Summer 2019 Recreational Food Fishery (29 Photos)

The Summer Recreational Groundfish Fishery 2019 will follow a schedule similar to the last minute plan announced last year for the 2018 fishery. This year the fishery will be open Saturday, Sunday & Monday each week beginning June 29th and ending September 2nd (Canada Day long weekend to Labor Day long weekend.) There will be another week at the end of September for the Fall Fishery.

The first step for French and I after servicing his boat and outboards was to get it in the water and secured at his berth at the St. Phillip's marina. Earlier this year the Harbor Authority replaced all the floats & anchor chains so we had to reinstall Mark's underwater pulley and tie off rope. It was a beautiful evening so when we were finished we took a spin down the shore as far as Portugal Cove.

A couple weeks later French and I had schedules that finally lined up so we hit the wharf Saturday morning to try for a few fish.

The weather was absolutely beautiful, clear sunny skies and there was pretty well zero wind, needless to say the marina was simply buzzing with activity. People were launching and/or hauling out boats all day long.

It's not often that we manage to get out on Conception Bay under such beautiful conditions. We barely drifted and our lines stayed straight down the whole morning.

Our Penn Fathom 60LW reels are holding up very well, they are still as smooth as the day we bought them at Outdoor Pros in Mount Pearl two years ago. French and I are both still very pleased with their performance and speed of line recovery.

It didn't take long before we caught our quota so we cleaned up and headed back to the wharf in St. Phillip's to fillet our catch.

As usual Mark was on fillet duty while I trimmed and skinned the catch.