Roger reported a very busy first half of the day aboard the Gail Frances with lots of scup of varying sizes but plenty of nice keepers and some in the jumbo size and a very respectable pick of good size sea bass along with a handful of nice market cod. A few big sea flounder, a few ocean perch and one nice fluke as well. There was also a lot of excitement due to the big numbers of alligator size choppers that have invaded the cod/sea bass grounds as well and while they provide a lot of extra sport to ordinary ground fishing, sometimes there can be too much of a good thing. Sizes on those things well into the teens!! The number of big blue fish unfortunately eventually shut the bite off later in the trip with just a few sea bass mixed in, in between. Congrats to longtime regular Scott from Ansonia CT who took the pool with a fine market cod and Scott did box two nice keepers today plus a limit of good size sea bass and some porgies. It did seem like the sea bass preferred a bait on the bottom as motionless as possible which took some strategy as things were a bit frisky out there today. Everyday is different. A handful of anglers limited out on sea bass and most had at least 3 to 5 keepers to take home. A few bomber sea bass in the 4 to 5 lb range with 2 lb fish pretty commonplace. Hi hooks on the scup had upwards to around 15 or so apiece. Some short cod and a few short sea bass and short scup as well today. A few pics today courtesy of Roger. Tomorrow is a new day and Capt. Rich will be setting sail aboard the Gail Frances at 7am.
Capt. Mike reported an okay day of togging. A step down from yesterday but still quite respectable overall. A handful of anglers had 4 or 5 nice tog apiece to take home. Biggest around six pounds. Some keeper sea bass mixed in as well. Quite a few short tog today which make for great practice in between the keepers. Capt. Mike will be ready to set sail at 6 am tomorrow for tog aboard the Lady Frances.
As a side note there was some insane squid fishing off the Galilee docks this morning. Longtime regular customer Norm had 200 squid this morning before he went fishing and the action was so good that Roger joined him for a half hour or so and accumulated 25 pieces himself. Who knew it would be the best squid fishing seen all year!? It has only been the past couple years in October that we remember seeing some squid in the pond.
Roger