Charter May 24

Today's trip was a good one. Took Bud Demmons and his crew out to Jeffrey's . . . 28 miles away. Once there, we anchored in deep water and slowly picked at haddock in the am. The tide turned at noon and picked up, making fishing on anchor much harder as the lines scaled behind the boat. We hauled anchor and drifted across the ledge and the haddock fishing picked up. We made several drifts and stayed an extra half hour, putting 50 fish or so in the boat for the day.

Charter May 23

That was fun . . NOT!

May 22 Charter.

It seems the entire Jeffrey's ledge is either void of life, full of anorexic fish OR there is so much bait on the ledge that the groundfish are stuffed. I'm hoping the last choice is the correct one. We headed out to 17 miles off the beach to start under clear skies and blustery south west winds. We fished for a couple hours out there and caught 1 keeper cod fish who was lost and threw back about 6 undersized fish. So we once again headed into my "secret" spot and managed to put some nice market cod on the boat. All in all, everyone went home with fish and they booked for next year. As of now, I have 5 trips for 2010.

May 17 Charter

We left the dock at 5am, looking to get an early bite with 15 people on board. Of course, there was no way I was going near Jeffrey's Ledge, so we headed to my "secret" spot. For the first two hours, we dealt with fog, fast currents and rain-- and no fish. Then a front moved through at about 1,000,000 knots and that blew the fog and rain out. After the winds died, the fishing picked up. We quickly ran out of shrimp that I supply to the fishermen, because the market cod were inhaling those and not the clams. But then the clams started working, then the jigs. By the end of our day, I had half the boat fishing jigs, the other with bait, and both were catching. When the dust settled and we started heading west, we had 52 fish on the boat-- two 24 pounders and a couple of 19's.

More photos from Saturday's trip!

Thanks Peter!

May 16

Here's the stats: 60 fish: 3 hours: 7 fishermen. Ok, so maybe a little background info. We headed out to southern Jeffreys cuz that's where EVERYBODY got them, yesterday. We arrived and quickly put 2 in the box and released 8. That was it. FOR THE DAY. We drove all over hell and back, in the fog, stopping here and there and getting nothing. At 11:30, I asked the charter if we could make a move, a long move (almost took an hour). We tossed the anchor and for the next 3 hours put 60 fish in the boat. Biggest was 24 pounds. Stayed a little bit late, too. On the way home, we booked the boat for May 15, 2010.

May 10

Took Harold Congdon and his group out today. Tried the inside super secret big fish spot-- but we are still a little early for that funny business. Fishing was slow to start once we got on the Ledge, but then, around 10am, rods doubled over and a herd of cod came on deck. We had to weed our way through the small ones (we released over 50 for the day) to get the keepers, and they were all nice keepers. Got some haddock, too. At noon thirty, the tide changed and the fishing shut down on the entire ledge. We made several moves and picked up a few more fish-- marked lots of them on the machine-- for the day before heading west for the big ledge. On the way home, Harold wanted to know what days I had open for 2010 NOT on a full moon!

May 2. First Trip!

Hi everybody. Hope you all had a good winter. My charter of 13 passengers left the dock at 7am for the fishing grounds on southern Jeffreys. The weather was great for May. In the morning, we anchored on the western edge and caught some keepers and a ton of throwbacks. Mostly haddock. The tide let up by noon and we drifted and motor drifted the rest of the day. Picked away at more keepers among the babies. Caught an ocean cat that was the pool winner and ended the day with 35 keepers, mostly haddock, 4 cod, a cat and one cusk. I still have available spots in July and August, but they are going fast, so call me to book a date soon!


Rob