Capt. Matt reported an excellent morning half day trip for sea bass with a great haul of keepers and lots of shorts to keep things quite busy, especially at the last stop where it was just about an all out bail job. Nothing huge but lots of quality sea bass. Just a few scup and a few short fluke mixed in as well. Experienced party boat fishers Leroy and Ginna Sneathen were out with us today, all the way from Cape May NJ and they reported having a great time catching lots and lots of sea bass and easily limiting out! Leroy took the pool fish today ( a fine jumbo sea bass of just under 3 lbs) using a gulp bait. A decent number of other fishers were limited out as well and the boys on deck were busy filleting all the way back to the dock and then some. First mate Cory reported the afternoon half day was an all out SEA BASS CRUSH!! Nearly a full boat limit for a very enthusiastic crowd of fishers! A few jumbos but most were just nice fat perfect eating size keepers. At times nearly every rod was bent over all the way around the boat! Several hundred throwbacks as well keeping all hands on deck very busy. Some porgies and a couple short fluke rounded out the catching for the trip. Best of all this great fishing was only 20 minutes from the dock!! Tomorrow will mark the last day of the half day fishing season for the Frances Fleet and trips will depart at 8 am and again at 1pm aboard the Lady Frances with Capt. Matt at the helm once again.
Tomorrow night’s Tuna trip is a go and the weather looks great!! The trip is still on the light side so plenty of room for those who want to call and make a reservation or even come on down! Pictured above today’s report is Frank Gallerani from Charlton Mass with one of several big yellows he caught on the long range trip which came back on Friday. This was generally the average size yellow taken on the wildly successful outing.
Capt. George reported the full day charter for the Ernest Pinon group found a nice mix of scup and sea bass. For further booking details on private charters please call the office and speak to Tammy Roger or Cory, or check out the “private charters” section of the web site.
First mate Chris L reported a respectable day of fishing aboard the Gail Frances today. A good haul of keeper sea bass and some big porgies to over 2 lbs along with a fair showing of good size fluke. Hi hook on fluke took home four keepers and the exceptional rod handler was none other than longtime regular Connie Tu from West Warwick RI. Connie also had three of the biggest fluke of the day with the 9 lb pool fish and a pair of 6 lbrs!! Way to go Connie! Connie caught the big 29 inch slab on a bait rig and strip bait (nothing fancy). Connie also had a limit of nice sea bass and there were a fair number of sea bass limits recorded around the boat. Drift conditions were rather speedy today as well. A picture of Connie and her pool winner provided today courtesy Peter Tu. Tomorrow is a new day and Capt. Rich will be ready to set sail aboard the Gail Frances at 7 am.
Tomorrow is the first day of Porgy fishing. We will be setting sail aboard the Admiral Frances at 7 am and return around 3 pm. Thereafter we will sail porgy fishing Wednesday, Friday and weekends at 7am weather permitting.
Roger