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Cod Fishing New England

Friday, October 1st, 2010

Oct 1 2010

Last week was a decent week of Cod and Haddock fishing. Codfish were landed in the mid 20 lb range as well as an amount of short fish that were released for next year. It has been a big mix of fish as some really large Cusk to over 20 lbs have been landed as well as some of the Fall Slammer Pollock that have already shown up. Haddock have all been nice size stuff that have been making some great fillets for the dinner plate. Most of the fishing has been done jigging on Tillies Bank to the east side of Stellwagon were fish have been spread out for most of the summer.

Don’t miss out on some great fishing before old man winter is knocking on your door step. Call or visit www.kaymancharters.com today

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Cod fishing Report Gloucester Ma

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

Fall Cod and Haddock is getting better each trip! Nice fish to 44 pounds were taken last week with a great number of large Markets to 15 lbs! This fall fishing is filling totes on the quick side as well as a few slammer Pollock to test the wary arms of already sore anglers!

A few Tuna were also taken on the Kayman Too. Capt Rob fished some of his herring filled edges and with all rods sporting his specially designed jigs and methods they managed to land two nice recreational Tuna for the grill!

October is filling quick so don’t hesitate on your chance to fill the freezer for the cold weather
Check for whats left for open dates at www. kaymancharters.com

Rob jigs up a nice one!

Large Cusk gave a good battle!

Scott lands a good one on a jig

Nice pockets of large doubles

Great day for Cod!

More double headers!

Large Pollock spice up the action!

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Cod fishing Report Gloucester Ma

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

Some more banner Cod trips this week as some nice pockets of 15-30 lb fish move in to the shoaler waters! Haddock are also showing in good numbers. The jig guys are getting a generous helping of them as the bait stops are filling a few totes! Fishing has been mostly drifting and jigging as the fish are spread out across certain areas of the harder bottoms.A few bait stops when the haddock start to come over the rail are with great results.

This is the time of year to fill your freezer for those winter month that are unfortunately right around the corner. Sept 24 is the only split trip left to fill don’t wait till last minute as the boats are filling quickly for the fall fishing.Go to kaymancharters.com to check for openings and book your trip today

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Tuna Fishing on Kayman Charters

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

Here is a video on a 300 pound Blue fin caught on a live Mackerel on the Lisa&Jake
The ocean seemed like a desert that day with very little life. Suddenly this Tuna flew all the way out of the water and inhaled the bait.

Check out what happens after that!

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Tuna fishing in Gloucester

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

The last few Tuna trips have resulted in some great action as fish are slamming baits from the kite as well as free swimmers! An action shot is almost impossible to get but the sight of the giant fish coming right out of the water and inhaling the bait is one not to ever forget!

The Tuna have been very active on some days, usually the breezy overcast ones, but still on the summer doldrum days.

The largest so far this year was caught by the Joel Rawson group who did a great job bringing there fish to the side of the boat. The fish weighed a little under 300 pounds! A video was made of the fight and should be up on the sight soon!

Cod fishing remains steady, a lot of action looking for the larger fish as there are a good amount of short fish mixed in. The jigs are not fishing long before they are hooked up! Most groups have had no problem catching their limit of Cod.

12 yr old Jake on a Giant Tuna

Giant Tuna on the deck of the Lisa&Jake

Doubles have been common!

Sean rides the Giant!

More August Cod doubles!

Great eating Cod!

Another great day of double headers!

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Cod and Haddock Deep sea fishing

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Capt son Jake hefts a 20lb Striper

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New England Deepsea fishing

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

July 3 2010

Never before have we seen so much Cod fish show up in July! Cod fishing now is blowing away our Spring fishery. Limits of Cod fish have been caught even by first timers this past week. The fish seem to be spread out so nice long drifts are the norm.

Cod fish have been Market sized with a 15lbers spicing up the action. These fish all come from 200 plus ft of water were the temp is still 43 deg. The fish are feeding off the bottom on crabs and urchins which makes the meat much firmer and tastier than fish on eels! All the fishing has been on jigs so there is no messy bait to use and no Dog fish!” Which by the way Marine Fisheries has announced is now fully recovered” We should all send them a letter of congratulations for a job well done!!

For those who think you have to go out when the weather is freezing and the seas are rough to catch Cod,we invite you to a great day of relaxing Cod fishing. You can even rest your favorite beverage on the gunwale while you reel em” in!!

Lots of Tuna around as well for those who would like to mix up the trip and try to land one of the hardest fighting fish in the ocean!

