Roger reported a bluebird late fall day of weather and good fishing to go along with it aboard the Gail Frances. Complete opposite of last weekend with weak to nearly no tide at all and at times nearly no drift at times!! What a difference a week makes! A great showing of cod fish again today with David from Indian Orchard taking the pool with a fine green fish of 25 lbs. Longtime regular Norm from Cumberland RI was tied for hi hook with five nice cod apiece with another gentleman in the stern. There was another fella who had four keepers and a bunch who had three keepers apiece and so on. The majority of anglers aboard left with a cod or two today but there were a handful who did not. Sometimes that is just the way things shake out on the head boats. Mostly a bait bite today but a couple of gentlemen did get some cod to eat the metal with Orlando from Norwalk CT jigging up three nice cod into the low teens today plus an easy limit of nice sea bass. Mostly all nice green fish today, many of which were covered in lice indicating they are just moving on to the grounds. Sea Bass fishing in general was excellent with many of the anglers aboard easily limiting out on these tasty northern relatives of the southern grouper. Not many monsters today though with most of the sea bass nice size keepers and just a few jumbos upwards to 3 lbs. A bunch of good size ocean perch, some big sea flounders to 3.5 lbs, a handful of big scup including one behemoth specimen of nearly 4 lbs!!, one nice keeper pollock and just a smattering of the unmentionables rounded out the species assortment today. Some pictures today provided courtesy of Roger. Next cod/sea bass trip is planned for tomorrow morning at 6 am aboard the Gail Frances with Capt. Rich at the helm.
Capt. Mike jubilantly reported that today saw a tremendous rebound in the local tog fishing. A full boat limit of nice tog to 7 lbs aboard the Lady Frances today with loads of quality tog in the 4 to 5 lb range. What a difference a day makes!! Another pleasant surprise today was the great showing of cod fish today with 15 nice size cod to ten pounds coming aboard the Lady Frances and the majority of the anglers aboard had a cod or two to take home in addition to the tog! Capt. Mike was hi hook on the cod with three nice keepers today. In fact it was a cod of at least ten pounds which took the pool today aboard the Lady Frances. Capt. Mike will be ready to set sail tomorrow morning at 6 am aboard the Lady Frances.
Roger