South Cape Report - 6/13 - 6/16
Surface feeding blues on the flats and prowling the Falmouth shore;
schoolie bass in the ponds, and some decent sized 24-26" bass off Waquoit
and Nobska.
I took Jeff Veracka out to Cotuit flats Sat AM for some bluefish action.
We probably each hooked at least 50 bluefish using both spinning and fly gear
and saw hundreds of finning, sunning, blues up on the surface.
I believe at one point we tossed spinning lures in the same direction and
each had over 10 strikes on the retrieve. The action was so fast and furious
that it was far more fun to toss hookless poppers at the fish and see how
many strikes a single retrieve could yield than to struggle to fish and
land yet another bluefish.
Flywise - we each were only tossing popper flies 30 feet off the boat and
getting 2-3 strikes per retrieve in that short distance. They were not what
you would call shy fish; any splash and wham, a pod of bluefish would
converge on it like dogs on a bone.
With a very slight breeze and chop the conditions were ideal; we could see
the finning and swirling blues before we cast and could pick our targets.
Of which there were more than plenty.
At one section of time we saw perhaps a hundred visible bluefish within a
20 foot radius of the downwind side of the boat, perhaps sheltering or
feeding in our lee.
The fishing was so good and so plentiful and the wind/tide conditions were
so good that we didn't move the boat once in perhaps an hour and a half
after we arrived. Wherever we looked, any direction, there were bluefish.
In addition to the Cotuit blues I found:
* schoolie bass in Green Pond on the flats by my house at the high
tide. My daughter had a blast watching them swirl and chase
jigs.
* two different sets of 24-26" fat bass; one off the beaches and
boulder bowls down by Nobska point and one off Waquoit.
Both sets took white deceivers drifted deep.
* rat blues along the Falmouth coast from Waquoit to Falmouth heights
popping up here and there in surface packs and making a
pain of themselves by getting in the way of the bigger bass
below.
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