Roger reported excellent fishing today aboard the Gail Frances for the light crowd of fishers who braved some wet but generally calm weather to join Capt. Rich in search of local cod and sea bass and to put it mildly the search was successful! Shots of cod fish all day and a big shot of sea bass in the afternoon filled up bags and coolers around the boat. EVERYONE aboard went home with cod fish today and most fishers easily limited out on sea bass of good size or were very close. Hi hook for the day and for the fall season thus far was Rodney from Smithtown RI who boxed 8 nice cod to ten pounds and an easy limit of sea bass, well done Rodney! Longtime regular customer Marcellino Chua from Lunnenburg MA was next highest hook with 7 beautiful cod to 15 lbs and an easy limit of sea bass. Well done Marcellino! Marcellino had the biggest cod on the boat today. The pool fish however was taken by longtime regular Norman who’s 13 lb cod was part of a double header that included a 4 lb sea bass as well! We had a handful of cod fish today over ten pounds and some others that were “gaffable” in the 6-8 lb range. Quite a few short cod too, many of which were just short by a tad. We had several other fishers today who had 5-6 cod apiece to take home with their sea bass and then other folk who had one to four apiece. The so called “average” was threatening 5 cod per fisher. Both bait and jigs worked for the cod but bait was the best and the “scotch line” style atlantic cod rigs out produced the dropper loop rigs today but all were effective. Sizes on the sea bass were generally good but there were only a few bombers that were well over 3 lbs and threatening or over the 4 lb mark. Some huge ocean perch with a few very close to the size of a legal tatoug! One very large sea flounder, only a couple of good size scup (the total opposite of yesterday!!) and the unmentionables were just about worth a mention but being that we were able to drift just about all day they were largely avoidable. Pictures today courtesy of Roger. Tomorrow is our next scheduled cod/sea bass outing and Capt. Rich will be ready to set sail at 6am aboard the Gail Frances.
Capt. Mike reported another solid day of togging. Pool fish was around 7 lbs but there were a decent amount of angler limits and many others who weren’t all that far behind. Lots and lots of short tog to keep anglers busy, and we have seen this over and over again this season so it seems as though some of the younger year classes are very strong. A few keeper sea bass and a couple of keeper cod mixed in as well today. More togging on tap for tomorrow with the Lady Frances set to sail at 6 am with Capt. Mike at the helm.
Roger
