June 12

By Bill C

Yankee Fleet has had a fantastic week fishing. We started out last weekend with two steady but not blockbuster days of fishing. Each day improved through the week. Looks like Capt’s Kirk, Dave, and Josh and got the fish sighted in.

Capt Josh took the Yankee Clipper on our Thursday Marathon 5am to 5pm. The gang of hearty anglers that braved the rainy cold day were rewarded with our best day of the season so far. Everyone limited out on cod. All being fish in the 15 to 25 lb range. There was no shortage of big haddock thrown in to the mix as well.

Hearing the comments coming off the boat each day, are like the good ole days. Talk on the dock is, everyone is agreeing that the spring fishing this year has been better than it’s been in years.

Our first offshore trip of the season left Tuesday night at 10pm. The steady east wind made it a tough ride out. The fishing started of slow but Capt. Tom put the boat on a pile of big haddock and everyone had a good trip.

The pool winners this week were William Morehouse of Gloucester, caught a 15lb wolfish. James Trummer of Newtonville got himself a 23lb cod. Loretta Miner, of Vergennes VT Jigged a 12lb cod.  Pete Chiapulis of Worcester added a 15lb cod. Reyes Aniceto of Springfield caught a 20lb cod. Gary Parker of Salem joined in with a 20lb cod. Jim Pittmar caught a nice 15lb cod on bait. Scott Navaroli of Leicester brought up a 10lb haddock.  Congratulations to all our pool winners.

Bill Campbell