When is the best time for a pollock trip?

[PAMonger]

I live in PA and I'm looking for something next fall. It's either pollock fishing in NE or tilefish and deep-dropping in VA beach in October/November. Please tell me the pollock fishing is better.

[FullStrikeAngler]

Pollack fishing has been decent the entire season here in the GOM. However, right now the recent reports from Eastmans out of Seabrook NH are pretty amazing.

[On The Edge]

I am hearing the same thing George. Pollock fishing right now is stupid, and the haddock is still pretty good to.

[gmoney]

if you're looking to come groundfishing, spring is the time to do it. mid april through the end of may is off the wall for a mized bag of groundfish. cod, haddock, pollack, and the occasional wolfie.

[Junior11]

Gmoney, up until this point, you would be right.

As George has said, the cod regs are looking pretty dicey (at best) for the spring. Also you aren't allowed to keep wolf fish anymore ever.

The Pollock fishing is better now, than it is in the spring, especially if you are basically targeting purely pollock.

[ironskippy]

PA Monger - Spring or fall works great. A trip planned for early May on Stelwaggen
can't be a loser . If the cod rules get draconian, there will be a whole bunch of charter boats looking for customers like you!!

[Pete Santini]

PA Monger - Spring or fall works great. A trip planned for early May on Stelwaggen
can't be a loser . If the cod rules get draconian, there will be a whole bunch of charter boats looking for customers like you!!

Well said John and lets not forget the lowly cusk that is certainly going to be more and more sought after If and when the new cod regs get imposed PAmonger cusk are great for chowder and you can fry like cod They are just alittle slippery to filet

[FullStrikeAngler]

Well said John and lets not forget the lowly cusk that is certainly going to be more and more sought after If and when the new cod regs get imposed PAmonger cusk are great for chowder and you can fry like cod They are just alittle slippery to filet

The was a meeting today at the GMRI building in Portland to start work on a "conservation" plan (read limits on fisherman) for cusk. The way it is going we will be lucky if we can fish for sculpin and dogs in 2012....oops...scratch dogs as they are "endangered".

[bobbysea]

How can doggies be "endangered"? 4 years ago in the Race(Long Island Sound)in the late spring there were literaly hundreds on the surface. You could'nt troll with out dinging'em with your wheels. They're everywhere you fish.