Cape Cod Fishing Report

Mazzola and I fished a really cool area yesterday that featured a prominent point with huge boulders and a swiftly moving current that produced some serious rip water very close to shore.

An area with big boulders and a fast moving current is really a one-two striped bass fishing punch.  Fortunately on Cape Cod there are numerous areas I can think of that feature this deadly combination.  Yesterday's destination was one such spot.

We arrived just as the tide began to drop.  We initially fished down to the west in a calm bay on the lee side of the wind and the waves.  After 45 minutes without any signs of life we decided to make a move to the east and work the exposed side of the point.

Once we rounded the point we were greeted by standing waves, a strong current, a slight breeze and some enormous boulders.  The area just wreaked of bass so we got to casting.

This was going to be a challenging area to land any fish over 15 pounds.  There were rocks around us that were bigger than trucks.  Even out in the distance we could see white water as waves broke over barely submerged, hull eating boulders.  This was not an area I would like to venture into with the Miss Loretta.

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I was chucking my go-to mackerel colored pencil popper around the rocks when WHACK! - a bass exploded on the pencil virtually as it was crossing on top of a big boulder!  Fish on!

To prevent the fish from burying itself in the rocks I locked down the drag on my Penn 440 and horsed the striper in towards shore.  The bass did not end up being a monster which was probably a good thing based on the terrain we were fishing.

By now it was around 7PM and the current had really picked up a notch.  The wind had died but the waves in the area were between 1-3 feet.  The key to getting a strike was firing a popper way out into the standing waves and just dancing the pencil along on the surface as it tumbled down in the current.

Like usual the bass in the rip were really aggressive.  None of them were huge but they all smacked the plug with real vigor.  It only took a few more casts to hook up with another healthy looking schoolie.

By now it was obvious that Mazzola was eager to hook up with a fish so he took the initiative and waded out to a big rock and perched himself right on top of it.  He was casting a Storm Shad so being perched on the rock really helped him fire the shad out to where the bass were holding.

Because of all the boulders in the area he had a hard time distinguishing between a bass bite and rock.  Nonetheless after a few casts he was hooked up and managed to land a small bass of his own.

We continued working the area and registering hits on probably every third cast or so.  The fish continued to cruise up from the bottom and explode on my pencil popper.  If these bass were bigger I would have had one hell of a time getting them to shore amongst all the rocks.

By 8PM we were satisfied and decided to call it quits.  All in all another phenomenal Cape Cod surf casting trip.  Final tally was 7 bass between 20 and 26 inches and around 15 hits in total.

It was a gorgeous and fun night of fishing in one of the most picturesque of Cape Cod locales.  I'll be looking forward to trying this spot again during a different tide.  I am positive that at some point this season there will be some cows settling down in that near shore rip!

Click here for more information on the rips and the area fished.

I'm hearing some really positive bluefish reports from down Cape so I'll going for a little bit of a drive later today to hopefully cash in on the bite.  I'm not usually a huge fan of catching bluefish, but it's a real blast when they have squid pushed up on the shore.

Click here to learn about the best beaches to target bluefish over the next couple of days.

I'll be sure to keep you posted!

Tight lines and take care,

Ryan

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