First trip of the year went real nice! New motor was awesome and the fishing was great also!!
We got a good load of Cod and Pollock, no Haddock:fury: But that's ok for my first time in this area I think we did real well!
Fish on the bank in 100 to 130 feet of water, tried clams but all that did was bring in the Dog.s! So we just jigged. After a few moves we got on top of them just fine. I would say 1 in 7 were shorts with some nice 10 pounders.

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Joe,

Do you normally gill and gut all your fish before fileting? Lot of extra work there. We usually just bleed and ice/slurry to firm them up before fileting.

yea, thats a left over from the commercial days, always gilled them back then. But they get packed real good in ice after as I normally don't clean fish the same day as I am always to tired

Nice day and full coolers, hoping for similar day/luck tomorrow. Few showers, maybe.....

Just got my 20hr service (after rebuild) and a clean bill of health, letting that engine rip tomorrow.

Nice!

i need to get a video cam.

This is my first boat video cam, my brother bought it for his wife and she did not like it so I got it from him for $50, So I won't be out much if anything happens to it.

Joe,

Do you normally gill and gut all your fish before fileting? Lot of extra work there. We usually just bleed and ice/slurry to firm them up before fileting.

I do . . . I don't want any cod terd paste near my fillets.

Joe,

Do you normally gill and gut all your fish before fileting? Lot of extra work there. We usually just bleed and ice/slurry to firm them up before fileting.



Bleeding make all the difference in the world !
My trips, every cod/pollock/haddock ect... goes straight into the livewell with their throats slit (Nice having a huge livewell)
After some time in the the livewell they get filleted, bagged & iced.
Fillets get skinned later due to regulations.