5/14 and 5/15

By tomconley

5/14: Captains Josh and Kirk both report very good to excellent days yesterday! Josh had the Carl Scuderi charter aboard the Yankee Clipper, while Kirk had the Super Thursday 5-5 trip aboard the Yankee Patriot. They went to the same area where Kirk had been successful on Wednesday, and found the same life and actively feeding fish. Rough seas and strong winds made anchoring imperative, although Kirk did do a bit of motor drifting on the morning. But the bite was very good on the anchor, so neither Josh nor Kirk had to make more than a handful of stops over the course of the day. In fact, Capt. Josh managed to fish one spot for three hours, catching fish the whole time! Both captains marked and caught fish everywhere they went. Catch was again about 70% haddock, which were eating sand eels and responded to jigs well. Lots of mackerel and herring out there too. John Kelley of Plymouth, MA won the pool on the Patriot with a 12-pound cod.

5/15: Unfortunately, according to Capt. Kirk, who worked deck while Capt. Ray was in the wheelhouse on the Yankee Patriot, the bite in the same area as yesterday was off today. The bait was still around, but was all up on the surface, and they weren’t marking the amount of life on the bottom that they had been. Due to the calm seas, they were able to drift all day and covered a lot of ground, but the bite just never materialized. The fish they did catch were mostly haddock, with some scrod-sized cod mixed in. Most fish were stuffed with sand eels, suggesting that it may have been an early-morning bite today. The pool fish was a 10-pound cod, and Kirk deemed it a fair day overall. You definitely had to work for ‘em out there today!