Ryan Collins

This week I've fished from Cape Cod Bay, to the Cape Cod Canal, south through Buzzard's Bay and into the town of Falmouth, for albies and striped bass.

Today while fishing from the 12ft tin boat, my friend Jason and I caught more than 40 stripers, "almost" caught an albie, and had a 400lb ocean sunfish swim by our boat. 

It is for these reasons I love October. You just never know what you may encounter, especially when fishing the "Canal Corridor" from Sandwich south to Falmouth. 

This report will cover everything I have encountered in the canal and Upper Cape Cod region, from this past Tuesday up through this afternoon (Saturday, October 21st).

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Albies & Bass From The Beach
October 17th-18th

On the 17th I got extremely lucky and received intel from this forum post about a great false albie beach bite.

Sure enough the intel in our forum was spot-on and I enjoyed the rare opportunity to sight cast to 8+ pound albacore that were cruising in less than 2 feet of crystal clear water. 

I owe this catch to the members in our forum! Click here to watch the video from this surfcasting for false albacore trip.

The bass bite in this area was also very good, with schoolies to low 30 inchers corralling peanut bunker against jetties, boulders and the beach. It was very cool watching the stripers and albies feeding alongside one another. 

The next morning I returned to the same beach mentioned in the forum post, but the northwest wind of 20mph made fishing difficult. Nevertheless the schoolie bass were biting with a vengeance, and at around 7:30AM the albies decided to show back up.