Roger reported a very, very strong night of squid fishing last night with Capt. Ray aboard the Gail Frances. The fishing was much more like Roger remembers it from a few years ago when things seemed to be much more consistent. The squid required some work but once guys got dialed in on them it was non stop for some. We started with a pick of squid mostly on the bottom during daylight but after dark the squid came up to the surface wildly balling a tremendous amount of bait which appeared to be spearing so the folk who adjusted their rigging to lightest possible sinker or no sinker at all with one squid jig tied a foot and a half behind that light sinker and fishing no more than five to ten feet below the surface became very busy at accumulating nice size tubes for their buckets and coolers. According to first mate Troy hi hook had just under 200 squid with most others in the 50-130 piece category per fisher. There were however a few anglers who had as few as a dozen or less squid. Most of the night as stated earlier the squid were up on top terrorizing vast schools of what appeared to be spearing and while I wouldn’t go so far as to say there were opaque “sheets” but there were hundreds if not thousands of squid all around the surface of the boat from 9pm to 1230 am! It was a warm humid quiet night, a one stop drift or crawl rather where the boat probably moved 1000 ft during the first five hours of fishing! Every night is different but overall the squid fishing was great and what is written here is what produced last night. It is KEY to pay attention to who is catching on these trips and adjusting one’s method accordingly. A few anglers tried to catch a few fluke as well with one angler getting two nice keepers to 3.5 lbs and a dozen or so shorts and one other angler buck tailing a few shorties. Other than the fluke a few big “Block Island” style skate and a handful of catch and release sea bass but no scup unfortunately for the fin fish fishers. Tonight’s squid trip is a go and there is plenty of room so please call the office to make a reservation. A couple pics provided courtesy of Roger taken earlier on in the evening/night.
Plenty of room on today’s 1pm half day and tomorrow we offer two half days from 8am to Noon and 1pm to 5pm. Remember back to back half days can net an angler a $15 discount on the second trip!
Roger