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Yankee Star 9/11-9/12 Overnight to Platts Overall great trip, slow night bite this round with loads of squid and cusk coming up. Sunrise and a tide change turned on the fish. Weather was great and the crew drift fished during all the daylight fishing. Great mix of pollock, haddock, and some cusk. Sharks were around,…

Reports and Updates Cod is open through the end of October and the Yankee Clipper has been finding some, more cod on the Marathons then Full Days so far. Trips have been yielding a good mixed bag of fish pollock are showing up in better numbers. The pollock fishing has been great on a couple…

Capt Rob took some private charters out to his longer range fishing grounds and the pollock bite was great. Depths 200-400ft. Limited capacity 28 anglers – $135 a seat. The pollock bite was phenomenal on the overnight to Platts – next trip August 31 into September 1st (cod open for the second day). We are…

Overnight Trip Report – Platts on the Yankee Star August 10/11 Fantastic fishing this trip, we had a good night bite. Mixed bag of haddock, pollock, cusk, and big squid for an hour or so. The sun came up with a tide change and we started drifting for the rest of the trip. Daylight fishing…

Customers and crew have been enjoying great weather the last week or so. Full day trips have been good. The Yankee Clipper is doing a great job avoiding the dogfish; we get surprised on the occasional stop, but a lot of trips are very low numbers on the dogfish (1-20 for a boat full of…

Good July fishing overall as we wrap the month up. Recently good haddock and pollock bites as we finish the month on the full day trips – cusk and plenty of redfish mixed in. Pics are from the week and last weekend, good pollock bite reported today – another update coming this weekend. Half day…

OVERNIGHT TRIPS – 2026 New to the schedule August 10-11 August 31- September 1 Weekends September 11-12 October 9-10 We got some overnight fishing accomplished earlier this season with great fishing results and have since been unlucky with the weather for a handful of overnight trips. Once the September/October weekend trips fill up we will…

Nice haddock, some pollock mixed in, cusk and redfish on the marathon this week and recent full day trips on the Yankee Clipper. The dogfish have been hot and cold. One trip in the past few days we only caught literally a couple and other trips they are a little more aggressive. Overall good summer…

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.