12/4 Report, and Fishing this Thurs-Sunday!

By Tom O

Sorry for the recent delay in updates!

Capt. Josh took the Yankee Freedom out last Friday, December 4 and reports a fair to good day overall. The pollock were on the move, and it was hard to effectively anchor on top of them, making their successful capture a function of Josh’s persistence at the wheel and anglers’ persistence at the rail. Most of the trip consisted of quick flurries followed by a few minutes of nothing, then another quick flurry, as schools of fish would scurry under the boat. As usual, skilled casters like Dave Parsons, who had upwards of fifteen fish himself, hooked up far more consistently than those who flopped their jigs straight down. They tried a stop for haddock at the end of the day with limited success, experiencing only a slow pick on the silver ones. A 20-pound pollock won the pool. The highlight of the day was a fat 28-30-pound codfish that snapped up a jig before being successfully lip-gaffed and released by mate Capt. Kirk. Them’s the breaks.

The Yankee Freedom is scheduled to run this coming Thursday through Sunday, weather permitting. Give the office a call for an update on the weather and to make sure there are enough anglers booked for the boat to sail.

Willy