Capt. Rich was pleased to report an excellent day of sea bass fishing with lots of quality sea bass with a few real whoppers to nearly 5lbs. Most anglers had easily six to ten nice sea bass apiece with some doing even better with a few getting upwards to a full limit. On the fluke side of things there was a behemoth 30 inch speed bumb like 12lb pool winner for Tim Draper from Bethel CT who had five other fine keeper fluke and at least a dozen nice sea bass to fill his cooler right up. Well done Tim! Tim was fishing a hi lo rig with just a strip of squid and a spearing on each hook. First mate Chris K did say that all terminal gear was effective with the long leader bait rigs really doing well later in the trip when the drift picked up. There were a couple of other nice fluke in the 7 to 8lb range with others in the jumbo category but the sea bass like yesterday stole the show. A handful of gator size blue fish into the low and mid teens plus a few big scup were additional points of interest today. Tomorrow is another day and Capt. Rich will set sail on the Gail Frances at 7am. A pic of the 12lb pool fish appears courtesy of Roger.
Capt. Frank was at the helm of this morning’s half day trip this morning and he reported the porgy fishing was just off the charts!! Big and little scup and in between scup and some nice sea bass and lots of small sea bass kept the anglers remarkably busy today!! In fact Capt. Cory himself caught over 100 fish on the half day!! Wow!! Tomorrow we offer a half day porgy and sea bass trip (maybe a late inning fluke will jump on too!) at 8am. There is just one half day tomorrow at 8am.
Looks like some great weather this upcoming holiday weekend and we begin our full day porgy trips on Saturday! We will be sailing daily at 7am for porgies starting this coming Saturday September 1st. So in addition to the full day porgy trip there will also be the Gail Frances for full day fluke/sea bass at 7am.
The half day schedule for the holiday weekend is as follows: Friday 8am to Noon. Saturday 8am to Noon. Sunday and Monday 8am to Noon and 1pm to 5pm. These will be generally targeting porgies/sea bass.
The first Tuna trip is due back tomorrow so be on the lookout for a fresh report by later in the afternoon. Next Tuna trip or blue water adventure is set to sail this coming Monday Night at 10pm.