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Continued from the post Cape Cod Surfcasting Report | Bass on the Rocks The bass’ initial run was impressive and there was no doubt in my mind that the fish was all of 25 pounds. 15 hours of patience had paid off. Now all I needed to do was keep the bass away from obstructions, tire …
According to geologists, Cape Cod’s beaches were formed some 15,000 to 20,000 years ago. Who knows how many incredible blitzes have occurred along the Cape’s shoreline since then. I thought about this the other night as I walked past rocks and boulders deposited by receding glaciers. How many huge stripers have fed among these rocks over …
The sky over Wellfleet was on fire. Streaks of orange shot up from the land and pierced the late-summer night sky. A deep, dark ball of orange was growing on the horizon. As it grew the low lying clouds above it turned orange as well, until that entire section of sky was lit up like …
Continued from the post An Epic Night in the Surf | Cape Cod Shore Fishing Report The bass was not happy when I set the hook. He shot into the air and watched his white belly twist and turn in the moonlight, before he fell back down into the water. The serene and perfectly quiet …
Earlier in the week my Mom, Dad and I caught some nice striped bass fishing live eels from my boat. That’s great and all, but if you are like me, nothing beats catching a big striper from the beach. To catch a nice striper from shore was my goal late last night, as I walked out …
Continued from the post Live Eel Shore Fishing Report | August 22 My heart was officially pounding now. I had not expected to find good size bass on this trip. Of course I hoped I would, as always. Yet the odds are against you when fishing from the beach. I was incredibly excited. I was fishing …
“Years ago I would get spooled fishing that beach” said the man behind the counter at the bait shop. “We would catch them, but every once in a while we would hook one that we could not stop.” Just hearing those words got me excited. I had spent the past 48 hours prepping tackle and …
Continued from the post Cape Cod Shark Fishing Report | August 13-14 My heart beat had significantly increased since I leaped from my chair. Could it really be this easy, this simple? I had only been on the beach for 20 minutes, and had just put baits in the water. Yet I was in the …
I stepped foot onto the sand of outer Cape Cod and was greeted by pitch black darkness, a sky full of stars and a wild bunny rabbit. A howling south west breeze whipped over the mounds of sand, through the eel grass and out over the Atlantic. I stood there for a moment breathing it …
Continued from the post A Night on the National Seashore | July 3 Cape Cod Surf Fishing Report About 50 feet out my eel was stopped dead in its tracks by the relentless southwest wind. A moment after the eel plopped into the water, the current engulfed it and pushed it towards the open Atlantic. Several …
I can sense that I am once again starting to turn into a nocturnal creature. The past couple of nights I have been up all night, going to bed when the rest of Cape Cod is just waking up. It’s amazing the influence a little fish can have on your lifestyle. Yet I love this …
Before I jump into this report, I want to share with you a quick tip for fishing the back waters of estuaries with live eels. Many of the bass you will encounter will be on the smaller end of the spectrum. To give yourself a chance of hooking these small bass, while still also enticing …
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