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Ryan Collins This January I’ve been combing estuaries in search of the elusive Cape Cod holdover striped bass. So I have made two trips, and have been fortunate to catch several holdover bass up to 20 pounds. My most productive trip so far occurred the night of January 13th, the day after the first My …
Yesterday I was shocked to be catching monster bluefish during November! Big blues are still around if you know where to look, and are willing to travel. Yesterday actually began with micro-schoolies jumping and chasing bait in the early morning sunlight.
After catching a few micros I noticed a large flock of birds working hard over what appeared to be some very large bluefish. I quickly reeled in my line and began to carefully hustle down the jetty rocks.
If you follow the Canal Today thread in our forum, then you’ll see folks are still catching schoolies, with the occasional keeper mixed in.
There have also been scattered reports of larger bass up to 30 pounds being seen and caught in the canal area over the past week.
Without a doubt, large stripers have become much more scarce and difficult to find all throughout Cape Cod and the Islands. However you still have a chance of hooking into a fish with some shoulders.
The striper fishing for me the past 72 hours has been challenging.
There have been some good pushes of fish through parts of the Cape (we’ll talk about that later) but for me the fishing has been very hit and miss.
On Thursday night I had this decent trip jigging on Cape with 8 bass up to 30 inches. On Friday and Saturday I decided to head off Cape and explore Plymouth Bay via kayak.
Last night I spent the hours of 7pm-10pm bouncing Al Gag’s Whip-It-Fish along the bottom of an inlet.
In this particular area, striped bass often “pave” the bottom, holding in shallow depressions waiting for a meal to be swept by.
A 1.5 ounce Whip-It-Fish (or other jig style lure) is the perfect weight for inlets like this one, in which the bottom is only around 10 feet deep.
Before I dive into this report, I would like to mention that not all marinas allow fishing from their docks.
I recommend asking your local harbormaster if fishing is allowed, before you step foot onto the docks, especially at night.
However, if you can find a lighted marina where it is OK to fish (and if that marina is chock full of bait) you can do quite well during the month of October.
Last week during the howling NE winds, I had the opportunity to fish a lighted dock where stripers of 25+ pounds sometimes congregate.
...Ryan Collins Back during the weekend of October 9th, I had the pleasure of joining a group of My Fishing Cape Codders for a surfcasting trip on Martha’s Vineyard. The weather was pretty challenging the first day and night, but on my second day the skies cleared up and the sun shone through. My Fishing Cape …
Ryan Collins Early yesterday morning, while fishing a rock ledge covered with eel grass, I hooked and landed my first striper for the MFCC Derby. The fish was caught in one of the coolest spots my cousin Kevin (host of the podcast) and I have ever fished for striped bass. I never would of caught the fish …
Ryan Collins I have just recently discovered the effectiveness of the needlefish when surfcasting Cape Cod at night for striped bass. Of course I knew all along how effective needlefish can be. For example my friend Danya Mahota even blogged about needlefish last year here on MFCC. Yet this season I have been casting needlefish with more …
Ryan CollinsLast weekend I jigged an inlet on Cape Cod which has treated me very well over the years, especially during October. During this tip I fishing at around 8:00am. I was fortunate to catch bass up to 37 inches using 1.5 ounce Al Gag’s Whip-It Fish. Oftentimes the largest bass in an inlet will hug tight …
Ryan Collins Some of the biggest bluefish of the entire season have showed up the past few days here on Cape Cod. These are “gator” bluefish over the 10 pound mark with some specimens pushing 15+ pounds. In this post I would like to share with you another drone surfcasting video filmed by my friend Zach …
Ryan Collins The much talked about “fall run” is certainly underway here on Cape Cod. Yesterday I was fortunate to encounter stellar surfcasting despite very windy, and very rough conditions. I had an entire crew of great people with me yesterday including my friend Dave Steeves from the Goose Hummock Shop in Orleans, and my drone-flying friend …
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