Capt. Ray reported AWESOME scup fishing today around Block Island! First mate Troy reported the biggest kind of porgies with many fish between 2 and 3 lbs and lots of double headers. The scup were stacked up to 30 feet thick! A picture from the fish finder gives just a rough idea of how many scup are around the Block Island grounds right now. Picture courtesy General Manager Cory.
Roger reported slower cod fishing today. The bite seemed to get better in the afternoon. Still a respectable amount of keeper cod fish with the best of the lot just under the ten pound mark. Hi hook boxed four keepers today and a fair number of fishers aboard had two or three keepers apiece. Plenty of scup to at least 2 lbs with some anglers catching upwards to a couple dozen apiece. A handful of good size ocean perch, a few big red hake, a few big sea flounders rounded out the days catch. A couple of brief forays into some deep water produced an epic attendance of the biggest kind of unmentionables so we quickly went back into the shallows where there was no attendance of those things. Tomorrow may very well be the last nice fishing day for the week so we will be ready to go with Capt. Rich at the helm at 7 am aboard the Gail Frances. A few photos today courtesy of Roger.
Roger