Roger reported a very tough day on the cod/mixed bag fishing trip today. The water was still very dirty from Wednesday’s southerly gale to storm force winds and the fishing suffered accordingly. Too bad because the weather was beautiful and the ocean nearly flat calm with drifting and anchoring both used today. We fished a number of different areas finding a little but very little life in each. There was a decent number of big true conger eels taken today with a few of them going nearly five feet in length! A handful of sea bass with a few of them jumbos in the 2 to 3 lb range and some short sea bass, one keeper cod, one short cod, a couple small ling, one big flounder and some but not that many unmentionables. Tomorrow we try again with Capt. Rich ready to set sail on the Gail Frances at 6am.
Capt. Mike also reported suffering the same fate with the dirty water. A handful of tatoug to 6 lbs did make it aboard but that was about it. Tomorrow we try again with Capt. Mike ready to set sail on the Lady Frances at 6am.
