The night fishing trip last night was slow. A mix of critters that included a few nice sea bass, a fluke or two, a scup, a couple short stripers, and a couple blue fish but the overall them was tough fishing. Unfortunately the unmentionables made themselves mentionable. We try again this week Wednesday through Saturday Nights at 7pm by reservation.
The report from the morning half day was of a boat limit of nice size sea bass and a fair amount of good size fluke to about 5 lbs. Capt. Matt reported the fluke turned on in a BIG WAY this afternoon on the pm half day! A bunch of anglers had three to five nice fluke apiece and the fluke were all QUALITY fish in the 3 to 5 lb range with quite a few in the 5.5 to 6 lb range competing for pool honors.Double headers here too with one for example going to longtime regular Anthony Mecurio who buck tailed a fine double header that included fish of 24 and 21 inches!! Way to go Anthony! A decent amount of good size sea bass as well. All terminal gear was also reported to be effective. Two half days tomorrow with the first to set sail aboard the Lady Frances at 8am and the second aboard the Lady as well at 1pm. Don’t forget back to back half days can net angler a $15 discount off the second trip. Photo of longtime regular customer Brian McDonalds fine brace of jumbo fluke courtesy longtime customer Anthony Mecurio.
Today’s fishing aboard the Gail Frances was about as good as it gets or just “stupid!” according to Capt. Rich and crew! Longtime regular customers Ginny and her grandson Cole caught 21 keepers (orl) and both said it was “the best fluke trip they had ever been on!” Not only was there a tremendous amount of keeper fluke including quite a few jumbos over 4 lbs and plenty of shorties as well. Two fish in the 8 lb range battled it out for bragging rights today. The trip was like this from start to finish and the action was just instantaneous!! Longtime regulars Dan Melino and Sandy and Cyrus Thompkins all echoed the same sentiment as Ginny that this was the “best fluke fishing” they had experienced and Sandy preferred to refer to the fishing today as “ridiculous”. The fishing was just that good! Too many double headers to count! Well the sand eels and squid have been building since May on the grounds so a phenomenon such as this is not entirely unexpected and hopefully things will keep the pace for a good long while. Keep in mind also that all the anomalous Sperm Whale sightings and small tuna etc are indicative of a very robust food chain and when the stars align like they did Wednesday, yesterday afternoon and today the magic happens. Easy limits were generally reached all around the boat! Some sea bass in the mix along with some big scup and a few good size blue fish. Even a couple of first time rental rod customers boxed a half dozen nice keepers or more apiece! All terminal gear from buck tail rigs to bait rigs to whole squid and smelt big baits all produced exceptionally well today. The amount of bait on the grounds is just staggering! Pictures today provided courtesy longtime regular Ginny Reed. Capt.Rich will be at the helm tomorrow morning at 7 am setting sail aboard the Gail Frances.
Roger