In general, things slowed down on the Cape this weekend from the
fishing of a few days ago. IMHO, this is typical of fall and the best is yet
to come. You'll often have to do a lot of moving around at this time of year
to locate the fish. When the migration starts in earnest on the Cape (and I don't
think it's really gotten going yet), things should get a bit easier.
Race Pt.
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I walked out to the Traps on Saturday night (about a 1/4 mile shy of the point).
Good tide (dropping), bad wind (blowing offshore), and bad surf conditions (calm).
Blues and bass are often here now in big numbers, but nothing happened when I was there.
Saw a few very small stripers taken by the meat fishermen, but that was all.
Chatham (Lighthouse Beach)
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Mother nature managed to mess things up here on Sunday morning. Thick mats of weed
clogged near shore beyond the point where I've been having a lot of success,
making fishing impossible. The boat channel was
clearer, but the current was too fast to keep a weighted eel in the strike zone, at
least from the beach. There was some bird activity and a couple of fish caught
by fly fishermen just north of the light by the rip rap, but I hadn't brought
the fly gear with me.
Canal and Other Places
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Later Sunday morning I went to the east end between the power plant and the marina,
only to arrive at the tail end of a blitz. Birds were working frantically over
a medium pod of stripers, mostly out in the middle with occasional swerves to the
bulkhead. Connected on a half dozen before they retreated out of casting range.
The bass were mostly hitting deep on bucktail jigs and heavy metals. Little
interest shown in topwater lures. 99% of the fish were under 24 inches, although
I saw one guy drag a nice-sized keeper back to his truck. Loads of baby herring
bait still in the area.
Checked Sandwich and Scorton Creeks before heading home, but it didn't look like
much was happening in either place. Judging from the other reports, sounds like
Plymouth to Boston was the weekend hot spot, but today's feast could be tomorrow's
famine.
-bd