Fish always, nicely written...
The reason a lot of our LL fleet wants to fish here is they have small boats. A LL permit can only be tranfered to a boat of the same size and horsepower. So to them the 40-60' boats you heard of last night can not run to the grand bank safely.
As far as bouys go, no bouy guy can fish 35 bouys PERIOD 20 wouldn't even be realistic for the most part. But that is not something you or I can proove that is something we are told by the guys who do it and it is up to you to beleive or not. As far as loosing gear, i'm sure it can happen. But imo it is no worse then all of these fish stories where the line breaks over 50-a few hundred feet away from the hook. Isn't that causing the same thing in the end?