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What have you got to say about the topic of: "Gloucester, Sunday May 18". Here's how is started: "I fished the NW corner of Stellwagon Bank in 100 125 FOW with two "
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05-19-2008, 03:39 PM
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| NBS Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Westfield, MA
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I fished the NW corner of Stellwagon Bank in 100 125 FOW with two friends Paul and Ed. We started fishing with clams & jigs; the jigs were working the best. We found very large areas of bait and picked up mainly small cod in the 22 26 inch range. The sands eels were ever where sometimes even breaking water around the boat. Most of all the cod we landed had many large sand eels in their mouths. We also had good catches of mackerel that were hitting the teasers above this jig. We later moved to deeper water approx. 175 feet and caught a few nice haddock. Overall we managed about 10 nice haddock and 15 keeper cod. | ||
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05-19-2008, 04:14 PM
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| Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Madison Ct
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| Thanks for the report Dave B . Did you take any Pics ? | ||
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05-19-2008, 04:27 PM
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| NBS Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Granby& Mystic
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| I fished with Dave B on Sunday and when we left the dock at 6:30 there was a stiff S.W. breeze and when we got on the Bank it was hard to hold bottom using 50# P.P. and 9-12 oz. jigs. We put out a drift sock tied to the mid cleat which made our drift beam to the wind and we could work our jigs without a problem. A lesson learned. With so much bait on the Bank, clams no, jigs yes. At times there were so many sand eels around us that it sounded and looked like a heavy rain and the whales were on them. It always surprises me when a codfish will take a jig when it has a fist sized ball of sand eels in it's mouth. Another great day on the Bank and some good eating ahead. | ||
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05-20-2008, 07:00 AM
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| NBS Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Westfield, MA
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| Unfortunately I forgot to snap a few pics of these nice fish. | ||
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