A Full Day at Sea with Eastman’s Fishing

Date:	07-1-2023
Location:	Seabrook, NH
Cost:	$87 plus $10 for pole rental
Total Time:	8 hr 30 min
Parking:	Free

A few buddies and I took a deep-sea fishing trip Eastman’s out of Seabrook, New Hampshire. We had planned a trip like this last September, but weather forced the trip to cancel.

We were up bright and early. The boat leaves at 7am and they advise you to be there about an hour before. So that meant a 4am wake up for me. A few of us met up at 5:30am to carpool to the boat dock.

We got there about 6:15am and the boat was already half full of people but our other buddy had got us a good spot port side near the stern. We dropped our coolers there and a couple of us had to rent rods, so we went and secured them, and we were ready to go.

We took off promptly at 7am. It was about a 2-hour ride out to our first line drop. Right before we got to the first stop crew from Eastman’s gave out bait buckets with small squid chopped up for us to bait the hooks.

One buddy got a fish right away. Largest one of the day for our group. It was a 5lb+ Pollock. Everyone in our group caught fish, 10 in all with 2 Haddock and 8 Pollock. We fished for about 4 or 5 hours moving around from time to time before making the 2-hour ride back to the dock.

The Eastman’s staff was fantastic! On a larger boat with a lot of people lines get caught up quite a bit and they are great at getting everyone untangled. They also helped getting some of the larger fish on the boat and are top notch at filleting fish. In fact, that is what they did the whole way back.

That evening I got home and had to try the fresh fish. I decided to keep it simple and baked the Pollock and Haddock fillet with a Ritz Cracker and butter stuffing on top. A little lemon juice and salt and pepper.