Have read religiously and enjoyed thoroughly your postings this spring. I will
be off for 2 weeks in Woods Hole starting not soon enough, and would like to try
out the Middleground. This is our second year of boat ownership (19 ft whaler)
and I have been out there only a couple of times, once when the current was
flowing hard to the West and once at slack. The one time I tried to cast lures
there, all I managed to do was break my rod, for which I am grateful since it
gave me a reason to buy the one I have now.
In the spots I remember (directly in front of the entrance to Lake Tashmoo and
East of there all the way to the green can, it looked to me that that ebbing
current was pretty energetic and I didn't want to let the boat just drift across
it. If you fish from the smooth water upcurrent of the rip, you pretty much have
to have one person only driving and others fishing. Is that what you do?
Can you anchor upstream of it? Or drift behind the big wave and cast
into it from the back? Do you pick a time when the current is less torrential
and then drift across? Is the western end easier to manage? Is it easier on
a easterly current?
Any hints as to how to approach this area without getting drenched or worse?