Roger was elated to report some truly excellent fall fishing today on the Lady Frances! The boat easily had its entire limit of jumbo sea bass within the first three hours at the first location with fish up to 5 lbs and most in the two to three pound range. Double headers were common place if one fished with two hooks, the bite was just insane and reminiscent of fishing seen by this angler not since the turn of the century! A few anglers caught as many as 30 to 40 big sea bass( only retaining their respective limits of course!) A bunch of big blue fish into the teens, a mess of big scup to over 2lbs, and a few ocean perch rounded out the species assortment at the first area fished. So obviously we had to go looking after that and we took a ride back towards home and were pleasantly surprised in the last hour of fishing to put a few nice cod in the boat both dark and green fish with the best a fine fat green fish in the low teens. The last spot also had a couple of baseball bat size red hake, a few big porgies and a few good size catch and release sea bass along with some big ocean perch. This was the best showing of cod in over a week and a fair amount of other cod were missed or dropped by anglers at the last anchor set. Some pics today provided courtesy of Roger. All fishing was done with bait. Next sea bass and cod combo is set for this coming Wednesday and by the way the weather looks fantastic, at 7am with Capt. Rich.
Capt. Mike reported a good day on the Admiral Frances for tatoug. Pool fish was around 9 lbs with at least a few angler limits and hi hook boating 9 good tog (orl). Many of the anglers aboard boxed several nice black fish apiece and there were plenty of shorts through the day to keep things moving right along. A few just keeper sea bass mixed in as well. Weather looks great for tomorrow and Capt. Mike will be set to sail on the Lady Frances at 6am for tatoug.
