Cape Cod Fishing Report
By: Capt. Hap Farrell
08/11/10


Consistent Summer Fishing...

If this summer is one thing it is consistent. Hot, muggy, and sunny with not much rain. As far as the fish are concerned this summer is one of more predictable season we've had for a while. Want stripers, it's Billingsgate Shoals or P-town. There are days when they are hard to find but that's why they call it "fishing" instead of "catching". The wire manufactures are having a field day.

Jigging is the main way we are using to catch the striper. Between hang ups and kinks in the wire, we are going through quite a bit of it. The people who shuck sea clams are staying busy because we are feeding the dog fish and stripers the sea clams when we fish behind the clammers. We are keeping the economy going just on terminal tackle alone.

The bluefish, for awhile they were a little scarce, but now they are becoming predictable. The Path and south of the not so Ugly house is where they are hanging out. Single hootchies work well. Mainly on 200 foot wires with a 10 foot leader, but mono will work, just not as well. These bluefish are huge. They average between 10 to 15 pounds with some even bigger. They also have shown up in by the #3 can. From there to the east and up a little on the flats along the Eastham shore. At times they might work up to the Sunken Meadow area. These are mixed in size, from 5 pound up to the really huge ones.

What we need again is another northwest wind. Preferably at night from 10 pm. to 5 am. so we don't have to fish in the wind. This will cool the water down some and drive the bass up on the shoals. That is the big stripers. There are some big fish being caught down near Barnstable Harbor out in the deep water. That is a hit or miss situation. You have to troll around until you run across a school and then stay with it.

This last week I had two old friends out with other family members and thier friends. It had been a couple of years since I had Lewis Bittle out and even more since Al Johnson was out with me. I had them both out and we landed a good number of both bass and bluefish. I met them both when we used to have the Bluewater Tournament out of Rock Harbor more than twenty years ago. In that tournament we had folks from Bermuda and a Boston fishing club fishing with us for three straight days. It was a treat to have them on the board. So, I'm donating the $20 of nonperishable foods in their names to the Lower Cape Outreach Council this week.

If you'd like to get out for some of this good fishing give me a call at 508-255-6211 or 508-240-8267.

Thanks Hap!

Stunmai II