bdowning
07-02-2000, 01:59 PM
I haven't been here in over a year and, man, has it changed! That bar that ran parallel to the beach and the channel is no longer exposed at even the big minus tides of this weekend. Instead, the structure has gotten more complicated with a nice bar perpendicular to the axis of the beach. This bar is separated from a HUGE outer flat by another 3-4 ft deep feeder channel. The outer flat goes to the horizon and has narrowed the harbor mouth more than I've seen in the past. It too is divided by feeder channels.
Anyway, I had to quickly relearn the area, but the fish were around and willing. Plenty of schoolies to 26 inches, all on epoxy sand eel patterns, especially on outgoing. A few small
blues. Best technique for me was what worked at Brewster: sit fly on bottom in current and twitch it until you feel a tap and then yank the fly line to set hook. All other retrieves were mostly ignored.
Pockets of tailing bass here and there, easily spooked. Some much bigger "gray torpedos" whipping in and out of feeder channels too fast for sight casting. Next time this happens,
the crab pattern will come out.
Take the crowd at Brewster, double it, and that's what you've got at Barnstable Hbr this weekend, including mucho boats. However, the productive fishing acreage at the latter is much larger.
-bd
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Anyway, I had to quickly relearn the area, but the fish were around and willing. Plenty of schoolies to 26 inches, all on epoxy sand eel patterns, especially on outgoing. A few small
blues. Best technique for me was what worked at Brewster: sit fly on bottom in current and twitch it until you feel a tap and then yank the fly line to set hook. All other retrieves were mostly ignored.
Pockets of tailing bass here and there, easily spooked. Some much bigger "gray torpedos" whipping in and out of feeder channels too fast for sight casting. Next time this happens,
the crab pattern will come out.
Take the crowd at Brewster, double it, and that's what you've got at Barnstable Hbr this weekend, including mucho boats. However, the productive fishing acreage at the latter is much larger.
-bd
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