When I went to an allday cod trip for the first time, I had a hard time reeling in fish. I decided to buy a power handle for my Penn 555GS. After installing the new handle, reeling became much easier. I set the reel to Ugly Stik BWB 1140 with a clump. I also got a 14 oz LavJig this time.
Yankee Clipper left the dock at 5 and we started fishing a little after 7. I kept a spot at port side near bow. I started with a jig and a fly. At the first cast, I got a hit soon. It seemed decent but what showed up was a dogfish. Although there were some cod on board, dog were too many. After a few resets, we still had some dog. When a fisherman pulled a dog, the rig tangled with my main line and teeth of the dog cut my braided line. I grabbed the end of line so I tied the line and started fishing again. However, there was another weak point. When I jigged a few times, the main line broke again. My rig was recovered because it was tangled with another rig but I gave up main line of 50 YD or so.
After I got a few small keeper cod, the captain moved to deeper water. More of the main line went out from the spool. When the jig reached the bottom, a fish hit. Good one! It was a decent size pollock. Immediately after that, I got another hit at the falling near the bottom. It was even better size of pollock. A fisherman next to me got double. School was there. I got another hit at the bottom. This one didn’t swim a lot. A bait fisherman asked surprisingly “Got another big pollock?” I replied it was like a cusk. What I reeled in was not a pollock this time but a cusk.
I found pollock hit on a falling jig. I tried squidding, reeled 15 turns and dropped to the bottom. I got another hit. When I said it was another pollock, a fisher man said might be a side-hooked dog. What I found after reeling was a nice pollock. It didn’t fit in my 50 QT cooler box. I got a coffee bag and put two big pollock in it.
After noontime, I had steady catch of cod. When I thought I got a good one, it was a side-hooked dog. The jig fisherman next to me limited out for cod. I got 7 cod at that time and wondered if I switched to bait. However, there weren’t many haddock. I kept using a jig.
In the meantime, wind stopped completely and the boat was dragged by the current. My jig caught the anchor rope. The captain decided to pull the anchor and switch to the drifting. There was little time left at that time and I fished with bait for 15 minute until the end of the fishing.
I got 8 cod, 3 pollock, and 1 cusk. Pollock were all big, 8, 10 and 13.5 lb. Although cod were not so big, they were delicious. It was very good trip and I enjoyed it!
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