Capt. Mike reported the Tuna season got off to a start, not a great one, certainly not the worst either. The anglers aboard chipped away at some nice size Yellows mostly in the 70lb class along with a few Albies, a small bunch of Mahi, and a 60lb Sword. Two Marlin were released boat side as well. Again it was not a great start but some nice fish were put aboard the Lady Frances. Still some openings on Monday Night’s Tuna trip set to sail at 10pm so if interested call the office.
We would like to take an opportunity here to address the coolers being brought aboard full day and overnight trips as of late. We kindly ask customers to limit the amount of coolers as much as possible. Perhaps putting food in smaller coolers and storing those coolers inside while the large coolers are stored safely on the top deck.The deckhands and customers need to be able to freely walk around the boat. We also have incurred a rather high amount of lost/forgotten tackle boxes, bags and the like as well over the past few months. Again we kindly ask fishermen to please check carefully and make sure they have ALL of their items before the leave the parking lot as the Frances Fleet assumes no responsibility for lost, stolen or forgotten merchandise.
Capt. Rich and first mate Capt. Ted reported that the fishing was good to excellent today for sea bass with a nice shot of fluke in the mix. A number of anglers easily limited out on the sea bass and a few did well with the fluke as well with one angler icing 7 nice summer flatties for the cooler. Biggest fluke was six pounds and a few of the sea bass were in the 3 to 4lb range with most really nice keepers in the 14 to 15 inch range. A couple scup, no blue fish today. Just about anyone who stayed all day at the rail had a nice bag of sea bass fillets to take home. Anyway the conditions today were slightly sporty so a few more fish than usual were dropped but all in all another very strong day. Tomorrow is another day with great weather forecast and Capt. Rich will be ready to set sail on the Gail Frances at 7am.
Capt. Frank was once again at the helm of this morning’s half day and reported another one stop day where he set the hook and the porgies and a few sea bass just kept coming over the rails. Tomorrow we will have one half day trip leaving at 8am. We also kick off our porgy fishing tomorrow full day style at 7am on the Admiral Frances with Capt. Ray.
