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On the other hand, the bass fishing sounds pretty enticing too. Several guides told me that the fly fishing with squid flies in the rips in Chatham, and around the Vineyard has been excellent. The night fishing with floating lines and sand eel patterns sounds really fun. In short, there are just a host of great options for fly fishermen looking to get tight to some fish around the Cape this weekend, whether you're shorebound, or burning gas in pursuit of tuna. Thanks for all the great reports, they are really helpful. Going forward, drop me line if you are fly fishing along the South side of the Cape -- that's where I need sources at the moment! Thorne Sparkman, Publisher
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Truthfully, these are the types of decisions you love to have. The bluefin tuna have now shown up in catchable numbers from Cape Cod bay, down past Chatham, out to the east from Nantucket, and South of the Vineyard, so they pretty much have us surrounded as far as I can tell. I see land in the background on some of these pictures also, so the fish are not far away. For many saltwater fly fishermen, this means we can officially become obsessed with trying to catch Charlie now.
Finally, while the sky looks a little cloudy today, the flats fishing has been very productive too, not only from places like Chatham and the Vineyard, but from related locations like Block Island, and the Elizabeths.
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Buzzards Bay
No fly fishing reports for this region this week.
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Falmouth & the Elizabeths
While we have not landed all of the Bluefin Tuna we have hooked in the last week, we have landed a few. Today we landed a fish around 90 lbs. on the fly rod. We decided to do everything we could to get the fish back alive. I went with heavy leader and asked the anglers to put the hurt lock on the fish. We broke off the first fish we hooked in around 90 seconds (oooops). We brought the second fish to the boat in just under 40 minutes. We hooked up the fish with a large circle hook fly and it was easy to take out of the corner of |
Joe LeClair of North Eastern Anglers reports:
the fishes mouth, and we released the fish boatside. During the long 1 hour and 45 minute drive back to the dock we talked about the technique and I am looking forward to doing as much catch & release tuna fishing as we can this summer !
The Cape Cod CanalNo fly fishing reports for this region this week. |
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Martha's Vineyard
6.28.07: SW winds, light boat traffic, and tons of terrified squid added up to great bass fishing this past week on the Vineyard. Things are pretty good when way more keeper bass than bluefish come over the rail in the course of any given day. We’ve got quality and quantity right now with numerous flyrod fish between 20 and 30 pounds landed this week! Also, Brice Contessa of Fishing the Vineyard had this report specifically on the flats: Phil Cronin reports: Fishing remains strong all around the Vineyard. Bluefish are very easy to find and some blitzing schools run in |
The sightfishing on the Vineyard flats has remained very strong through the past week. Sunny days combined with mid-day low tides provided excellent conditions for seeing and catching bass on many of the islands shoreline and inner-pond flats. We are at the point in the season where we're seeing big schools of fish, combined with plenty of shots at singles and doubles. The fish we're catching on the flats have mostly ranged from 24-36 inches. These are truly beautiful fish to catch in one to three feet of water. We've been seeing some 40 inch plus fish on East and West end flats, but as of yet we've failed to land one of this caliber on the fly in a traditional sightfishing scenario. Hot flies have been green and lady crab patterns, jiggys, blind crabs and small flounder imitations
the 5 lb range while others are smaller. Whether fly or plug, these feisty chompers are a blast to play with. They are a great way to wait out a slack tide before hunting down some keeper bass in the rips and shoals. Bass on the other hand are a challenge to locate but are available in several spots and friendly to flyrodders and spin fishermen alike. The only problem with the daytime bass fishing by boat is you have to put up with a lot of other anglers doing the same thing. We have been fishing the rips and shoals on the east side of the island but it seems everyone else is as well. Being considerate of other boats is very important as we all want a chance at hooking our anglers up to nice linesider. So far, most of the other boats I have run across are behaving just that way. Fluking remains excellent as boats are bringing in limits frequently. Just remember, the fluke must be 17.5" and each angler is allowed 5 fish. Freshly caught fluke makes for a wonderful meal! Night shore fishing has been exceptional for both fly and spinning rods. I went up island last night flyfishing and caught as many bass as I could stand. The go to fly was the floating sand eel or as we sometime call it, "the stick". Thrown with a floating line, this fly does magic with a very, very, very slow retrieve. Where I fished there were clouds of sandeels and swirling bass all around me.
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Nantucket
Lynne Heyer of Cross Rip Outfitters reports: Here are a few pictures from Thursday early am trip West. Fun trip for Jeff James, me and friend Steve Rogers. |
Fishing has gotten pretty hot as of this week. A lot better than my report that started with the WIND report. It's still windy but the fishing is very good. I am getting reports from Dave Stetson one of our beach guides that he fished the Tom Never's area in the evening and he and friend Frank Bender picked up some nice Bass in the 36-39" range. Also heard that Dan the parts man at ADAP and his friend artist Chris Bonelli fished the Jetties area and found some nice fish. Tim Griffin reports there are fish in the lots of fish in the Harbor. Capt. Jeff has been ! doing very well sightfishing this week also. Capt Bill and Capt Shawn have been hitting the Rips to the West and getting into some nice Bass. As did I early Thursday with Jeff and James Kilmartin.
Captain Shawn has been having very good luck with Tuna this week, yup, I did say Tuna. He has been running a ways to the East but been very successful. I even get to share in his good fortune and am having Tuna for Dinner. It's windy again but the fishing is good get out and through a few.
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Chatham, Monomoy and the Outer Beaches
Tom George of Fish Pier Charters reports: Randy Jones of Yankee Angler reports: |
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North Side
Sponsors and big fish experts Terry Nugent of Riptide, and Mike Mathews of Offshore anglers have been finding and catching some bog bass and tuna running out of a variety of ramps, but almost always exploring Cape Cod Bay. Someof their first person reports are available on the bulletin boards here, and here.
Reel-Time moderator Bob Parsons reports: After yesterday's skunking, I broke out the deep water rig. Yup bought some seaworms and went tube n' worming today. Started a bit earlier as well never hurts either. Hooked up quickly in the main outer chanel -bluefish Hooked and lost another, but landed a second fish fairly quickly after that. Fish were running in the 7# category. I notice some bird activity farther out and to the east. Checked it out - stripers on sand eels in 7' of water. Small white deceiver in sandeel profile worked just fine catching several bass ranging form 20" to 27" and of course there is the obligatory "there were larger ones following" This lasted close to 45min. Afterwards I tried my luck out in the bay in 70' of water with one more bluefish to show for my efforts. Much happier camper today Jeff Smith reports: |
It was a great week for me and my sports on the Carla Noelle. We fished in CCB and beyond and had some fabulous days with over 30 legal fish on the fly....We had one really large group of big girls come by that we could not get to eat with feathers and fur.....One of my sports picked up a light spinning rod with 1/2 kalin jig head loaded with a 6" sluggo and immediately hooked up....At first I thought it might be a tuna by the way it ran and ran....Eventually it slowed and the *thump thump* on the rod tip told me it was a big girl....10 minutes later we see color and it is the biggest bass I have seen this year.....I lipped it and it took 2 hands to pull her aboard...She taped at 51"...We snapped a few quick *lousy* pics and got her back in the water...Put the boat in gear and revived her until she lit up and started kicking...When she bit down on my hand I knew she was ready to go....She swam off looking great and we felt great knowing she was back with the shcoo! l a bit wiser...