Yankee Fleet
special
Don’t forget our overnight special. Boat leaves at 10pm Sunday night. Buy one ticket at full price get the second ticket at 1/2 price
Jun
12
Jun
10
Nasty Day
Hey gang, No trip today due to the lousy weather. We will be back at it tomorrow 7-4 aboard the Yankee Patriot. we are offering a great deal on Sundays overnight trip. Buy one ticket at full price and get the second at 1/2 price. Call today. Stacey is there waiting for your bookings
Jun
9
good day again
Capt Kirk. Took the Yankee Patriot out today with our group of wednesday regulars. Fishing was better than average The mix of cod and haddock were pretty even again. There wasn’t much of a difference between bait and jig fishing. Looks like a nice weekend ahead of us. We still have room on the Yankee Clipper leaving at 6 am Saturday. We are offering a special on our overnight trip leaving Sunday night at 10pm. Buy one ticket at full price and get the second at !/2 price.
Half day fishing is going on Saturday and Sunday. Call and make reservations. 800-942-5464. They are always recomended
Jun
8
Early bite
Just got off the phone with Captain Kirk. Good fishing again today. More of a morning bite today than all day. Quick fishing in the morning. 50/50 mix of cod and haddock. Slowed down around noon. Stayed steady for the rest of the day. We have a deal going on for our overnight trips. Book a trip by the end of June and get the second person for 1/2 price. Come on up and play. Don’t forget to make a reservation. Boat was full today. We had to turn some people away. If we know your coming . You won’t be turned away !!
Jun
7
Perfect Monday
Capt Pete Mondello was at the helm of the yankee Clipper today. Just got off the phone with him. He reported an excellent day of fishing. he had an even mix of cod and haddock, caught on both bait and jigs. Tomorrow is Limited Capacity Tuesday. 40% fewer people, means more elbow room.
Jun
7
Jun
7
Sunday Report
Sunday’s trip aboard the Yankee Clipper began with a solid 1.5-hour drift which saw good action on market-sized cod and pollock, mainly on jigs. There wasn’t much wind but eventually the tide made anchoring up imperative, at which time the action tapered a bit and settled into a grinding pick for the remainder of the day. Jiggers continued to catch cod in the 6-12-pound range as well as pollock and a couple of cusk, while bait anglers caught cod and some haddock. Dogs were around but anglers who kept their bait close to the bottom were able to pull some desirable groundfish from the mix. Overall, it was a good day on the ocean, with about a 60/30/10 split of pollock, cod, and haddock, respectively. High hooks had around fifteen legal, and the pool winner was an 18-pound pollock.
Jun
7
Fishing continues to be the best we have seen in years. The cod continue to keep coming over the rail in good numbers. Jig and bait seem to be working well. The haddock bite continues to be very steady too. A great early season pollock bite has also added some excitement. The weekend fishing was good, but the weather wasn’t so cooperative. Half day fishing has started on the weekends. Come on up and fish with us .
Jun
5
Update
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!
May
25
Day Fishing Not Bad; First Overnighter=Excellent!
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.
- Mr. Wee is on again!