Split trips for Codfishing are posted at www.kaymancharters.com or give a call to capt’s cell phone at 508 577 0541

Lisa&Jake Land the first Tuna of the year!

Kayman Too crowd happy with their catch

Alan Hefts a couple of nice Cod

Ted was on a non stop tear!

Summer Cod fishing

Another grat Cod on a jig

Capt Kev hooks a nice one on a 2 oz jig with a spinning rod!

Frankie takes time out for a photo

Glenn holds a nice Lg Market Cod

Not even close for the pool fish!

Great easting Market Cod

A couple of the guys haul their catch up the docks

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New England Cod Fishing Charters

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

June 26

Cod fishing seems to be getting even better as fish are moving into the deeper water and not getting the calm lock jaw as we were seeing on a few flat sunny days last week. A great bunch of 8-15 lb Cod have been coming up on jigs and a variety of teasers. The experienced guys are still out fishing there buddies 2:1 as they move there tackle along the bottom in a more attractive way than the novice,

Tuna Trips have Landed some nice Large fish fishing live baits of of a kite when the conditions allow make for some real thrilling hook-ups. These are strong fish and put anglers to the test!

A few more split charter spots opened up on July 16. Go to Kaymancharters.com to sign up

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New England Cod fishing

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Mini Me and his great Catch!

James Nice Cod Fish

Cod fishing has gotten even better this week with fish being a ten pound plus average of nice large Market Cod.

Pollock are still in the mix but the Cod have seemed to move in! Nice white bellied fish that make excellent table fare are just a jig away! These fish are still all on jigs of various types. Eel teasers or feathers are also bringing the fish to gaff as well as butterfly jigs

Tuna have showed up in good numbers, We will be loading the gear aboard for those who want to test there muscles as all the fish being caught are reported to be quite a battle!

Check Kaymancharters.com for latest info and availability

: Pat with a set of doubles

Scotty jigs one up

Scotty's dinner for 100!

Tom's Nice Pollock!

Chucks Catch

The Ladies out fished the guys!

More of the ladies catch!

Dan's nice Cod

Hooked up again!

Cash and the fellows caught em good!

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New England Fishing charters

Monday, June 14th, 2010

My crew and I went out of Gloucester MA for an 9 hour cod trip on the Kayman Too. We had previously gone out of Wells ME, and with another boat out of Gloucester, with mixed results. And for the last 2 yrs, we had been blown off, and not gotten out at all. It did’nt look good at first, with a 15 to 20 knot wind out of the east. We headed out of the harbor at 5 am, with no coffee or breakfast due to an alarm malfunction! It was a very rough ride out, taking a little over 2 hours, pounding head on into 6-8 ft seas. Half the crew was pretty queasy at this point. That all changed as soon as we reached the fishing grounds on Stellwagon Bank. Captain Rob swung the boat around to set up the first drift, and told us to drop. Within 30 seconds of hitting the bottom with our jigs, all 6 of us hooked up! That was the start of a fantastic day of ground fishing. We were smack on the cod and pollock all morning long. And , a treat for anyone who has ever jigged for cod, we were only in about 100 fow! The boat was set up with topnotch equipment, hi-speed diawa reels loaded with 80 lb test firewire braid. It was very easy to feel the bottom, and the bites using this setup. We filled our first 30 gallon tote with fish in about 20 minutes on that first drift. The action was steady after that, with shorter drifts due to the speed the wind was pushing the boat. But the captain did a great job positioning us, keeping the fish coming. The cod were plentiful, though average size, maybe 10 to 17 or 18 lbs. The pollock too bit all day, from 5 lbers to a couple of 3 ft long 15 lbers. And, as an added treat, we caught and released 3 stripers, 2 that were around 20 to 25 lbs, and a monster 4 foot long fish that the captain estimated at +40lbs! I had never heard of catching stripers while jigging for cod before, but seeing is believing! All in all, we filled about 5 1/2 totes with fish, and since I did’nt have anything better to do on the ride back in, I counted them up as Rob filleted. We ended up with 42 cod, and 31 pollock, and each of the 6 of us brought home a 25-30 lb bag of fillets!

If any of you forum members are interested in chartering a trip for groundfish, feel free to pm me for more info, and check out the Kayman Charters website. This was by far the best trip we have taken , in 15 years our crew has been going out. Captain Rob was a joy to fish with, and even more impressive that he did it solo, with no mate on board!