Roger reported a good day of bottom fishing aboard the Gail Frances today and a beautiful “bluebird” or “popcorn” day to do it with nice drift conditions over flat calm seas. Those aforementioned words are simply old school nautical slang for almost perfect weather. We had a good amount of cod fish and while not everyone had keepers they were fairly spread out and many of fishers aboard had 2 to 4 keepers apiece with a couple of fishers having 5 keepers each. One such fisher was regular customer Vic from Niantic (Lou P’s buddy) who again put on a cod clinic this afternoon quickly accumulating five nice keepers and also catching some other cod that were just under the legal size! Well done Vic! Vic is no stranger to putting the heat on in the very late innings and this seems to be becoming a regular activity! Most fishers easily limited on sea bass and there were some real brutes aboard with a handful in the 4 to 5 lb range. Those who did not limit were mostly short only a fish or two with very few exceptions. Again there were lots of porgies of all sizes with many jumbos up to and over 2lbs. Some fishers easily managed one to two dozen big scup apiece today. Later in the trip, almost like magic the porgies seemed to vaporize. A good amount of short cod and quite a few big ocean perch today along with one short fluke. A few handfuls of the unmentionables but it appeared as though they were generally busy working on their own pre Thanksgiving day activities on some other rock piles. Not to be haters but we really didn’t miss them. Biggest cod fish today were in the mid teens. A respectable amount of the cod taken today, including some of the largest ones fell victim to the iron clam. Bait also worked just fine though. We would like to wish all our loyal cod/sea bass fishers a most enjoyable Thanksgiving Holiday tomorrow and the weather looks just fine to be back out on the water in search of cod and sea bass on Friday. Capt. Rich will set sail aboard the Gail Frances at 6am. Pictures today courtesy of Roger.
Capt. Mike reported another outstanding tog trip today aboard the Lady. Close to a full boat limit and lots of really big fish. The biggest tog of just over 12 lbs was not in the pool but the pool was battled out by two fish in the 11 lb range and there were others in the 9-10 lb range!! Quite a few really quality tog in the 6-8 lb range today as well. Tremendous amounts of short tog kept things from never getting dull once again. A handful of keeper sea bass and a few keeper cod fish rounded an awesome catch of pre Thanksgiving tatoug. We would like to wish all our loyal tog fishers a most enjoyable Thanksgiving Holiday tomorrow and the weather looks just fine to be back out on the water for tog on Friday. Capt. Mike will set sail aboard the Lady Frances at 6am.
Roger