Roger reported a good day of fishing and awesome day of weather aboard the Gail Frances. First and foremost the rain held off til the end of the trip, secondly there was no wind at all to speak of. Therefore we drifted in calm seas all day long, in fact if anything the drift was too slow at times!! A nice mixed bag of fat green market cod to ten pounds and a good amount of nice size keeper sea bass. Quite a few sea bass limits. Hi hook honors on the cod goes to Joe Nadhazi from Trumbull CT who caught 5 nice keeper cod today and several throwbacks plus an easy limit of chunky sea bass. Well done Joe!! It was great having Joe and his brothers aboard today and they all enjoyed good catches of market cod and sea bass. These gentlemen have been sailing with us for nearly 30 years!! There were two other anglers with four nice fat cod apiece to take home and two others with three apiece and so on. More cod for less fishers today than yesterday. It was a relatively light crowd likely due to the ominous weather forecast. Some super size ocean perch to nearly 2 lbs, one sea flounder and two nice red hake plus a couple slammer scup and hardly any unmentionables at all rounded out the species assortment today. Double hook set ups seemed to produce better today and a fair amount of cod were taken on really hi hooks. Nothing on jigs today, everything on fresh shucked skimmers. This time of year the cod tend come way up off the bottom to chase their food. When there are not many sharks around the second hi hook is a very good idea. A fair amount of short cod today as well, something we never tire of seeing. There will be no cod/sea bass tomorrow and likely not on Monday either due to gales and then more possible gales associated with next week’s noreaster so stay tuned for the next good fishing day! A few pics courtesy of Roger.
Capt. Mike reported a solid day of togging but a bit more relaxed than some of the prior trips with more “just shorts” today making things a bit tougher. Still there were at least a couple limit catches and a few more who were just behind. Big story today was once again the cod fish and there was quite a showing of them! Sizes into the low teens. Hi hook on the cod took home four nice fish! No tatoug fishing tomorrow due to the gale warnings.Stay tuned for the next good fishing day for tatoug.
Roger