Quincy Flounder Report

[Little Sister Charters]

Finally launched on Wednesday, April 29th and went fishing right then to test the waters and the boat. Everything worked pretty good except the fishing! The water was far too cold at 45 but in the past 8 days it has come up to 49 or a little better in some spots but the fish are having none of it!
So far the tally is:
Weds (04/29) ...0
Thurs (04/30) ...1
Sat (05/02) ...4
Sun (05/03)...6
Tues (05/05)...4
Thurs (05/07)... 6
The only glimmer of hope is that most of the fishing has been "on the drift" as the few times I anchored/chummed we caught nothing but skates. Today was different; we spent an hour on the anchor and got 4 good ones so that was the best hour of the year so far. For Saturdays trip we will only anchor and see how that goes....JC

[howardrf]

Used to be the flounder capital. Caught loads. Many YEARS ago.

[rumster]

Thanks for the honest report. I am glad that I had the opportunity to experience that fishery when it was on fire! Would make that trip in a heart beat if that area produced decent numbers consistently.

[Skolmann]

Wait for it, a little early. I've fished with Capt. Jason for flounder numerous times over the past 12+ years and never had a bad trip. In fact I can only think of one trip where we didn't limit out the boat and even then we were a fish or 2 short only because we raised the boat size limit from 12 to 15 inches-otherwise we would have limited on that trip as well. Lost count of how many #3.5-4 flatties I've boated with him over the years.

[team heat]

In case anyone is interested Me and my cousins took the train from Trenton New Jersey to Boston.Had all our coolers,rod ,reels and tackle right on the train.Plenty of room for everything.The cost was 59.00 dollars one way.Enterprise rental cars picked us at the train station and took us to get our rental car.5 hors to Boston with not that many stops on the way.Didnt have to deal wiyh traffic,tolls etc etc.Best way to go .We went cod fishing down in Green Harbor but would work just as good for flounder fishing with Little sister charters.They also had a dining car if you wanted to eat.

[Little Sister Charters]

Originally Posted by Skolmann

Wait for it, a little early. I've fished with Capt. Jason for flounder numerous times over the past 12+ years and never had a bad trip. In fact I can only think of one trip where we didn't limit out the boat and even then we were a fish or 2 short only because we raised the boat size limit from 12 to 15 inches-otherwise we would have limited on that trip as well. Lost count of how many #3.5-4 flatties I've boated with him over the years.

Thanks for having faith ANDREW! With the water temps a bit cool (what a winter) I was expecting a late start this year. Last year "it" didn't kick in until May 9th and this winter was even colder so I'm not worried yet. 2014 was the best (flounder) season since the mid 80's and surely the best I've seen since I've been up here (1998). Thanks to the cool water in 2014 we had great flounder fishing through the end of July and for that I will take the late start any time!
JC

[Little Sister Charters]

A little better today (05/09/15) with 10 fish but had only two fishermen aboard, the other two had to bow out last night (explosive diarrhea)...
first spot - 1
2nd spot - 0
3rd spot - 0
4th spot - 3
5th spot (same as #3) - 0
6th spot (anchor/chum) - 0
7th spot (#3 again) - 6

The difference seems to be that at the last stop the sun finally appeared and we caught a few. Perhaps tomorrow with sun predicted the whole trip???? We will see!

Captain Jason Colby
Little Sister Charters
fishinglsister@aol.com
617-755-3740
www.littlesister1.com

[Little Sister Charters]

12 fish kept today, very slow to say the least. While we have shown "somewhat steady improvement", it is not in the leaps and bounds I was hoping for. I can't blame the water temperature or maybe I can. My friend Captain Roger insists that with the warm weather the past week the surface temps are much warmer than the bottom temps. I sure hope he is right!
For open boat there is one spot left for the 14th and the 12th, 19th and 21st are all full. Please book as far in advance for open boat trips as you can.

JC

[Little Sister Charters]

Today I had out "Old Goat" and "Mattapoisett" for a flounder expedition and we had the best trip of the spring so far. We kept 19 flounder between the three of us and the fish were eating better than the past couple of weeks in spite of the overcast/east wind conditions we had most of the trip. A very good sign to say the least!

[Blackfish Doug]

Great report Jayson I love reading about the Flounder for a change.