Roger reported an awesome day of local cod fishing with Capt. Rich on the Gail Frances today. Almost everyone left with at least a couple cod and a good many of the anglers aboard did much better than that. There were several limit catches and a good number of other anglers who had five to nine nice cod apiece to take home. It was all on bait and the vast majority of the cod were in the 10 to 18lb range with a few bigger ones around or just over 20lbs and several in the mid to upper 20’s to duke out bragging rights. Bragging rights today did go to George Wheland who nailed the 27lb pool fish. Longtime regular Norm had a day which was “shades of Columbus Day 2010!!” with an easy limit of nice green cod including two fish in the mid 20’s but just missing out on the bragging rights. ALL of Norm’s other fish were over ten pounds with most of them in the 15 to 18lb range!! Troy also easily limited out today on nice green cod to 20lbs with the vast majority over 10lbs. Another regular customer easily limited out today on big green cod to nearly 20lbs with most of his fish in the 12 to 18lb range and so on. There were also a lot of big porgies to over 2lbs with upwards to a dozen or more per angler and there were some impressive blue fish to the low teens along with a 5lb fluke, a few ocean perch and a few handfuls of big sea bass to nearly 4lbs. No one had more than a couple sea bass apiece. It was predominately big green cod and scup. A few short cod as well. Also it was another day where the unmentionables were hardly worth a mention. It was an anchor day and there was no observation of anyone swinging a jig. It was all on fresh bait. Good catches were recorded all around the boat today. Tomorrow we will have a cod boat ready to set sail at 7am with Capt. Rich aboard the Gail Frances. Lots of pics showcasing angler hi lights today posted courtesy of Roger.
There will be no porgy boat tomorrow. We will only offer a cod boat at 7am on the Gail Frances.
Word from Capt. Mike was of an astounding rebound on the Tuna fishing. A nice mess of Albies to compliment a vastly improved showing of Yellows pleased the anglers aboard. It was the second best trip of the season, not terribly far behind the great trip had three weeks ago. Just about everyone left with at least one tuna and a number of anglers had two or three (mixed albies and yellows) but no one was limited out on the yellows. The albies were all nice school size fish in the 30 to 40lb range while the yellows were the beautiful 60 to 80lb caliber fish we had gotten used to earlier on in the season. One Mahi and one small pup Sword released to grow up and a couple blue sharks rounded out the pelagic variety for this excellent blue water adventure. The albies were all on the troll while the yellows were on the chunk at night and no tuna were recorded on the jig. Next tuna trip is set to sail Thursday morning at 7am aboard the Lady Frances. Some pics will be en route courtesy of Cote.
