Fishing Reports, News, And More

Tuna have been close to Gloucester, we’ve had a handful of hookups to bluefin tuna on our half day trips recently which is very exciting. The half days have been seeing lot of redfish, cusk, and some nice haddock on today’s afternoon trip. The Full Day trips with the Clipper saw some nice haddock this…

Captain Rob is here through the summer running the Yankee Clipper most days, he’s been back about a week and has plans for a couple special trips in September with cod open. Full day fishing is yielding some haddock, pollock, and a mixed bag of other species. Half Day trips are running almost every day…

Sunday 6/7 and Monday 6/8 Good haddock bites both days experienced anglers Sunday had 5-10 haddock and some limits on Monday. Wednesday 6/11 – slower but consistent presence of haddock Thursday 6/11 – full day private charter Slower on the haddock but nice size coming over the rail. Cusk and a lot of redfish mixed…

The Yankee Star recently ran our first overnight trip to Platts for the season with a private charter. Took a little while to get into the fish for the trip, but it developed into great fishing. Several anglers reached their multi day limit. Big haddock, consistent catch of many 5-7 lb fish.

Overdue for some updates and reports The last week of May was a little hot and cold fishing; most of the weekday trips were good with a few hot stops each day, the Marathon trip 5/28 was a little slow with a lot of moving around to get some quick bites. Saturday 5/30 was a…

Reports and Updates Tuesday(5/19 Full Day) Wednesday (5/20 Full day) and Thursday (5/21 Marathon) All great fishing days several limits each day and everybody was catching fish, mix of slow stops and really hot bites. Wednesday was a full boat limit for a private charter of experienced anglers. Friday (5/22 Full Day) – slower day…

Reports and updates Wednesday 5/13 – overall good fishing, some experienced anglers had limits and less experienced individuals caught some fish Friday 5/15 – No go Thursday for weather and back out. Good bites throughout the day many anglers had limits and most other anglers had 10+. Saturday 5/16 and Sunday 5/17 The Yankee Pearl…

Reports and updates. The good fishing continues! Saturday 5/9 Slow in the morning but the fish turned on to a really hot bite in the afternoon. Majority of anglers had 9-11 fish, some anglers were just shy of a limit, and a few were around 5. Sunday 5/10 Productive first stop followed by 2 quick…

Friday 5/8 – 12 hour private charter Phenomenal fishing again with a fantastic long first stop then a quick second stop. Full boat limit by just after 1200/noon. Took a few minutes for action to get started then non stop fishing. Double headers, big fish, minimal shorts, and a few reds mixed in. Hoping the…

Thursday 5/7 12 hour Marathon Phenomenal fishing “slamathon”. First stop was loaded with action for hours and the fishing was non stop some anglers had their limit within 2 hours of fishing. We made 2 more stops after for a total of 3 spots. The Yankee Clipper had 37 anglers on board with 30+ limits….

Reports from the weekend Saturday 5/2 – Good weather, the morning fishing was a little slow but we had cusk coming up. The bite really turned on into the afternoon the last few stops of the day especially the last stop had a lot of haddock action. Sunday 5/3 the morning bite was better some…

The wind forecast really improved the day before the trip so we went fishing. Swell in the morning but conditions improved throughout the day, some anglers were slow to get started as they got their sea legs. Good bite throughout the morning until the tide changed and it slowed down a bit, a good amount…