Capt. Rich reported a MUCH IMPROVED day on the water today with a lot more keeper fluke for a lighter crowd. A decent amount of the anglers aboard had several nice fluke apiece to take home such as Doug Herman for example from Colebrook CT who had six fine keepers to 5 lbs. Way to go Doug! Hi hook today was reported to have boxed seven nice keepers. Hats off to Lance Mount from Fieldsboro NJ who took the pool today with a fine slab of 8.5 lbs weighed on the Capt. Tackle certified calibrated contest scale. There were a half dozen other nice jumbo fish today including a few others in the 6 to 7 lb range. Capt. Ted emphasized QUALITY fish today aboard the Gail Frances. Catch and release sea bass and short fluke kept rod bending on an almost epic level today but at least a couple nice blue fish and big scup made it aboard and got to stay. Photo courtesy Roger. Capt. Rich will set sail tomorrow morning at 7 am for full day fluke aboard the Gail Frances.
Roger reported EXCELLENT fishing on this morning’s half day. Best trip of the young season so far with great drifting conditions and rods bent up and down the Lady Frances all morning long. A very respectable pull of keepers up to 4 lbs, plenty of shorts(up to 20 per angler!), some sea robins (including a few real trophies!), and a bunch of catch and release sea bass kept anglers entertained. Hi hook took home four nice keepers this morning. Buck tails and bait rigs all worked well with the rental rod plain jane set ups working very very well. Photo courtesy of Roger.
While this morning’s fluke trip was excellent, this afternoon’s put that trip to shame!! Capt. Matt reported the light crowd of anglers aboard had an OUTSTANDING afternoon of half day fishing! Everyone had or just about everyone had keepers to take home with a good number of the anglers having three or four keepers apiece and Troy was hi hook with six keepers!! Combined with his couple for this morning, Troy achieved a full limit today fishing the beach, well done Troy! Plenty of shorts, lots of catch and release bomber sea bass, and some sea robins kept things at a frantic pace. Even some squid following up the fluke baits! We couldn’t be happier here at the Frances Fleet and hope today’s great fishing is a sign of things to come! Nice job today Capt. Matt! Tomorrow features two half days with the first setting sail at 8am and the second at 1pm, both on the Lady Frances. Back to back half days can net an angler a $15 discount off the second outing.
Roger