SB cod trip

[BrianS]

Im game to be on someones crew.

[Youngmoon74]

I'm in ....no boat but have money for gas etc. and have my own gear, jigs etc.

Hey bjs sounds like u go on party boats now and then. Do you ever go on the ones out of gloucester or hampton?

[BrianS]

Im from the south shore.

Ive considered Yankee Fleet, but I did all right the last couple times on Captain Johns out of Plymouth. Glawsta is a long trip north.. and even longer trip south after 8 hours at sea and a cooler full of fish...

[Youngmoon74]

Yea true enough, I tend to head out of those ports since they are much closer to me. Well if ur ever up this way let me know.

[BrianS]

Im not above traveling a bit if a crew wanted to meet up somewhere and take a boat or whatever out.

[Youngmoon74]

We'll have to get a bunch of SB members together on yankees or john's sometime.

[outfished]

I fish with Yankee Fleet on occasion. Was there two weeks ago, waaaaay too many folks onboard, shoulder to shoulder, tangles all day long. Also they DO NOT ALLOW braided line. They will ask you to take the line off or put it away. I suppose the weekdays are much better than the weekends, keeps some of the riffraft away. I used to fish Capt. John's years ago but got tired of catching dogfish so I gave up on them. You may want to look into The Helen H on the cape and Walsh's in Lynn. I hear they run a pretty good outfit and thats where I'm headed next time. As for a SB trip, I'd like to partake, can surely help with expense's and have my own gear.

[BrianS]

Oh I totally agree.. I did the normal Captain John's day trip last year... WAY too many people, but we revel in dogfish apocalypse, so when the cod werent biting, we were just "helping" get the dogfish back in the water..

However, the Stellwagon trip is like 1/2 the people and for the more hardcore type I think since its like double the cost. I think I saw 1 tangle all day on that trip and the boat absolutely cleaned up...

Good times..

[Youngmoon74]

Outfished went on yankees tues last week. Not too crowded and a decent bite of haddock. I've heard lotz of good things about walsh's but the clams can be sometimes good sometimes poor quality. If ur jigging that won't really matter, but personally I'm trying to cash in on the haddock bite right now.

bjs how many do they limit the stellwagon trip too?

[BrianS]

50 people on the boat.. bascially two slots per person... at least it felt that way.. my dad and i are pretty big guys and we had more than enough room to be comfortable.

[outfished]

I agree, mid-week trips are the way to go as well as the longer trips like stellwagon and the such. The two and three day trips look promising, planning on one of those very soon. I believe capt. John may not go out far enough, thus fishing warmer and shallower waters that attract the dogs. I grew tired of coming home empty handed and aggravated