Roger thought the fishing today was good aboard the Lady Frances. The bite on the scup and good size sea bass was steady all day however the last half hour the fishing was absolutely off the charts with one of the best big sea bass bites that this angler has seen in quite some time. It was a shame the building sea in response to a freshening southwesterly breeze forced a slightly early return however the day was made and we can certainly say with left them biting with a vengeance!! Numerous sea bass limits were easily attained around most of the Lady Frances today. Biggest sea bass close to or just exceeding the 5 lb mark with numerous others over 3lbs. Real nice quality today!! Not much in the way of cod today but the biggest was a fine fat green fish in the mid teens. The porgies were of fair to good size today but not really what we would call hubcaps but those who fished smaller baits and smaller hooks easily put a dozen to fifteen nice size scup in their bags and coolers to make a nice compliment to the jumbo sea bass catches. Plenty of good size ocean perch and a nice mess of fair to good size blue fish mixed in which added some extra sport today. Perhaps best of all there was only one unmentionable all day! A few pics provided today courtesy of Roger. Next sea bass and cod expedition is set to sail Monday morning at 7am aboard the Lady Frances.
Capt. Mike reported a nice day of local togging with some good catches made and the biggest fish of the day tipping the scales at around ten pounds. There were at least a few limit catches and plenty of short tog kept things nice and busy today. One keeper cod and a bunch of just keeper size sea bass added to the black fish bounty. In fact one angler said he limited out on keeper size sea bass using clams in addition to getting some nice tog. There will be just one boat tomorrow with the Lady Frances setting sail for black fish at 7am.