Deep Sea Jeffrey's Ledge
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 10:59 am
So since our usual Father's Day private charter trip wasn't able to get scheduled with the COVID-19 junk coming out of restrictions so late that the trip wound up being canceled (hopefully can make it up this Sept.), we decided to book a 12 hour marathon trip for a 5 to 5 outing.
Started out with a lighter load of people so wasn't terrible manning the rails.
Weather was good most of the day, but the ride back was arduous with rough seas.
90F onshore, but in the low 70's way out there.
We hit haddock right off the bat, but as soon as a few came over the rails the dog packs showed up and we'd have to respot and this was pretty much the norm all day. The tide was strong and the drift sock had a hard time and we'd drift off the hump too quick so the captain moved to anchoring but was pretty much the same story, drop lines, pick off a few then the dogfish would show up and ruin the party.
My son & I managed 20 haddock, 2 big cusk, a mack, a whiting and a couple of big pollock, so we had a blast and appeared to be one of the few sets of people that made it off the boat with a bigger haul.
Drive back home to VT was uneventful until we rain into that massive storm front which we had to slow down a lot just to see the pavement, but still made it home at a decent hour.
All the fish we brought home we nicely packed in plenty of ice and I came home from work Tuesday and filleted them all and we wound up with 20# of fish fillets, which we grilled some haddock and ate Wednesday...YUM!
Oh, forgot to mention we had a the USCG cutter out there on station long before we even dropped lines, then later in the day we had a Mola decide to come check us out (which i did manage to get a pick of it as it was clearing the stern and submerging again). Was neat to see this fish that is the size of a car hood and probably int he 300# range.
Started out with a lighter load of people so wasn't terrible manning the rails.
Weather was good most of the day, but the ride back was arduous with rough seas.
90F onshore, but in the low 70's way out there.
We hit haddock right off the bat, but as soon as a few came over the rails the dog packs showed up and we'd have to respot and this was pretty much the norm all day. The tide was strong and the drift sock had a hard time and we'd drift off the hump too quick so the captain moved to anchoring but was pretty much the same story, drop lines, pick off a few then the dogfish would show up and ruin the party.
My son & I managed 20 haddock, 2 big cusk, a mack, a whiting and a couple of big pollock, so we had a blast and appeared to be one of the few sets of people that made it off the boat with a bigger haul.
Drive back home to VT was uneventful until we rain into that massive storm front which we had to slow down a lot just to see the pavement, but still made it home at a decent hour.
All the fish we brought home we nicely packed in plenty of ice and I came home from work Tuesday and filleted them all and we wound up with 20# of fish fillets, which we grilled some haddock and ate Wednesday...YUM!
Oh, forgot to mention we had a the USCG cutter out there on station long before we even dropped lines, then later in the day we had a Mola decide to come check us out (which i did manage to get a pick of it as it was clearing the stern and submerging again). Was neat to see this fish that is the size of a car hood and probably int he 300# range.