June 8

By tomconley

It sounds like the fishing was just fair aboard the Yankee Clipper today. Capt. Josh reports that the haddock didn’t seem too interested in eating the clams, although those who stuck with bait did have a few of the silver ones in the bag by day’s end. Unlike yesterday, skilled jiggers did better than the bait fishermen—the high hooks for the trip were Dave and Pat, jigging in the pulpit, who each had ten or eleven legal fish. In addition to some haddock, jig fishermen had a handful of 6-10-pound pollock as well as a run of nice codfish in the 8-15-pound range that bit for a little while right before the tide change. Josh marked a lot of fish that he believes were more of those cod, and suspects that as the summer progresses and the water warms in the deeper areas they’ve been fishing, those fish will begin to bite more consistently. We’ll see! The pool winner was a 15-pound cod jigged up by Gary Parker of Salem, MA.

Willy G.