Two things I’m impressed with: 1) The hard work you and your crew puts in to abide by the laws and regulations governing the fisheries you work in. It’s an investment in the future that, given human nature, not everyone is willing to make. Your willingness to show the world, via RU-vid, that it CAN be done is a great service. 2) The genuine fun you and you crew always seem to have as you work. It’s a joy to see. Thanks,
Love love love your videos! I'm a conservationist & environmentalist by nature and try very hard to educate myself on the different farming, fishing & meat growing, and collection practices before I make a decision and become critical. You my friend have made me aware it's not always black & white and that you can earn a living doing something a lot of people are critical of, and do it in a manner that shows you care just as much as me. Thank you for getting sunken boats, old 4X4,s($$$Cha Ching LOL), and all the junk you come across out of our waters. I wish Discovery+ or even History Channel (as your always teaching us your history❤) should do a show about you and your crew and all you do besides Lobster fish. Thank You again for everything you do to help our Eastern Waters, showing people how to be responsible fishermen & taking the time and work it takes to record it all and get it out there for us to see!
Amazing video, Jacob! I grew up in Downeast Maine, was a sternman at 11 years old with Tomcat Gordon from Gordon's Wharf by the bridge. Around 1988, bluefish chased pogeys all the way up to Tidal Falls. They were so thick you could almost walk across them! I think the bluefish pushed them up on shore in other places by the thousands and it became quite an issue when they started to rot in the summer sun!🤢🤮 Look forward to more videos!
You could been listed as educational. As a middle of the nation person I've lean so much in the 2 months since l found your videos. Thank you. Mostly I love your smile and joy in sharing what you do.
I loved this SO much. I'm so grateful for the experiences and education you give us through sharing your days, with all the little details and steps you take. Every part of your job just seems fascinating... even the gritty and grimy parts. lol Every day is a potential adventure and new learning experience out on the water. And the fact you're so genuinely focused and dedicated to sustainable fishing is what honestly makes this the most truly enjoyable.♥
I've recently discovered and love your channel. Here in New Jersey in the Sandy Hook arm of the Raritan Bay we used to have a huge commercial menhaden fishery industry. It's cool to still see somebody pulling bunkers since it went bust here decades ago and the Atlantic Highlands turned into rich suburbs full of snobs taking the high speed Sea Streak to commute into the City. Good to see the Northeast still has good salty traditional fishermen like you out on the water. Discovery channel oughta give you a show; you'd rock it cos you're such a salt of the earth guy. Love the videos with your family; I got three kids including two little men myself. Keep doing what you do; fair winds and following seas, brother.
If this was picked up by the discovery channel they’d wanna script everything and the’d ruin it.I think RU-vid is way better! That way the channel gets the money not the network.
We had a commercial menhaden operation here off North Carolina. I got to see the proceedure one time. As the narrator explained and some tactics that weren't, first a spotter aircraft finds the largest schools of bait fish they can radioing location to closest purse seine ships that drops smaller craft to encircle whole school. Then a large pipe that acts as a vacuum cleaner sucks the bait aboard leaving.nothing but gazillions of scales for larger game fish to eat.
I'm a person who works with string as a hobby and has tried her hand at a few types of netmaking. It's very refreshing to hear a outdoorsman say, "at some point I gotta remember how to mend, and it might as well be today". I'm glad you can reduce the cost of bait by effectively catching it yourself!
I do a little lobstering with a friend who has a boat. Out of Seabrook NH harbor. The price of bait has skyrocketed in the last couple of years. A bin of pogeys used to be $40.....now it is 100+. We use cow hides and whatever else we can get. Nice to get your own bait. By the way how much by-catch do you get with the pogeys? How much are you allowed in Maine? Thanks for the lobster videos.
That was so cool! My late Grandfather was a Waterman from southern Maryland. Had his own oyster bed too. One of my cousins inherited it. I have the tool you used to fix your net. I’m a fiber artist (spinning, weaving, dying, knitting and crochet), so I’m interested in learning how to make a Fishing Net. I enjoyed your “shorts” so much that I subscribed to this channel 😊
That's awsome this will save you money. I was surprised when u said $1,000 a day for bait. Whoever is laughing probably has no experience. You guys do amazing work. Thanks for all you do.
Loved watching you mend the net. I used to help my father sew and mend gill nets to set in the river when I was a child. I always enjoyed watching How deftly his hands worked the needle through the net and around the rope or net to net after string rays got tangled one year.
I love how much of this is covered in a book I read recently called "Benchley" by D. Preston. A lot of it takes place on a lobster boat in the the late 1950s. Just cool to see that some aspects are still the same!
