Category: Fishermen Profiles

Busty Brancleone’s Right Hand

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There are books written about people that make themselves out to be hard core fishermen but really they use fishing as an excuse to bum around the wharf and docks but don’t put the time in.

See this hand?

The man that this hand belongs to is the kind of guy a book about a real fisherman should be written about. A man that could tell countless stories about fishing in real weather in ridiculous conditions.

It’s too bad that armchair fishermen get the glory when the guys that deserve the glory never get mentioned.

Guys like Busty Brancleone. The real deal.

Busty Brancleone’s Right Hand, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

CJ Morgante- Day Two Aboard The Lady J

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If you’ve been following along you know that CJ Morgante, Major League Soccer Referee asked for the real Lobsterman experience. Frank set him up on three different boats to go lobstering in three days. That’s pretty cool if you ask me for a boy from Pennsylvania with no ties to Gloucester to just roll up here and hop aboard the boats and get to it.

Day Two- Aboard The Lady J with Captain Dave Jewell and mate Goulart.

CJ Morgante- Day Two Aboard The Lady J, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Don’t forget to watch The New England Revolution match with DC United on Wednesday night.   CJ will be on the field.

CJ Looks On While The Bait Gets Loaded

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Early in the morning and CJ is raring to go.

CJ Looks On While The Bait Gets Loaded, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

CJ Morgante Prepares To Go Lobstering With The Freemantle Doctor

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Here’s CJ Morgante, MLS soccer ref preparing to go lobstering for the day with Mike Tupper aboard The Freemantle Doctor.  Mike said he did pretty good banding the lobsters and kept up the pace which isn’t always the case with a greenhorn.

CJ Morgante Prepares To Go Lobstering With The Freemantle Doctor, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Paul “Big Cat” Movalli With Rod That Landed The Thresher Shark

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This is the rod that Paul Movalli landed the huge thresher shark with a couple weeks back.  For the slide show with the shark click this text

Paul “Big Cat” Movalli With Rod That Landed The Thresher Shark, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Fishermen Tattoos- Jerry McKay

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Fishermen Tattoos- Jerry McKay, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Toby Burnham Checks This Bluefish’s Guts To See What It’s Been Eating

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Toby Burnham Checks This Bluefish’s Guts To See What It’s Been Eating, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Peter Mondello Making A New Setting Table

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Here’s Pete Mondello and Billy working on a new setting table for the Allison Carol.

When Pete hauls his ten pot trawls he will stack the pots along that setting table after they have been re-baited and then he will set the traps off the back of this “setting table”

Peter Mondello Making A New Setting Table, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Fishermen Tattoo- Jerry McKay

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Here’s one of Jerry McKay’s tattoos.

Fishermen tattoos- Jerry McKay, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

Gloucester Perspectives -Susie Byrd Part II

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Part Two of Gloucester Perspectives Interview with Susie Byrd. Susie talks about her day fishing and lobstering and also how the captain knows when to haul back the trawl on a dragger.

Gloucester Perspectives- Susie Byrd

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Part One of our interview with Susie Byrd. Backwoman extrodinaire who currently fishes the back of the boat for Dave Goetterman aboard The Black Sheep.

Pablo- Striper Assasin!

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It’s been much slower on the striper front this year compared to last but every once in a while Pablo manages to land one.

God only knows how. He doesn’t hide the hook inside the chunk of herring, he just hooks it right through the side of the herring with the rest of the hook exposed. Most stripers are too smart to fall for that. They are generally very suspicious of anything that does not look natural floating through the water and to land a big fish more times than not you have to carefully plant that hook inside the bait so none of that hook is visible outside of the chunk of bait.

But every once in a while you get that suicidal striper that tosses inhibition to the side and dive bombs at Pablo’s hook.

Sucker!

Pablocito- Striper Assasin!, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

“It’s a hard night’s work”- Boston Globe Article

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“ By Steven Rosenberg

Globe Staff / August 10, 2008

(Editor’s note: Globe reporter Steven Rosenberg recently joined Mark Carroll for a night of fishing off Gloucester.)

GLOUCESTER – Mark Carroll can’t explain why he’s still fishing. He can’t put into words how he fell in love with a profession that has put his life in danger too many times at sea, claimed a lot of his bank account, and his marriage.”

For the rest of the article click this text to go to the Boston Globe site

Joe Mondello Readies The Boat To Go Lobstering

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You see how the traps are all set along the outside rail of the boat?  Joe is going to set out some gear today. This is a ten pot trawl and all those traps are connected by a ground line with buoys at each end to mark where the traps are set in the ocean so when he goes back out he can find them by looking for his specially painted buoys.

Joe Mondello Readies The Boat To Go Lobstering, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Andy Kippen- Gloucester Lobsterman

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Andy would like to know what the readers think of the “love brush”.  Should he keep it or shave it?

Andy Kippen- Gloucester Lobsterman, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Russell Sherman Aboard The Lady Jane

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Here’s Russell!

Russell Sherman Aboard The Lady Jane, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Lady Jane

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The Stern of Russell Sherman’s Lady Jane.  Over the next few days there will be a series of pictures of the crew- Stevie, Mikey, Russell, and Ringo.  Russell was one of the Gloucester captains featured on “After The Catch” the show with the roundtable discussions with the captains from “The Deadliest Catch”

Lady Jane, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Nick Novello Guides Tuna Up The Hoist

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Nick Novello Guides Tuna Up The Hoist, originally uploaded by captjoe06.