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There is a growing pouplation there apparently, there was a group of probably 60 seals on the beach everyday and the number grows every year they said Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

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Couple more. I took hundreds of photos during the encounter, it was hard knowing where to look as there were whales everywhere, the horizon looked like bowling balls were dropping from the sky with all of the whales blowing spouts of water 40ft in the air. I had to wipe my lens off several times due to them blowing so close we were getting sprayed. Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

Canon Rebel T6i with 2 Canon lenses. An 18-55mm and a 55-250mm zoom. For now the lenses are doing pretty decent but an upgrade is certainly in the future. Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

If we didn't catch a fish the whole second day we were all satisfied after being with the whales for 2 hours. I could spend a week out there with my camera and it'd never get old... Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

We went out of Yarmouth, Yea private charters are a bit pricey, we get a bit of a deal because my buddy knows the guy but typically it's $1500/day. The boat ride out/in is 3 hours, but when you hit them right you can fill every container in the boat in 2 hours, it's insane. Good luck! Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

Yea until you're up close to them you can't truly appreciate their size, even their blowing at the surface is really loud, we could even smell them when they'd come up next to us. Really makes you realize what a microscopic piece of the puzzle you really are in the grand scheme of things... Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

I have video of a whale barely missing the boat on my phone too, it was honestly a bit scary, 4 of us were up on the bow and the whale surfaced within 15ft of the boat and went right under us, if he'd have lifted his tail even a foot or two more it would have hit the boat. The video had it's share of explicit language for sure Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

There was so much blood in the boat you probably could've bled out and not knew it haha Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

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A few pics from our fishing trip to Cape Cod. Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

I have a vacuum sealer but didn't want to spend 3 hours vacuum sealing all of it, and it won't last a year so I'm not too worried about that. These bags were actually how we packed them on the boat to bring home, we've since repacked all of it in smaller portions. 5 of us split the fish up, so roughly 50 lbs per guy is what we ended with. We ate Pollock and haddock for dinner tonight, awesome! Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

This is what 45 gallon size bags of haddock, cod and Pollack fillets looks like... Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

I think they lowered the bag limits but they have to be 24" to keep currently, we didn't get a ton of them but the ones we did get were all over 24" up to 12 lbs. Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

We use my buddy's friend who's ran a charter out of Mass. And Costa Rica for 40 years. He certainly knows his fish. Yea we both jigged and bait rigs with clams. The fishing got so crazy at one point we were dropping 2 bare hook rigs and you couldn't get it to bottom and you'd have two Pollack at a time. We left because we were physically exhausted from them. I'd estate we have around 350-400 lbs of fillets. Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

Another morning out of cape cod, we kept 50 haddock and a cod, threw back untold amounts of Pollock. Ended up in the middle of 100 humpback whales, so close it was nerve racking, they would blow at the surface and get us wet, kept full breaching etc... I'll post up some pictures when I get home and edit them. A ridiculous day and one none of us will ever forget. Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

More pics to come, but we just filleted 191 cod, haddock and Pollock, tossed a ton back, had whales all over us today and the sea was dead flat! Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

I'll be out in the Atlantic off of Boston so it should be a bit cooler out there! Hopefully the fishing is as hot as the weather! Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

The bow only public land buck I lost sleep over, the strangest part of the story in my mind, I got married on October 21st, 2016. It just so happens my wife and I both agreed to get married at this same public park, the only picture I got of this buck during light enough to kill him was on my wedding night. It was a rainy, dark day and we were getting married 1/2 mile from my tree stand when he decided to show the one and only time during enough light to shoot. When I hiked in and checked that camera a week later I was at a loss for words, I just sat there for awhile. Smiling and sick at the same time. Well played deer, well played... Here's a couple good pics of that buck. Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

It shouldn't by now but it always amazes me how a deer can be so elusive. How much is luck? How much is intelligence? I found myself hunting the biggest deer I've ever had a picture of a few years ago. Never saw him in person, never heard of anyone taking him. Sitting in that stand though almost felt magical at times, I'd find myself "seeing" him Everytime I sat there. As much as I wanted that deer I almost didn't at the same time. An old monarch of a buck is what dreams are made of and sometimes the thought of the dream ending is bittersweet. I haven't seen that buck since... Another buck I had on camera very regular was a 140's or so 10pt behind my parents house and as much as I was attracted to that deer, oddly enough I never even hunted him, to this day I'm not sure why... That year I was hunting the southern tier opening weekend and got a text that someone had killed him, 75yds off the road, public land, the kids first deer, he walked in on a logging road around 10AM, sat on a log, lit a cigarette and the buck walked straight up to him. I was almost sick at the thought, not that the kid killed him per se, but I guess in my head I expected a better ending for that old buck, even vanishing into some old swamp and dying would have seemed better fitting to me... Maybe at times I have too much respect for these critters, but I don't think so. Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

Haha anything is possible, it's hard to keep a 200" free range rack quiet even when you try I'd think... Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

Wow that's an awesome deer anywhere, I'd throw a guess up somewhere near 200", it makes you wonder for sure when they disappear seemingly quiet. I don't know many or any hunters that would legally kill a buck like that and be able to contain the press on it. Last fall my buddy heard a rumor that someone had shot and killed the buck he was after, months went by with no news or pictures. He was going nuts trying to figure out what happened, and noone will ever know now for sure. But he's for sure dead. Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk