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Fishing report from the salty waters 7-2-08 |
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YOAdrien |
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Jul 3, 08 - 9:25 AM |
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68.112.253.82 |
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info@yoadriencharters.com |
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http://www.yoadriencharters.com |
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Rounded up My Dad and Capt Dan and Togue for a day on the salt. Left Salisbury about 4:30 and headed out off the beach and anchored up for mackerel. Caught probably 80+ in less than an hour. The plan was to get some big ones to take offshore for tuna baits. We had plenty of horses and a bunch of tinkers too.
We ran out to the inside of the ledge and found dogfish everywhere all over the top and mid water, this would make tuna fishing impossible they were biting our jigs 2 feet down, you could have just free gaffed all the dogfish you wanted.
With tuna chunking out of the question we bottom fished a couple drifts in 200-309ft of water, kept a dozen nice fish: cod, haddock, and pollack up to 10 pounds, released about 30? small codfish. Jigs and clam bait did equally well.
Ran 28 miles back to shore at just over 30mph with a 2 foot following sea to make it back for the outgoing tide which started around 1.
We stopped and fished for mackerel a bit more to really fill the well with live macks, got into them very hot after a slow start took about 30 minutres to really turn them on hot, then it was game on.
Headed to the river for about 3 hours of drifting the outgoing, the drift was very nice from the 7 buoy all the way out to the red gong outside the river. Many drifts produced 5-8 fish, 4 guys drifting with a good number of triple and quad hookups, the best bite was outside the river in the NASTY water, it was hold onto something and hold onto the rod, had to drop to the knees a few times in the rough stuff but it was worth it because nobody got hurt, well except for the fish! Not certain about a number but it was a lot of bass that's for sure. We had probably 80 live mackerel in the well and plenty of dead ones too but we just kept pitching beautiful live baits to them and they couldn't resist it.
Biggest bass were 18 and 26 pounds with a bunch of 7-9 pound bass too. Togue had the 26 and i got the 18. Here is a couple pics. |
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