Roger reported an action packed day of fishing aboard the Gail Frances. The first stop produced a respectable shot of cod fish and a few scup and sea bass. The next stop produced better numbers of bigger scup and sea bass but just a few nice size cod while the last area sampled produced a handful of cod fish and the best scup fishing we have seen since back in October!! Some nice sea bass as well but the scup were practically chewing the bottom of the boat! Double header platter size scup, drop and stick fishing if you will for at least a couple of hours. Most fishers either had a limit of nice size sea bass or were very close to it and most fishers had all the big scup they wanted with those who focused on them a bit easily limiting out! Hi hook on the cod took home four keepers with a few other fishers having two or three each to take home. Several cod in the low to mid teens battled it out for pool honors today aboard the Gail Frances. We also had some small to mid size blue fish, a mess of good size ocean perch, a nice size monk fish and a mentionable amount of the unmentionables in one area sampled. Biggest scup were in the range of 3 lbs and there were some sea bass in the 3 to 4 lb range but few if any bigger than that today. One hook just near or above/below the sinker was the way to go for just about everything today except the unmentionables. One beautiful green as could be cod was jigged up on the anchor otherwise all on bait. Pictures today courtesy of Roger. Another nice fishing day on tap for tomorrow and Capt. Rich will set sail aboard the Gail Frances at 6 am for cod and sea bass.
Capt. Mike reported a good day of togging. Much better than expected after all that southerly wind of the past two days. There were some limit catches and some other fishers who were not far behind. Longtime regular Brian Cofske from Worcester MA did it again today easily limiting out on nice tog to 7 lbs for example. There was also a tremendous amount of short tog today keeping anglers very busy at the rails. Biggest tog was reported to be about 8 lbs and a half dozen nice size cod joined the tog today aboard the Lady with the biggest cod in the low teens! Nice to see these good size cod continuing to show here and there on the tog grounds. More great fishing weather tomorrow and the Lady Frances will be set to sail at 6am with Capt. Mike at the helm.
Roger
