GAMBLER --Shake Down Cruise Cod

[captbogan]

We took the Gambler for a ride today to check everything out and get some fishing in. Looked down the beach a-ways and tried 3 drifts for stripers but had no bites.

Headed East and decided to try some rough bottom in 110 ft. Plenty of dogs to start but Anthony tossed a jig and caught a keeper cod pretty quick. So we started jigging up some nice keeper cod between 6 and 8lbs --only one throw back. Tried another wreck not too far away and had a good sign of blackfish too --which we released-- on clams.

For just over 2 hours fishing, 6 of us caught a dozen keeper cod --most were on jigs.

We are supposed to start 7AM till 2:30PM daily, starting Friday but Friday's weather looks bad. Saturday's weather looks like a good shot. We'll be targeting cod, ling and taug. Working on getting crabs for Saturday but if not, taug will hit clams too, especially this time of year.

We also had to nix our tilefish trip for Sunday due to high winds.