Every day for the past couple of weeks I have heard reports of peanut bunker. It seems there are more peanut bunker around this year than in the past couple of seasons - would you agree?
Albies, schoolies and even some very large striped bass have been having a field day boiling and busting on these baby menhaden from Nantucket Sound to the Canal and beyond.
In some instances the topwater action has been terrific!
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"The Fall Run"
I feel that the "Fall Run" is definitely underway. This is perfect timing because tomorrow morning I will begin my 27 mile hike from Nauset Inlet to Race Point. I would love to encounter some bass blitzes along the way.
I will have my rod and reel with me during this weekend's trek, and I will keep you posted with updates here on MFCC, as well as on our Facebook page and Instagram account.
In the meantime I want to share with you some video footage of an insane peanut bunker bass blitz I experienced last week during a trip on my boat with MFCC member Ed Wagner, his son Dan and friend Joe from the Cape Cod Salties.
During this trip we were fortunate to catch well over a dozen striped bass up to 25 pounds all on plugs. I even filmed a few clips of bass swimming beneath the boat.
MFCC members can click the orange buttons below for 3 HD Photos taken during this trip and 2 Google Earth images of the areas fished.
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An additional 3 HD photos
taken during this trip
2 Google Earth images
of the areas fished
What do you think? Let me know by commenting below.
Mark Sullivan, I couldn’t agree more about Newcomb Hollow. My favorite Cape Cod beach. I haven’t fished it for a few years but spent many hours swimming and just sitting with my family there.
Ryan, you must have completed your trek by now. You had a nice weekend for it. I hope you caught fish.
I could not of asked for better weather! I think I probably would have frozen to death had I attempted the trek right now, in this NE wind.
I didn’t catch a single fish during that 27 mile jaunt, but I was lucky to hit the beach again yesterday morning after the wind change and caught some good ones > https://myfishingcapecod.com/never-give-up/
Coming up Monday to Eastham so really scout out the back beach. Newcomb Hollow is a favorite of mine.
I really enjoyed Newcomb Hollow when I walked through there this past weekend. I saw lots of peanut bunker between Marconi and Newcomb but there were no bass on them (at least when I was walking through there).
Nice video, but somebody should teach those guys how
to release a fish.
Yes they could of been released in a gentler fashion, that is for sure.
Always willing to learn. We do the standard resuscition for fish that seem to be in trouble. Maybe I watch too many fishing shows but have adopted their head first reentry for fish in good shape. Am I wrong?
No I don’t think you are wrong Ed. I have released many fish in the same fashion as you did in the video and I think they went on to live healthy lives. Tunas especially always seem to be released in that fashion.
I guess the moral of the story is we could always do a better job with unhooking and releasing fish (myself included), and that it’s always good to keep that in mind while we’re out there.
For example yesterday morning I know for sure that one of the schoolies I caught and released did not survive. I was using Treble hooks and one of the hooks got jammed in the fish’s gills. Blood all over the beach…not good, but what can ya do?
Well I switched to a pencil popper with a single tail hook, caught 1 more bass and decided that I had my fill. I left the beach feeling that I did alright, and did not “binge fish” so to speak.
Kudos to you guys for releasing the fish in the first place! Most folks who I take fishing would have kept those bass without thinking twice.