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07-29-2010, 05:06 PM
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 Cape Cod last week  So I went to Cape Cod for three days and met up with my family. Got up at 3am to do some surfcasting and to greet the sun. Fished the Nauset inlet and hiked about five miles of beach. Not much stirring except for a few seals giving me the cross-eyed inspection. Had one striper strike but I was asleep at the wheel.  I booked at Charter out of Truro with Captain Jeff Smith. I Had chartered with him before about five years ago and really enjoyed the outing. This time I brought my two nephews along. They were itching to catch some stripers.....so was I. here is a link to Jeff's Blog.....some fantastic shots.... Outer Cape Chronicles All I have to say is that the fishing was nuts. Barely a cast went unnoticed. Jeff is a fly and light spinning charter. We fished topwater baits all day long. It was awesome.  I thought I knew about just about every bait in the northeast....But I don't. We were soon on fish just off of Provincetown and they were feasting on huge schools of halfbeaks. I was informed that they are a relative of the ballyhoo. Waves of these beaks would erupt out of the water dance across the Provincetown harbor.  We pretty much had this spectacle and the bass to ourselves. There were a couple of boats but they were fishing bait...some using wire and for whatever reason we were the only boat hooking up on every cast. The spooks and poppers we were using would barely touch down before the water around them would explode with frenzied Striper.     The day started with barely legal bass and progressed into larger and larger fish. We must have caught about sixty fish between the three of us. Mike and Marc had the power and I just culled the rats for them. We were using the some budget lures. Mike was using a Bomber pencil that had gotten it rear hook sheered off on the second fish. He used that bomber for the rest of the day....it didn't stop him from catching fish on every cast. You can see the busted pencil in the below shot.   We decided to try another spot an left the fish biting. There was a report of some fish on a school of mackerel. We were told that Bass, Blues, and some bluefin tuna were mixed in.  After motoring for forty minutes....we get to the school. No bluefin but plenty of fish. The blues were hearty.    some cough-up     We culled out some good eating fish and called it a day. This trip was spectacular. And my nephews had a blast. They were in as much awe as I was. It was just crazy to see these huge masses roaming around like hungry wolves.    |
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07-29-2010, 05:43 PM
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same thing. All within a 1/4 mile of the sand. Five years ago I saw tuna breaking within a 1/2 mile of the shore. Its a special place.....but I am ignorant to all the reasons why.... If you haven't fished the Outer Cape...you should put it on your calendar sometime. I prefer it over Montauk for surfcasting and fishing in general, but the preference is mostly based on the solitude of the environment and not on the quality of fish that I have personally taken. I really enjoy Montauk too...but it seems more like a rat race than other places I have thrown plugs. When I finally get my house fixed up...I plan to get a Kayak and launch into that Outer Cape madness. |
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