Today’s blue bird weather provided fishers with an extraordinary weather day on the cod grounds aboard the Lady Frances and the fishing was vastly improved over what was experienced both days this weekend, especially on Sunday! Customers had a nice mixed bag that included a nice shot of beautiful cod fish along with a few super size sea flounders, big ocean perch, some slammer scup, and a few red hake and even a couple of good size blue fish. Things have also possibly never looked better for October 22nd. Longtime regular customers Mike from Providence RI and Mike from Queens NY both boxed four good cod apiece. A decent number of fish in the 8 to 12 lb range today with the biggest of the lot just north of the 15 lb mark. Some short cod today as well and while the unmentionables were worth a mention they provided no challenge that a bit of maneuvering could not remedy. Fresh shucked skimmers did the trick today. Gorgeous weather allowed a nice slow drift as well. We are keeping an eye on Friday’s weather right now so call tomorrow afternoon just to make sure the weather will permit as Capt. Rich will be set to sail at 6 am aboard the Gail Frances. Some great pictures today provided courtesy longtime regular customer Ginny Reed.
Tonight’s Tuna trip unfortunately had to be canceled due to a change for the worse in the wind forecast. This would have been the last Tuna trip of the season. It was the toughest season in some time here which has a particular sting coming off of three very strong seasons which at times were reminiscent of the 90’s. We get what we get in fishing. We would like to thank all the Tuna fishers who came with us this year and look forward to a better deep water season in 2017!
Roger