Looking for Cape Outer Beach Report

[rbrothers]

How have the outer beaches been (fly) fishing and is the water clean? My father is on the Cape this week and is having a tough time getting into fish. Any help would be appreciated. He is located in the Harwich area. He does have access to a boat but prefers fishing from the shore. Thanks ahead of time.

[bdowning]

Nauset, north of the town beach lot, was ok for schoolies this past Sunday until sunup anyway. Didn't get anything on the fly but most were hitting 70-80 ft offshore on plugs, beyond my flycasting range. Had one obviously heavier fish that was poorly hooked and got off.

No mung at all, yet. If I don't oversleep, I'll probably try it again early tomorrow morning.

-bd


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[pogeman]

I've been fishing the outer beaches last weekend and during the week with little or no luck (using eels, sand eels and macks). Sunday I tried the bay side up past Wellfleet - I should have been fishing there all along. Caught quite a few 34 - 36" blues and a couple of 35'+ stripers. I got there late so I only got the last 2 hours of outgoing; once the tide changed, that was it. A friend who owns a boat was out Sat & Sun and said there are more fish large and small than he has ever seen but they are not coming in to the outer beaches; way, way too much bait offshore (sand eels).
This guy catches more keepers than anyone I know and even he got skunked the past couple of weekends.