Jacob, my kids and I Iove the vids. You are great at the helm and in front of the lens. Thanks for putting these together. A good idea for a vid might be a tour of the boat and a tutorial on the equipment that you use. I would love to see that
“It wasn’t recording! Do it again!” Man’o’Man Jacob your family jewels 💎 must have disappeared for a few days! LOL 😝 I have to tell ya when you said there’s a big hole I thought you meant the boat! 🛥️ had a big hole! I am from the Blue Canadian Rocky Mountains 🏔️ and suddenly I was a member of the crew- I was devastated for a few seconds until I realized it was the freakin’ net!! I am an ill person with so many medical issues it pisses me off. I used to have an active life until 13 years ago- now I live vicariously through you and others on RU-vid. You have an awesome channel. Love&Friendship from Edmonton Alberta Canada 🇨🇦 😊
Now this was cool! Hard work always pays out. Glad you remembered how to repair your net, and the motor didn't get messed up. But I will tell you I would have died jumping in that water. Damn cold!
Love this channel! Thank you so much! Wish I lived in New England! I just love everything about it! Wish it wasn't so expensive to live there! I am in Florida, and I hate it here. I do love your posts!:))
Love RU-vid for this kind of content. Just a slice of life of a fisherman. Thank you for the commentaries and explanations - it's cool to see how people do their mundane jobs.
You guys are doing something that I’ve always wanted to do all my life I’m only 50 ONLY. But I’ve always wanted to go to Maine and do fishing like that and lobster and all kinds of anything from the sea. All I get is a 50 gallon aquarium with Little neocardinia /cherry shrimp and little fish. That’s as close to my dream I get right now it’s so fun to watch you guys.
I used to be in the Navy, and we had a ton of safety things we had to deal with on our FFG, what are risks you guys have to manage specifically to the fishing boat? I saw him at the aft of your boat letting the net out and I was like oh man that would suck to get tangled in that, made me wonder what kind of precautions and things you guys have to look out for.
top notch videos man... the explanation of the fishery at the beginning, the good footage, the editing, and a little humor in there. we have "bunker" down here in and outside raritan bay so thick you could walk on them. toss anything into a school of them and fill a bucket for crab bait. sometimes reel in half a bunker when the blues or sharks are on the same school.
What an awesome video Jacob! Too bad about the net, but you got your catch and no one was hurt. Glad I started seeing your shorts. Thanks for sharing!!!
Was born and raised on the coast of Maine, but I've moved up into the mountains these days. I miss the ocean sounds in those misty early mornings, thanks for taking me along with you ol' boy! Appreciate it.
WAY COOL!!! (Watching you scoop up the fish!) sorry you had to be towed in though. 🐟 Great job on sewing the net!! I’m a quilter so I understand how hard that was.
Jacob ... put a Y bridle the side of the boat and have your skiff tow you around. The skiffs sole job is to keep that net from collapsing and from in the wheel
Just started watching your videos. Having my background in aviation and programming this is Pretty interesting. Thanks for great content! And thanks for keeping it clean I don’t mind watching this with my kiddos!
Such a nice show, I remember pogies showing up in Belfast in the early 70's, the blue fish and stripers were right there with them, I really enjoy your channel !!
I love smoked herring. Good gravy they are expensive when you can find them. At least here on lake Michigan we have whiting and chubs that are also good smoked. N8t as oily as herring but not bad
The omega boats have been destroying the Chesapeake bay. The factory ships constantly have spills and have been decimating the feed sticks for the rockfish. Purse boats also have a high kill rate of bycatch. You “throw back” the bycatch but it is more often than not already dead from suffocation or being crushed by the load. I know you aren’t a factory ship or omega boat and your way of fishing is much more sustainable Quota can be met with very little bycatch mortality and excess is released unmolested. Kudos.
Yea, never pull on the bag with the small boat if you can help it, it might cause a week of mending twine, and that's an old art in its self, if I had a passport tho, I wood help tie some knots with yea to help fix er up, miss mending twine eye does
I'd never seen pogies in ME til I was back home last week. Haven't been there in summer for 5 years. Bunker everywhere, up and down. Were there bass chasing them? no. But it was still cool to see.
Great video! You are the man to staying in that ice water for so long. You made me cold. Great repair job too, nice to see the do it the right way not a quick fix. How do you store all that bait? Freeze it? How long does all that bait last you?
I think you and the crew do a great job and there will be a big gut expert that says your wrong. Plus some advice, it's knit 1 purl 2 on the weave haha by the way tieing my shoes is tough
