Hi there groundfishing fans...
On Memorial Day my brother & I have a tradition that we go haddock/pollock/cod (when allowable) fishing up north. So this year was no different. This year our crew was my brother Ed,my nephew Adam, my niece Leslie, my niece Lisa & her boyfriend Norman & of course myself.
First off you couldn't ask for a more beautiful day to be out 27+ miles off the coast of New Hampshire, waves were at best 2 footers, although a tad bit windy/chilly.
First drop Ed gets a just over keeper size pollock while the rest of the crew gets keeper haddock, (all but me, I just get "short" haddock.) This continued on for most of the day & I start wondering if I am now soon becoming "Short Haddock Johnny"?
Things started to change for the better, we all start catching keeper haddock, some nice cusk of various sizes. Ed then catches a nice mackerel, which then the mate Todd chops up for us to use for bait.
So now the "gears" inside Johnny205's head starts turning... I drop the macks down, give it a few twitches & BAM!!! a real solid hit a few head shakes and this fish just keeps heading for the bottom. Now I start thinking could this be the "elusive" Atlantic Halibut that I've been after for so many years?
Unfortunately that wasn't going to be the tale I wanted to finally tell for all these years.
But here is what gave me the smackdown.
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There was PLENTY of these caught today all to be set free. The lady behind me to my left was jigging and had caught several this size and one guesstimated at 27lbs which she had her co-angler take some pic's of.
End result, all of the crew got our limits of haddock, only the 1 pollock caught on the YellowBird today was Ed's, Adam won the pool with a big a$$ cusk which we didn't get a pic of.
And as an added bonus the was a whale breaching not far from the boat, however I didn't get a chance to see it.
Overall a great day on the water for all to be had.
Johnny205.
Haddock Fishing Memorial Day on the YellowBird 2019
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Hi there groundfishing fans...
On Memorial Day my brother & I have a tradition that we go haddock/pollock/cod (when allowable) fishing up north. So this year was no different. This year our crew was my brother Ed,my nephew Adam, my niece Leslie, my niece Lisa & her boyfriend Norman & of course myself.
First off you couldn't ask for a more beautiful day to be out 27+ miles off the coast of New Hampshire, waves were at best 2 footers, although a tad bit windy/chilly.
First drop Ed gets a just over keeper size pollock while the rest of the crew gets keeper haddock, (all but me, I just get "short" haddock.) This continued on for most of the day & I start wondering if I am now soon becoming "Short Haddock Johnny"?
Things started to change for the better, we all start catching keeper haddock, some nice cusk of various sizes. Ed then catches a nice mackerel, which then the mate Todd chops up for us to use for bait.
So now the "gears" inside Johnny205's head starts turning... I drop the macks down, give it a few twitches & BAM!!! a real solid hit a few head shakes and this fish just keeps heading for the bottom. Now I start thinking could this be the "elusive" Atlantic Halibut that I've been after for so many years?
Unfortunately that wasn't going to be the tale I wanted to finally tell for all these years.
But here is what gave me the smackdown.
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There was PLENTY of these caught today all to be set free. The lady behind me to my left was jigging and had caught several this size and one guesstimated at 27lbs which she had her co-angler take some pic's of.
End result, all of the crew got our limits of haddock, only the 1 pollock caught on the YellowBird today was Ed's, Adam won the pool with a big a$$ cusk which we didn't get a pic of.
And as an added bonus the was a whale breaching not far from the boat, however I didn't get a chance to see it.
Overall a great day on the water for all to be had.
Johnny205.
johnny great report,, thanks for the pm,, yes i did miss your report,,,, stay well catch them up,,,,[COLOR=rgb(26, 188, 156)] ><))):>
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Hi there groundfishing fans...
On Memorial Day my brother & I have a tradition that we go haddock/pollock/cod (when allowable) fishing up north. So this year was no different. This year our crew was my brother Ed,my nephew Adam, my niece Leslie, my niece Lisa & her boyfriend Norman & of course myself.
First off you couldn't ask for a more beautiful day to be out 27+ miles off the coast of New Hampshire, waves were at best 2 footers, although a tad bit windy/chilly.
First drop Ed gets a just over keeper size pollock while the rest of the crew gets keeper haddock, (all but me, I just get "short" haddock.) This continued on for most of the day & I start wondering if I am now soon becoming "Short Haddock Johnny"?
Things started to change for the better, we all start catching keeper haddock, some nice cusk of various sizes. Ed then catches a nice mackerel, which then the mate Todd chops up for us to use for bait.
So now the "gears" inside Johnny205's head starts turning... I drop the macks down, give it a few twitches & BAM!!! a real solid hit a few head shakes and this fish just keeps heading for the bottom. Now I start thinking could this be the "elusive" Atlantic Halibut that I've been after for so many years?
Unfortunately that wasn't going to be the tale I wanted to finally tell for all these years.
But here is what gave me the smackdown.
[ATTACH type="full" alt="DSCF2007.JPG"]6245[/ATTACH]
There was PLENTY of these caught today all to be set free. The lady behind me to my left was jigging and had caught several this size and one guesstimated at 27lbs which she had her co-angler take some pic's of.
End result, all of the crew got our limits of haddock, only the 1 pollock caught on the YellowBird today was Ed's, Adam won the pool with a big a$$ cusk which we didn't get a pic of.
And as an added bonus the was a whale breaching not far from the boat, however I didn't get a chance to see it.
Overall a great day on the water for all to be had.
Johnny205.
johnny great report,, thanks for the pm,, yes i did miss your report,,,, stay well catch them up,,,,[COLOR=rgb(26, 188, 156)] ><))):>
><))):>[/COLOR]
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