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Fall Fishing is heating up!

admin — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:45:57 +0000

Fall Pollock fishing is in full swing! This year they have been huge! Top fish today was 35 pounds and many 25-30 pounders! These fish are hanging on deep water peaks and are getting hungrier every day as more and more fish gather for their annual spawn fest. Jigging has been the way to go and single or combination seems to do the trick with the right presentation. Plenty of weekday openings don’t miss out on this great fishing! Spring weekends as well as the lodge are filling fast make sure you get your spot! Visit Kayman Charters.com or give us a call!

Few spots on a shared trip this Friday Nov 18 http://www.kaymancharters.com/charter-reservations.htm

Here is the boats fish finder with the fish stacked 30 ft off the bottom!

Large Pollock is what that stack off fish consisist of!

Double headers are common for those who have the strenth left!

Some Large are filling totes quickly!

Tha Kayman Too is also on the meat!

Giant Blue fin Tuna on Lisa&Jake!!

admin — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:26:16 +0000

As the end to our 2011 Cod season nears we are already on Pollock and saddened by the lack of Cod to end the season that has been in all the past years lock and load! The boats have been on good schools of Pollock the past week that typically group up this time of year and make for some great large fish angling! Pollock fishing typically has gotten better as the weather cools right into mid December! Haddock have also been accessible in most spots to add to the catch.
Large Tuna were caught last week! another 800 pound Blue fin was landed by a wedding party from Canada! These folks own a fly in lodge in central Canada that fish for walleye. Well as the boredom loomed of Tuna fishing the seas sickness settled in with the post storm swells but all was about to change!. Then it happened, the 130 Shimano light up as it almost ran out of the Dacron backing until the fish came to a holt. The weary anglers had to forget the walleye skills and learn Big Game fishing Gloucester style. A few quick lessons on bent but swivel rod holder fishing and these folks were good to go!
The battle lasted 90 minutes. It was 90 minutes of 8-10 minute shifts on the rod. Each angler took a turn, saesickness left some and contiued in others, but they kept the rod bent! When the rod was not bent the captain seemed to just yell REEL over and over until he was horse and couldn’t yell any more! The fish was up and down for the last 20 minutes of the fight, the captain fought the building sea to keep the boat out of the fishes way. Before the anglers knew what was happening the mammoth fish surfaced and the harpoon was launched into the fish. It was pissed! The fish screamed out 100 ft of what was now 70 lbs of drag on thr rod and a harpoon rope in its back. With good work of the Captain and Mate the fish was tail roped and the Canadian folks have some great stories and picture to tell at the wedding!
Kayman Charters will be opening their lodge in March of 2012! and is now taking reservations for March 2012. Come check out this awesome place to stay while visiting Gloucester!
Friday November 4 is a split trip visit kaymancharters.com to sign up!

The fine folks from Aikens Lake lodge display their Giant!

Trying to keep rice paper on the fish in the Gale was a tough task!

Some nice Pollock come aboard!

Dollar Bill slams a nice one!

The Shimano 130’s are waiting for the next Giant!

Gloucester Cod and Haddock fishing charters

admin — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:00:02 +0000

Cod fishing has remained strong as ever! Limits of nice white bellied fish are brought to gaff every trip this past week! Some days a mix of Haddock are also spicing up the boxes. The Haddock we have been getting are all Large fish that bring eye openers to anglers who state time again “that is the largest Haddock I have ever seen!” There seems to be plenty of fish going forward as there are herring and Mackerel holding tough on a lot of the bottom outside Gloucester. The fish are all roaming following the bait. All spots are producing good quality fish. Next Shared trip is July3 one spot left and Fri July 8 see kaymancharters.com for reservations

Gloucester Fishing Charters

admin — Tue, 31 May 2011 16:48:00 +0000

Cod and Haddock remain strong! Larger fish are starting to move in as the water warms. Limits of Large Cod was granted to a few groups this week as fish from 11- 25 pounds bent rods one after another! Double 15 pounders wore out the groups some days as the crew picked up the slack to limit out before heading west to Gloucester. Jigging and the teaser of your choice gets the fish to bite pink always works but a few secret colors did the trick on some days! June 6 we are opening the second boat for a split trip due to high demand there are 4 more spots as of this report. go to www.kaymancharters.com to sign up!~

Mate Dave and Benny

Double Header Pollock and Cod

Tony The Tiger lands another

Sean weights in his fish!

