S-B.com cod trip report thread... With pics!

[freebie]

Originally Posted by JohnR

Reports are - fishing was slow:
Some Cod, Haddock, Pollock came over the rail into the boat. Nothing big. Striperman36 had the biggest Cod.

John Pollock almost joined his kin on the ocean side of the rail

Amazingly, I think only one Dogfish was caught - heard but did not see.

Some flounder and occasional wolffish, and cusk came up as well.

Mr Pollock was serious bad luck. He stood next to me for a while and the fish stopped biting. I don't think he was three steps away from me heading into the cabin and the bite started again. Pretty sure someone up the bow sent him back to try and ruin the great fishing us stern guys were sharing.

[zacs]

I also had a great trip. Fishing could have been better, but I went home with a decent bag of haddock fillets, so I can't complain too much. Unfortunately, the 3 or 4 people that I had promised fish to aren't so lucky.

Striperman36 thanks for the flounder fillets!

BrianS is a jigging machine. I think he might be the only person on the boat that didn't switch to bait once. And it paid off with the second largest cod... but he missed the collection for the pool

We had a good group of fishermen on the bow. Much superior fishermen to the slackers in the stern. The crowd on the stbd side was kept entertained by Sea Dangles running commentary.

iamskippy bought dinner at Kelly's on the way home (thanks bro!). I ate way too much, and combined with the two 5hr energy i guzzled for the drive, it made for some pretty bad indigestion all night and this morning... feeling better now.

Can't wait for a fish fry tonight!!!

[RickBomba]

Nice to see everybody. I had a really good time. I'm one sore puppy today, though!

[ThrowingTimber]

Thanks to niko and Zac for the trip planning. Had a good time nice meeting some new folks and always nice catching up with others.
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[zacs]

i can't take credit for any planning, i just helped keep some names straight.

One thing that always sucks at these type of things is you meet so many people it is hard to keep faces/real-name/screen-name straight. especially when pretty much everyone is wearing orange slickers...

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by zacs

especially when pretty much everyone is wearing orange slickers...

Almost everyone

Thanks to Zac for driving! Skippy for Kelly's (me must have been the smalliest in there) and SBurnsey for the jig rod loan

[eelskimmer]

Next year it is going to take some
serious bribe money to make sure
I do not bring a banana on board.
And even more serious money to
keep me home. I can be vindictive.

Wait I take that back, Sea Dangles
was upwind of me all day and he was
not only vindictive but LOL at every
blast. The yuppie swine.

[PRBuzz]

Originally Posted by zacs

One thing that always sucks at these type of things is you meet so many people it is hard to keep faces/real-name/screen-name straight. especially when pretty much everyone is wearing orange slickers...

Since there seems to be only a single photo, I put names on the people I know, sorry I didn't meet the yellow slicker!

I'll excuse people in the future if they can only ID me from the back of my head. Good luck, I'm usually wearing a hat.

[zacs]

that is eddie the fish pimp, aka stripercrazy

[RIJIMMY]

hard to tell without the purple hat

[Goose]

I hadn't been on a S-B shindig in a long time, even though the bite was slow I had great time. Thanks to the guys who made it happen.
I thought the crew of old salts were patience loving and understanding kind and forgiving. Those @$%&*() couldn't put me on a dam keeper cod!!!!

long and dangly long and dangly

[striperman36]

they should have thrown Derrick off the stern.

[derekl]

Originally Posted by striperman36

they should have thrown Derrick off the stern.

wtf! why is it the oldest guys are always the ones
father time, one of the mates on the boat started with the cracks early and now you,

[striperman36]

Keel Haul, the Bastard!!

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by derekl

wtf! why is it the oldest guys are always the ones
father time, one of the mates on the boat started with the cracks early and now you,

[Rob Rockcrawler]

I was surprised nobody chummed. I wanted to give a plug to the first whi got green but it never happened. The plug went to the young kid on the boat. I wish i had a set up like he was using when i was his age. Dad's doing a good job with him.

[jimmy z]

It sounds like all had a good time, even though a lot of fish weren't caught.

[The Dad Fisherman]

How'd you guys do on the Haddock?....I'd seriously rather catch those then cod myself....

[Piscator]

Every time I was about to pull out the camera, it was raining too hard.

[zacs]

FishOn, that is a great re-cap! Great to talk meet and chat. You also deserve kudos on the organizational front.

Haddock fishing was pretty decent, actually, with delicious results. I wish I could catch this fish all the time, because my kids would eat way more fish if I did!!!

Flounder was also delicious. dusted with flour and seared in butter... oh man Bill, not sure why you would give that one away, but my family thanks you! Yours plus mine equaled a flounder dinner for the Fam last night.

Rest of the fish (not much) is in the freezer now.

RE: No Pics - I have a few from inside the cabin, but when fishing, my camera/phone were under layers of rain gear, and the weather was just to wet and raw to consider breaking them out for pics... sorry...

[PRBuzz]

Originally Posted by zacs

FishOn, that is a great re-cap!

Haddock fishing was pretty decent, actually, with delicious results. I wish I could catch this fish all the time, because my kids would eat way more fish if I did!!!

I think the "7" rating is highly biased by the quality of the haddock after one of those fillets hit the mouth, can't argue that one, but the quality of fishing for haddock rates a 4-5. To fish for 8hrs and pull up as few fish as we did doesn't rate a 7!

[striperman36]

Originally Posted by zacs

FishOn, that is a great re-cap! Great to talk meet and chat. You also deserve kudos on the organizational front.

Haddock fishing was pretty decent, actually, with delicious results. I wish I could catch this fish all the time, because my kids would eat way more fish if I did!!!

Flounder was also delicious. dusted with flour and seared in butter... oh man Bill, not sure why you would give that one away, but my family thanks you! Yours plus mine equaled a flounder dinner for the Fam last night.

Rest of the fish (not much) is in the freezer now.

RE: No Pics - I have a few from inside the cabin, but when fishing, my camera/phone were under layers of rain gear, and the weather was just to wet and raw to consider breaking them out for pics... sorry...

I just had my 3rd Burnt End Lunch. I am outta town till 6/10.

[niko]

fish on did a bunch of the organizing - thanks keith. next year we can try stellwagen w/ the viking out of quincy or capt john out of plymouth.

[Fish On]

Please don't mention it guys. I really only made a couple phone calls. I just love to fish. What made this trip was all the guys that signed up, paid and filled the trip in only a few weeks. Great effort!

I was hoping that we would see some of the same cod fishing as these guys have experienced in late May/early June over the past several years. The cod in those fishing reports are huge. With hindsight it seems as though the cod may have been better on Stellwagon for this trip. I'm up for that next year Niko.

My family has always loved to eat haddock so taking home 9 keepers between the two of us was considered a very happy result. I've been eating haddock since Sunday and have one cooked fillet leftover in the fridge. Not one made it to the freezer. Still, I really wanted to crank up my first 40 lb cod from 200 feet....still itching to do that.