Karl, Arnold Laine was eccentric. He had a wind up record player in his truck and would listen to classical music and popular music of the day while tucked into some notch in the dunes between fishing. No weather was too bad and he pioneered launching samll tin boats in the surf to get to fish on the outer bars up in the Peaked Hill country. He would go out in a twelve footer with a piece of plywood which he would lay across the gunnels and sleep on while waiting for the tide. He was very quiet, almost shy. He was resourcefull as well. He made his own plugs which he called "Beaver cuttings" and Stan Kuzia told me of an eel rig Laine made himself that he used that just murdered bass. Stan has one. He was a market fisherman. From when they showed in the spring until they left in the fall. From the Canal to Race Point and everywhere in between. He was from Templeton MA. and when he decided to give up commercial bass fishing he went to work at Starret Machine in Athol, near Templeton until retirement.
He was so good Bob Pond came out with an Atom 40 called the Arnold Laine special. It came with a hole in the plug with which you stuffed with cotton soaked in Arnold's "special bass attractent" and had instructions from Arnold on how to use it. He put tons of bass on the beach and Frank Woolner told me on the beach he was the best that ever lived. That was saying something.
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