Ms. Jeanette and I hosted the "John Mansur, Danny Weldon Charter" on India's first offshore trip of the 2010 season yesterday. The weather as perfect as I've ever seen the first week of May. "Indi Marie" ran flawlessly thanks to the special care and skill little Dennis took reviewing all our mechanical systems. And the spring cod fishing was excellent, especially considering we had to find the schools of the new arriving stocks. By the 3rd stop of the day we were right on them and our illustrious crew caught white bellied cod steadily throughout the day. As always we had a really fun time with this fine crew. It's great to have guests that really appreciate the effort my illutrious crew puts in. John won the pool with our largest cod of the year so far a fourteen pounder, hard to believe but I pretty sure Phil Streeter was high hook, his brother Paul is shown w/ a 10 plus pounder in the picture with John. Dan "Woody "Yankabitch (top of post) led the pool for a while with a his nice 8 pounder.
We also caught a nice slew of redfish "Ocean Perch" and even with all those spines we didn't require the services of "Doc Mulligan" to pull any hooks or spines. I'm really thrilled to have India sound and ready for the new season, and I again want to thank everyone that contributed so much to get her ready. We are now available for charter every day, I believe Keith and I still have room for two anglers on next Friday May 14th's 10 hour offshore trip. Ensign Ed's number is 207 339-9531. Hopefully we will continue to enjoy fair weather. The cod and haddock are here, and the stripers aren't far behind, the first schoolies were landed at York River this week.
Captain Whit and I are still very busy putting the finishing touches on the "Gath IV", our topside paintwork is complete and she's looking fine, now on to the house and interior decks. There is always a slew of paperwork and safety items to prepare for her annual Coast Guard inspection. Whit's busy with that, she's scheduled to launch the week of May 17th so if you "like Cousin Bob" missed out on a day at the yard painting India, you still have a chance to enjoy passing a brush over the new Gath IV. Till next week..Captain Satch
