CHARTER TODAY, SLOPPY SEAS, BITE STRONG ON POLLACK, HOT DOG SIZE COD, FEW HADDOCK MIXED IN. LAST DROP PRODUCED TWENTY TWO KEEPER COD ON THE SHOAL WATER. BIG TIDES COMING, FISH MAY BE MOVING TO SHOAL WATER TO FEED ON BROKEN CLAMS, ETC. GAME PLAN THIS WEEK SHOAL WATER FISHING, JIGS AND TEASERS. BEST, CAPT. JIM
Monthly Archive for April, 2010
MUSSELLS A JOKE, 95 BOATS VERY LITTLE BITE. MOST GUYS HUNG AROUND FOR THE MIRACLE BITE. STEAMED TWELVE MILES TO EAST RDGE, BITE SLOW AND STEADY. AT LEAST ONE HUNDRED DROPS, TWO HERE, FOUR HERE, EVERYONE ON. FINNAL COUNT ,SEVENTYFIVE COD, 48 POLLOCK, TWELVE HADDOCK. MY FEELING IS THE PRESSURE ON THE MUSSELLS IS TO MUCH FOR THE FISH. SOUTHEAST HAS SAND EELS, GANNETS, WHALES ETC.. EXPLORE TOMORROW, BACK SIDE CAPE, TIME RIGHT FOR COW COD. BEST, CAPT. JIM
THE BOYS FROM CHAMBERSBURGH,PA. PUT A REAL HURTING FOR TWO DAYS ON COD, POLLOCK AND HADDOCK. FISHING THE MUSSELLS, SOUTH SHOALS, MID EDGE AND THE POLLOCK HOLE. TOTAL NUMBERS FOR TWO DAYS OF FISHING COMBINED WERE ONE HUNDRED SIXTY COD, FOURTY TWO HADDOCK ANDTHREE HUNDRED AND TEN POLLOCK UP TO TWENTY FIVE POUNDS. ALL ACTION WAS WITH JIGS AND TEASERS. BOYS ALREADY BOOKED SAME TIME NEXT YEAR. BEST, CAPT. JIM
TRIP UP NORTH TO THE MUSSELL BANK PRODUCED MARKET COD TO 21 POUNDS TWO HOURS LATER, 80 IN THE BOX CRUISED TO NORTH SHOALS. NON STOP JIGING ON COD, ALL WENT BACK. DROVE EAST TO THE HADDOCK HOLE. MORE BIG POLLOCK THAN HADDOCK, LANDED 29 HADDOCK. LOTS OF BOATS, CRAZY FISHING, GET OFF BY \YOURSELF, BETTER OFF. I HAVE BEEN CHARTERING FOR34 YEARS , BEST EVER, NO NEED TO JM ANYBODY.
COMM. BOATS CLOSED, VERY GOOD WINTER ON LANDINGS, PRICES NOT GOOD. REPORTS FROM A FEW FRIENDS FISHING STELLWAGEN REPORT GOOD NUMBERS OF HADDOCK, CODFISH IN BIG NUMBERS, THROWING BACK 15 POUNDERS. SEVEN DAYS TILL I GO OUT OF FISHING REHAB AND WETA LINE. BEST, CAPT. JIM