What a difference a day makes. Its 12:45 and the blackfish boat is on its way back in with a full boat limit of tautog. Roger will update after 4:00 today with a few more details. And also a cod/seabass report as he is out on that boat today himself. Just give him a little time to get in and get settled in the office and he will give you a blow by blow description of today’s fishing.
Roger reported an awesome day of mixed bag fishing with Capt. Rich aboard the Gail Frances! Just a handful of anglers came out today to brave the slightly chilly morning temperatures and brilliant mid November sunshine, but most important we got out and now have a fresh report! We only fished two areas today finding excellent results at both. Scott Romano from Middletown Ct had an awesome day boxing four nice green cod, a nice Pollock, an easy limit of big sea bass and a half dozen big porgies. Scott took the pool with a fish that was just a shade under 20 lbs and also had another nice fish in the low teens. There was NEVER a time while fishing today without a bite unless one did not have their hooks baited. Another angler on board boxed four nice cod fish into the low teens, an easy limit of big sea bass to over 4lbs, a half dozen big porgies and tossed back at least thirty more good size sea bass (all the while using one 8/0 hook) while longtime regular John Wills boxed three fine cod into the low teens, an easy limit of big sea bass, and a mess of platter size scup and so on. John also was busy catch and release fishing on the sea bass tossing back at least 20 good size specimens after reaching his limit. Hi hooks on the scup who used smaller hooks managed upwards to a couple dozen nice porgies apiece. Needless to say there was just about a full boat limit of sea bass with all the catch and release fishing going on. Biggest sea bass over 4lbs, biggest scup around 2 lbs (not quite as many monster scup as on Sunday’s run). Some big ocean perch and a couple nice keeper Pollock to 7 lbs plus one or two ambitious blue fish rounded out the day’s catch. Several nice green cod were taken on the iron clam today but bait was generally the way to go. The weather was gorgeous with enough wind to provide an optimum swing on the anchor. Weather looks great for Friday and good for Saturday and those will be the next cod/mixed bag fishing trips with Capt. Rich ready to set sail on the Gail Frances at 6am. Some pics today posted courtesy of Roger and the pics focus more on fillet table and basket shots as Roger was busy helping out at the table on the ride back to port.
Capt. Nicky Blount filled me in on some additional details regarding todays BLACK FISH CRUSH aboard the Lady Frances with Capt. Matt at the helm. As mentioned in the earlier post the boat was back by 1pm with a FULL BOAT LIMIT!!. Mostly good size tog with very few short togs today. Biggest around nine pounds with others in the 7 to 8 lb range and a fair amount of others over 5lbs. A pleasant surprise in the form of several nice cod today as well with the best around 8 lbs and also of interest a couple of these cod fish including the biggest were taken at a very shallow rock pile close to home with a nice pick of keeper size tog as well up in the skinny water!! Looks like more great weather for togging tomorrow through Saturday and the Lady Frances will be set to sail at 6am with Capt. Mike at the helm.