Cod fishing News Letter

admin — Tue, 10 May 2011 16:18:04 +0000

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Haddock Fishing Charters

admin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:29:09 +0000

The boats did get out for a few days despite the rough weather. Haddock were caught by all as bait rigs tried to stay on the bottom with the fullest moon tides we have had in years! Anglers did a great job moving around the boat to avoid tangles as the tide screamed like a raging river. It took a great deal of constant rod tending to keep the baits on the bottom. The Haddock were not fast and furious like last year yet. We will be on the other side of the moon these coming up days and hopefully the weather will let us look around to find some bigger piles of Haddock.

It was great getting out and enjoying the day with some great people as the caught some great tasting fish! The Haddocks were all nice firm white meat that folks have called to say how delicious it was! This is real cold water fish as the surface water temp is still in the thirty’s. Here are a few photos of some of the anglers with their catch.

Gerson Colon has his dinner!

Stuart Adams with his nice Haddock!

Dave displays a double Haddock!

Kim catches the largest Haddock!

Rich gets some nice Haddock

Stellwagon Bank Tuna

admin — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:38:28 +0000

Mike Shnider was on a trip this Fall on the Kayman Too with Capt. Rob when Tuna appeard on his finder. Capt Rob deployed a bait and this was the end result!

Thanks for the picture Mike!

Blue-fin Tuna Endangered Species??

admin — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:59:23 +0000

As the Lisa&Jake and the Kayman Too get some love in dry dock I attended a “listing session” on Making Bluefin Tuna an endangered species. Thats right! for anyone who has a boat or fished on our boats the countless days of seeing Tuna busting from right outside the harbor to some of our spots 30 miles offshore.

This was petitioned by folks in Arizona to make Blue-fin endangered. It was presented to NOAA who did not see any reason that Blue-fin Tuna should not be put on the endangered list.

Shame on them for using old data that was catch data only and basically for commercial size fish! This cost you your tax dollars for five meetings houses plane fares and many administrative hours, to figure out that they don’t know what they are talking about.

It was made quite clear by approximately 100 fisherman and spotter pilots that there are so many juvenile and large Tuna of all different year classes on feeding days you can walk on them from Canadian waters down to the Jersey coast!

It was great to see a good turn out in Boston and I hope Maine goes the same way.

What will happen next;

After the Public Comment NOAA will evaluate the data and make a ruling by May 24th.

If all the comments were ignored and these meetings were a government parse and this Arizona group is tied into Obamas appointed environmentalist Dr Jane Lavabitch on May 24th they will rule Blue-fin Tuna an endangered species!

What does that mean?

Endangered species means NO TAKE or attempt to take. Yes no fishing for yellow fin or albacore swords ect…you might catch a Blue- fin Tuna!

Keep an eye on the actions of Jane Lavabitch and write any letter you can to stop here wasting your tax dollars to support these do gooders and put thousands of people out of work and take away a great public resources!

Pollock and Giant Tuna

admin — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:17:13 +0000

The Pollock fishing remained hot as ever! We put as much as the group wanted around 900 lbs that turns into around 300 lbs of fillet for the group. We then moved on to try for some Giants.

The baits were deployed and 20 minutes later we were on! The boys fought the fish for 40 minutes and landed a 389 lb Blue-fin!
After returning to the anchor with the fish still bleeding on the side of the boat a new bait was placed in the same spot and bamm! We were on again!
Unfortunatly the hook got pulled on this one the fish was lost.

Thank to Dennis Maher group from Ma for a great job!

Dennis hefts a nice Pollock

389 lb Bluefin

Pollock Fishing is RED HOT

admin — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:35:09 +0000

As the Cod has come to a close in the Gulf of Maine, we turn our targets to the very aggressive Pollock. Everyone has caught a Pollock or two but unless you have experienced Fall Pollock fishing on the Kayman you haven’t been!

The Pollock gather up into giant schools this time of the year to spawn. It is not uncommon to see them up to 50ft thick, {the school we were on the other day was about 30ft thick.}

These fish are starving because when in the spawn they don’t actively target food. When a jig or anything that moves it put in front of them they inhale it !

These are the strongest fighting fish for their size!

We rig the leaders with 200lb test line to aviod breaking the jigs and teasers apart, even 100lb test will break with two of these aggressive fish fighting each other!

Almost every drop all 6 anglers will come up with doubles. This fills the boat quickly as over 1000lbs of fish can be put on in no time at all!