Friday fishing

By Bill C

Great day all around on friday. Capt. Kirk took a boat load out on the Patriot and had a very good day of fishing . Good mix of  haddock and cod. Capt. Pete had a charter on the Freedom . Everyone got off the boat with some nice looking bags of fish. Capt. Josh made a rare appearance on the morning 1/2 day and put quite a few nice haddock aboard. Don’t  forget ! If your coming up to fish, call and make a reservation. Don’t get stuck at the dock !!!

Overnight Trip June 21/ all day June 22

By Bill C

Another very successful Overnight trip was put together by Capt. Dave. More cod than haddock was caught both on bait and jigs. they stayed one step away from the dog fish which are starting to show up a little more each day. our overnight trips leave every Sunday night at 10pm. Give us a call to make a reservation. 800-942-5464

Captain Kirk took out the Yankee Clipper today for our Limited Capacity trip. He was on top of the fish all day . Another good trip. Remember if you are coming up to go 1/2 day fishing this weekend. Parking will be limited because of the St. Peters Fiesta. Call for parking suggestions. It won’t have any impact on all day fishing.

busy weekend

By Bill C

We were certainly running this past weekend. Half day fishing started with a bang . Quite a few haddock and some cod. Capt Dave was running from the dog fish. They are starting to show up a little more each week. The all day fishing is still going strong.

If you are planning to come up and go 1/2 day fishing this weekend . Remember it is Saint Peter’s Fiesta time. It means more traffic and less parking. Leave yourself some extra time to get to the boat. There will be a parking shuttle leaving from Stagefort park. Give us a call for parking suggestions.

Slow Day

By Bill C

The Yankee Patriot went out yesterday. The bite was slower than it has been. Plenty of fish marking but they just didn’t want to jump on the hooks. I guess thats why they call it fishing and not catching!!!

better late than never

By Bill C

Running a little behind today. Happy people coming off the boat again. Good day of fishing. Sundays nights overnight trip was outstanding. Lots of cod, haddock and pollock. Remember, buy one ticket in the month of June and get the second for 1/2 price. For any overnight trip. 800-942-5464 Come up and play.

Early Bite

By Bill C

Had a pretty good bite in the morning at anchor. Things slowed to a steady pick in the afternoon. Had to use the talent in the afternoon. They weren’t jumping on the hook. A good mix of cod, haddock, and cusk. We certainly can’t complain about the fishing this spring. Come on up and play !!!

Check out this fancy fishing rod cart. Gotta love it !!!

Check out Jared

By Bill C

Great job by 9 year old Jared Kendall of Oakam, Ma  He boated this beauty pollock. Good Job!!

rainy Sunday

By Bill C

Had a very good day of fishing. The rain scared away alot of people. Too bad you missed it.
10pm Departure tonight. Come with your Buddy and get 1/2 off the second ticket.

Update

By willy

Hey gang,

Sorry I’ve dropped the ball recently on reports. I started working deck on Monday after moving out of school last Friday, so it’s been tough to find time to report on catches as of late. Rather than going over each day’s fishing since my last report (gulp) eleven days ago, I’ll just sum up by saying that the fishing’s generally been good and there have been very few slow days—the action’s been consistent, if not a bail-job every day. Capts. Josh, Kirk and Dave have been experiencing good results on a mixed bag of cod, haddock, pollock, and cusk. Pool fish have generally been cod or pollock in the low to mid-20s. Both bait and jigs have been effective, although jigs are responsible for most of the larger cod and pollock. Dogfish are a virtually a non-issue—fingers crossed.

My first week on the water (the Yankee Clipper with Capt. Josh) has seen an impressive number of nice market cod in the 8-15-pound range, plus a lot of pollock ranging from mediums to large ones in the mid-twenties. Monday saw a lot of nice cod to 23 pounds come over the rails despite the fact that the bite wasn’t really on and a number of the fish that came aboard were snagged. A pile of haddock hit the deck as well.

Tuesday’s trip began with a slow pick on small and barely-legal cod but the end of the day was excellent “old-school” fishing on cod and pollock actively feeding on mackerel and herring. The day ended with a two-and-a-half-hour drift that produced fish-a-cast action on market cod to 24 pounds and pollock to 15 pounds; proficient jig anglers easily limited out on cod to 20 pounds and were releasing legal fish by day’s end!

