Roger reported a very good morning of half day fishing today with sea bass of various sizes bending rods one drift after another. More than enough keepers mixed in so that most anglers left with at least dinner. Nothing huge with the best of the lot perhaps just under 3 lbs. Some nice fluke and short fluke mixed in today as well with one really nice fish taken by Mike from Thompson CT with a 28 inch 8 lb slab caught on a rental rod rig. Lots of short sea bass keeping anglers busy with one angler catching and releasing more than 30 sea bass!! Needless to say a decent number of sea bass limits around the boat. A few nice size scup and one slammer blue fish thrown in for good measure. A couple pics courtesy of Roger.
Capt. Matt just came in and reported that the pm half day was very good with a nice mix of good size fluke up to 6 lbs along with a nice mess of big sea bass including a true 5.4 lb 26 inch monster weighed on the calibrated official certified scale inside here at Capt. Tackle. That weight is after the fish was bled out and sat on ice for a couple hours so the “out of the water” weight was likely much closer to 6 lbs!! This behemoth sea bass was taken by deck hand Troy fishing on an afternoon off and Troy was hi hook with a limit of sea bass and five good size fluke. Troy’s did his damage today with a single pink spro buck tail casting up tide and working the jig back to the boat however other anglers also did well with just the plain jane rental rod squid/spearing combos. A beautiful photo of Troy’s sea bass was provided courtesy of deck hand Nick P. Tomorrow we offer two half days with the first setting sail at 8 am aboard the Lady Frances and the second at 1pm aboard the Admiral Frances.
Once again Capt. Mike was pleased to report another outstanding day of Whale Watching in the waters south east of Block Island. They saw at least two dozen Fin Back Whales and quite a few Dolphin. Next Whale Watch departs tomorrow afternoon at 1pm. Right now there is ample room so if interested please call the office to make a reservation.
Last night’s Striper fishing was improved over the past two outings with a handful of keepers and a handful of shorts but nothing big. A few blue fish mixed in as well. Still plenty of openings on tonight’s trip so if interested give us a call to make a reservation.
Cory and Chris L reported the full day boat saw slower fishing today due to lack of drift much of the day. A few anglers who worked the buck tails really hard did extremely well but their scores were not representative of the majority. Some days are just like that in party boat fishing. There were two limit catches and another angler who had boxed seven nice keepers. There were very few short fluke today with most of the fish emphasizing quality in the 3 to 4 lb range with a few bigger ones including the 9.8 lb 28 inch slab that was not in the pool and the six pounder that took something to the bank today. Just a couple handfuls of sea bass, a handful of scup and one blue fish rounded out the day’s species assortment. Weather looks awesome for tomorrow and Capt. Rich will be ready to set sail aboard the Gail Frances at 7 am.
Roger