Francis Fleet Trip 11/28

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by Rob Rockcrawler

Sea bass will be incidental catches. If you get into them try a little further off the bottom, change things up a bit. They love the 3" gulp swimming mullet if you have any around, wouldn't buy a pack just for them though. Bring your own scup hooks, i would go with 2/0 or 3/0 gami octopus. Strong enough for anything you will hook into. I think i am going to have to take a trip, the reports look pretty good they update them almost daily.

Does the boat provide bait that would be able to catch the occasional sea bass and scup?

Which trip would you do? The tog trip (which seems to get a lot of sea bass, and occasionally, tons of scup), or the blackfish trip, which seems to have a bit less of a chance of getting scup or cod?

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

Does the boat provide bait that would be able to catch the occasional sea bass and scup?

Which trip would you do? The tog trip (which seems to get a lot of sea bass, and occasionally, tons of scup), or the blackfish trip, which seems to have a bit less of a chance of getting scup or cod?

Blackfish will start winding down; we've had 1 seabass and 1 cod mixed in the last few trips, down considerably on the seabass since early Nov. I would go for the cod/mixed bag trip. Where I have been seeing the head boats, they are both a decent steam from PJ, so the length of the ride isn't a big factor.

Going to give blackfish a go tomorrow on the Newport grounds. See if they cooperate.

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND

Blackfish will start winding down; we've had 1 seabass and 1 cod mixed in the last few trips, down considerably on the seabass since early Nov. I would go for the cod/mixed bag trip. Where I have been seeing the head boats, they are both a decent steam from PJ, so the length of the ride isn't a big factor.

Going to give blackfish a go tomorrow on the Newport grounds. See if they cooperate.

Good luck, let us know how you make out.