Wednesday’s trip began the way Tuesday ended: a two-hour drift of fish-a-cast action. I had the day off and, jigging in the pulpit, put around 20 keepers in the boat during the drift: a limit of cod to 12 pounds and ten or twelve pollock to 21.5 pounds. The wind increased a bit and we made a few anchor stops, at which we scratched away at scrod, haddock, and cusk but nothing to write home about. Overall, it was a good day, with very good to excellent fishing on that first drift and just fair fishing afterward.

Thursday’s trip, a marathon, saw steady fishing on both jigs and bait for the entire trip. The weather was a bit snooty but anglers stuck with it, and high hooks had around 20 keepers, a mix of cod, pollock, and haddock. Red Paulhus won the pool with a 25.5-pound pollock.

Friday’s trip, a charter, was fair to good overall, with action ranging from a grind to some periods of strong fishing. Haddock predominated but there were a number of cod to 21 pounds caught, as well as a dozen or so medium pollock ranging from 10-16 pounds.

Saturday’s trip was good for proficient jig fisherman who knew how to cast a jig; Loretta Miner, for example, tallied around fifteen keepers, mostly small market cod but with some pollock, haddock, and cusk mixed in. Others enjoyed a steady pick on an even mix of keeper cod and haddock, with a few pollock thrown in. A 26-pound pollock that ate a jig took pool honors.

Wireless at the house is up and running, so look for more consistent reports to start flowing in!

Day Fishing Not Bad; First Overnighter=Excellent!

By willy

Sunday, 5/23:
Capt. Josh reports a fair day of fishing aboard the Yankee Clipper on Sunday’s 7-4 day trip. They drift-fished all day and experienced a decent pick of mostly haddock with some cod, pollock and cusk mixed in.

Yankee Fleet patrons love their haddock!

The bite was definitely better in the morning and more or less died in the afternoon after the tide changed. High hook was Pete Jones with 11 keepers, mostly haddies.

5/23-24 Overnighter:
Capts. Dave and Kirk ran the first overnight trip of the season aboard the Yankee Freedom, and report excellent results! The light load of anglers started early Monday morning with a fast bite on a mix of cod and pollock, mostly the latter, on jigs, before settling into a good pick on those two species plus some haddock. An easy day, Capt. Dave reports. A 12-pound pollock took the pool.

Monday, 5/24:

I had the pleasure of jumping aboard the Yankee Clipper with Capt. Josh at the wheel and my dear friend Audrey accompanying me for her first cod trip. After a two-hour steam we made a couple of drifts and found a grinding pick of mostly haddock and cusk with a few short and keeper cod in the mix. Audrey hooked and dropped something large before cajoling a nice haddock into snapping up her teaser and then snaring a cusk.

Audrey White with a beautiful haddock jigged up aboard the Yankee Clipper on May 24.

We were picking away and certainly could have scraped a day out of it, but Josh had bigger, better things in mind and around 10:30 he elected to make a major area change. After a 45-minute steam, we found immediate action on actively-feeding pollock and cod with some haddock in the mix too. A 30-inch striped bass was caught as well.

Most cod were shorts, but there were some keepers mixed in, while the pollock averaged 6-10 pounds and all the haddock were large, 5 pounds and up. Fish were pounding sand eels and took jigs readily—bait guys had a few haddock but also were harassed by enormous female dogfish.

Audrey White with a cusk aboard the Yankee Clipper, May 25.

The action was so fast at times that I put down the rod and helped out with gaffing fish and getting anglers re-rigged. Audrey was in fine form, hooking up on almost every drop, much to the chagrin of her railmates, myself included!

Unfortunately, while the fish were amenable to biting once we found them, they seemed to be stacked up in small, localized patches; Josh had to keep his eyes glued to the machine in search of fresh piles. As a result, the final number of keepers at the end of the day wasn’t quite where we would have liked to see it, making for a fairish to good day overall. Between us, Audrey and I put something like 10 keepers in the boat, a mix of cod, pollock, haddock and cusk. But we still had a lot of action, with short cod keeping us busy when the quality fish weren’t coming aboard. We stayed late to put a few more fish in the boat and weren’t tied up

"Mr. Wee" with a haddock aboard the Yankee Clipper, May 25.

at the dock until about 5:30. A 14-pound pollock beat out a couple of similarly-sized specimens to take pool honors.

Tuesday, 5/25:

Capt. Pete reports a slow day aboard the Yankee Freedom on Tuesday’s limited-load trip. Just a slow pick of haddock, cusk, a few pollock, and a mix of short and keeper cod. A 10-pound pollock took the pool.