First mate Troy reported last night’s bass fishing was okay. Not as wild as the night before but some nice bass to 20 lbs were taken. Still plenty of room on tonight’s trip and tomorrow night’s so call the office if interested in booking a reservation. A couple pictures from last night’s trip provided courtesy deckhand Nick P.
It sounds as though the boys on the Tuna boat may have had a very good outing, details are still somewhat thin but all indications so far are positive. Stay tuned for details throughout the day as they become available! Next tuna trip is set for this coming Monday Night leaving at 10 pm and returning sometime Thursday afternoon. Still plenty of space left on that outing so if interested call the office to make a reservation.
The above thinking that Tuna fishing was good this past trip turned out to be an understatement! The fishing rivaled that of any trip in more than a decade!! Capt. Mike reported they CRUSHED the Yellow fin Tuna at night on the chunk and on jigs and trolled up a bunch of Albacore during the day. There were many anglers who easily attained limit catches on Yellows and these fish were of appreciable size with the vast majority falling into the 75 to 90 lb range!! There were a handful of smaller ones as well but most were rather impressive. The Albacore were also of good size in the 40 to 60 lb range. Just one Mahi on the troll. There is still PLENTY of room left on the trip setting sail Monday Night at 10 pm and returning sometime Thursday afternoon. Call the office to make a reservation if interested. Tuna pics provided courtesy first mates Chris K and Capt. Matt. The sounder pic from Capt.Matt and pile pic from Chris k are both destined for the Frances Fleet Tuna Scrap Book!!
We just received word and accompanying picture of a double digit fish caught aboard the Gail Frances. Doug Sherman from CT with a fine 10.7 lb slab. Picture provided courtesy first mate Cory Blount. Doug’s big fish was caught using a bait rig and just a single strip of boat squid!! It was definitely mixed bag fishing today on a super fast drift. A respectable take of fluke that included about a half dozen other jumbos over 4 lbs with hi hook for the day boxing 7 keepers using whole squid until he ran out and then employing a bait rig and just fluke belly bait with no spearing! Quite a few sea bass today including a dozen or so big ones over 3 lbs with the best according to Cory hitting the 5 lb mark. A couple dozen platter size scup to over 18 inches and nearly 3 lbs plus a half dozen nice size blue fish topped off the species assortment. One angler who switched back and forth from clams to fluke tackle easily had his limit of good size sea bass plus a nice mess of big scup, three good size fluke and a blue fish! Well done Gerald! Gerald is a longtime regular customer and exceptional rod handler from the mid Hudson Valley area in NY state. Tomorrow is forecast to be another gorgeous day weather wise and Capt. Rich will be ready to set sail aboard the Gail Frances at 7 am.
Capt. George reported a respectable morning half day with a couple fluke and some nice sea bass. The afternoon trip was reported to be somewhat slower. Remember just one half day tomorrow morning leaving at 8 am aboard the Lady Frances.
Roger