It's still super early in the season to be fishing for stripers. The first migratory schoolie striped bass of the year probably won't show up for another three weeks.
Nevertheless, yesterday afternoon I felt that familiar "itch" to head out and give striper fishing a try regardless of the fact that it's honestly too early to be fishing for them.
With that said, there are some stripers here on Cape Cod that spent the winter holding over in the estuaries. So far I've caught holdover stripers this spring on 50% of my trips, with my two most successful outings occurring on March 16th and April 2nd.
Holdover stripers are the fish I would be going after yesterday when I headed to Wareham, a town located just off Cape along the shoreline of Buzzard's Bay.
Wareham is an interesting place. Some extremely productive water is surrounded by intense development, and I often daydream about how the shoreline and rivers of Wareham looked like hundreds of years ago.
Despite all the development, the fishing in Wareham is still really good. Yesterday the river herring were running in abundance at the Agawam River Herring Run.
This run is located next to the Elks Lodge, and cuts beneath a highway. It's suffered from water quality issues, but despite all that the area is still abundant with life.
The Agawam River herring run is located right next to the Elks Lodge in Wareham.
I pulled into the herring run a little before 5pm and I was shocked by what I saw. Straight ahead in the trees was the greatest concentration of ospreys I have ever seen! There must have been seven or eight of them sitting in a tree above the run.
