
Posts: 330
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freak fish them deep
mike put them dowm on the bottom with a 8 or 10 oz weight with a fishfinder out past the b-bouy in about 90 feet or so large cod bass or maybe a charlie like last year pete
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11-06-2004, 10:05 PM
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zoom
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Quincy
Posts: 4,145
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Baiting was slow this year, so i still got about 200 lbs whole and ground, in the freezer, plus about another 50-75 lbs in my buddy's freezer.
Grind em' mike, they'll keep till the spring
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Things done at the last possible minute are done with the greatest possible information. Procrastination is, therefore, the most efficient means of doing things.
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11-06-2004, 10:14 PM
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"Fishbucket"
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Bahston Hahbah
Posts: 6,588
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Re: freak fish them deep
Quote:
Originally posted by pete santini
mike put them dowm on the bottom with a 8 or 10 oz weight with a fishfinder out past the b-bouy in about 90 feet or so large cod bass or maybe a charlie like last year pete
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8-10oz?
not today. needed at least 16-18.
i couldn't make it out that far, too windy.  and i had to be home to work on the hunny-do list.
i came bye the shop, but you were out. no macks for u.
mike |
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11-07-2004, 11:51 AM
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Stuck In Reality
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Holden MA
Posts: 4,519
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I remember fishing for them in California as a kid. We would use light tackle and had a ball.
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Go Ugly Early 
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11-07-2004, 04:23 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,649
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smoke those suckers! they are one of THE BEST smoked fish you can eat!!!
I wish they were down here....I remember when 
I got to get up our way come springtime. |
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