Roger reported a beautiful day on the water today aboard the Gail Frances. A spirited northerly breeze relaxed just in time for some late “lunchtime” drifting and they left the grounds in a calm sea. Fishing had an okay start and a strong finish today. The last hour of the trip made the day with a nice pick of mostly jumbo sea bass, a few big scup and some market size cod and a bunch of throwbacks. The first half of the day had smaller scup and sea bass and a handful of market cod and some throwback cod. The unmentionables were worthy of a mention today but were completely in the “fish through them” category. Some good size ocean perch and one blue fish, and a throwback fluke rounded out the days catch. A special shout out to longtime regular Mike Kwok from Palisades Park NJ who easily limited out on big sea bass to 4 lbs, a bunch of big scup and also boxed several nice cod to ten pounds, well done Mike! There was another longtime regular customer who fished mid ship today who also had an easy limit of sea bass to at least four pounds along with three beautiful cod fish to nearly ten pounds and a few jumbo scup. Deckhand Chris K managed a pair of beautiful green cod in between assisting fishers with one going a solid ten pounds. One of them he jigged up on the drift later in the day otherwise all the cod were taken on bait. The rest of the fishers aboard generally had close to or within a fish or two of the sea bass limit and again late in the day there were quite a few in the 2-3 lb range with some real brutes up to nearly 5 lbs. Most fishers also had some good size scup and the majority but not all took home a cod fish and in a few other cases, two. A few pictures today courtesy of Roger. Wednesday’s trip could be in jeopardy due to the weather forecast but we will monitor future updates so make sure to call back tomorrow afternoon to find out if the trip will be a go or not.
Capt. Matt had an awesome day of tog fishing today aboard the Lady Frances. They were only a few fish shy of a full boat limit. Sizes were also impressive with the ten pound barrier easily broken as predicted yesterday with a chinner that went close to 11 pounds. A few other hefty tog in the 8-9 lb range and plenty of beautiful 5-6 lb fish spread out around the Lady Frances. Quite a few shorts as well to keep anglers busy in between the keepers. Some keeper sea bass mixed in as well with hi hooks adding as many as a half dozen of those to their tog catches. One fine cod fish just under ten pounds and a few short cod rounded out the catching for the day aboard the Lady Frances. Tog fishing overall is off to an awesome start! More great weather on tap for tomorrow and the Lady Frances will be set to sail at 6 am with Capt. Mike at the helm. Photo of today’s pool fish courtesy first mate Zach E.
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