Roger reported a great day of fishing overall for the light load of anglers aboard the Lady Frances. It was like a mixed bag multispecies special close to home!! The tog fishing itself was quite good with a nice pick on most drops with at least a half dozen angler limits easily achieved today and several others who were not far behind with several nice tog apiece. Biggest fish was easily 9 lbs but not entered in the pool. Peter Tu took the pool with the next biggest tog of around 8 lbs. Peter also had a nice keeper fluke on a crab bait as well today. A few other hefty tog in the 6-7 lb range with the rest nice size keepers. Some short tog today but definitely more keepers. Just a couple of tog on soft baits, there was no doubt they wanted the green crabs. A lot of nice keeper sea bass today with a couple threatening borderline jumbo status (2 lbs) but many of the keepers did not need to be measured and a number of anglers aboard easily limited out. The sea bass definitely preferred the softer baits however at least a few anglers easily limited out on sea bass using crab baits. Quite a few throwback sea bass as well keeping some anglers exceptionally busy! A surprising number of nice size keeper scup on one set as well with a few anglers having several nice scup apiece to add to their boxes with one guy catching 11 nice keeper scup. A handful of nice size for filleting ocean perch as well today. The North Atlantic Cod fish also made its presence known on three of the sets today with three nice keepers and two shorts recorded. So far there has been a cod or two or three kept and a few shorts on almost every tog trip and the season is still early! It was certainly a bit frisky today but it was generally a very enjoyable fishing day on the anchor and not nearly as windy as expected and forecast by the local weather persons. Tomorrow sounds like another enjoyable fall fishing day and the Lady Frances will set sail at 6 am for tog. A bunch of pictures today showcasing some of the significant angler hi lights provided courtesy of Roger.
The cod/mixed bag fishing trip will also be setting sail tomorrow morning at 7 am aboard the Gail Frances with Capt. Rich at the helm. Looks like a nice fishing day out on the cod grounds. Saturday showed us a wide variety and array of bottom dwellers and the best showing of cod in more than a month and we are hopeful for more of the same tomorrow!
Roger