Striped bass fishing here in Cape Cod Bay has been on fire. If you have not already booked your charter, do so now. Give us a call and see if we have any space available.
Here is our latest photo from this past weekend.
Striped Bass Fishing 2021 on fire Cape Cod
Test Post / Winter
It’s snowing here on Cape Cod, so it seemed like a good time to work on the website. In season, please check our Facebook page for updates as it easier to update with quick pics and messages. That said, we won’t be updating it that often as we’ve come to realize over the last couple of seasons that many boats were using our Facebook posts as a way to stay on the fish and follow us on the water. We’ve got no problem helping other boats, just stop by the boat or buy us a beer 🙂 instead of cyber-stalking.
May Cape Cod Bay Striper Report
May Striper fishing was nothing short of fantastic, and June has the potential to be one of the best months ever. Cape Cod Bay has been absolutely loaded with Mackeral, Herring, Squid, and Sandeels, and it seems as if you can walk on the 32″-38″ Stripers that are chasing them.
Our “worst” trip so far this season had 10 keepers plus shorts, and we’ve had numerous trips with 20 and 30+ keepers. I don’t know how long the mackeral will stay, but the normal trip has consisted of filling the livewell with macs and then using every single one for Bass. While the livelining has been fun, we’ve also been doing very well vertical jigging with 12 lb spinnig outfits – 38″ bass on light tackle has been an absolute blast.
While the numbers of Stripers have been outstanding, June is the month when we start to see the real big girls. The CC Canal and Buzzards Bay have been holding some real cows. As this moon passes, look for the real bigs to migrate into the Bay. The next two weeks should have some serious fish.
Good luck out there.
Quick May Cape Cod Bay fishing report
Cape Cod Bay is absolutely filled with Mackeral. I think it might actually be possible to walk on them from the Canal all the way to Green Harbor. With that, there are serious #’s of Stripers in all the early season spots.
Cod fishing was solid on our trips this week as well with a good mix of cod, haddock and redfish. The Herring and Mackeral are stacked 25-30ft off the bottom on the SW Corner. If the water temps stay down, we are setting up for an incredible opening to the Tuna season on June 1.
2012 Update
Well, looks like we did a terrible job of updating the site with 2011 fishing reports. I did try to keep up with the Facebook site, as that is alot easier to log on and post photos, so that worth a look if you want to see what we’ve been up to.
That said, 2011 was a fantastic season for Big Stripers in Cape Cod Bay.
Cape Cod Fishing Charters Report
Still haven’t had time to really catch up on reports, but this one deserves its own post.
Sunday, July 10th – Captain Don decided that he had run charters too many days in a row and needed a day off. So he went to church and took his Grand-sons fishing at 9:30. Great Day on the water. His daughter Laura caught a few nice keepers, and Grand-son Jack (age 8 ) caught a few as well including his biggest fish to date – a 27.5 lb 45″ Striped-Bass.
Could very well been our favorite trip of the season.
Cape Cod Bay Striped-Bass Report
Well, Striper Fishing in the Bay has been outstanding. Too tired to do a good job of updating the site regularly – but that’s a good thing. We’ve been fishing nearly every day for the last month and a half, and Cape Cod Bay has treated our customers very, very well. Will try to keep up with the pics and reports – check out our Facebook page as that is often easier and quicker to update.
Good luck out there.
Captain Don
Cape Cod Fishing Report
June Striper fishing in Cape Cod Bay has been outstanding. Save one afternoon trip with a nasty east wind, it has pretty well been limits and lots of releases on a daily basis. We have been splitting our time fairly evenly between Billingsgate Shoal and Provincetown, as both areas are holding tremendous numbers of fish. The middle of the bay has also been productive, as one afternoon we found acres of migrating Stripers on Top near the Fishing Ledge. While most of our fishing has been trolling, we haven’t even had to break out the wire rigs once this year. We’ve also seen far more surface feeding fish than usual, and have been able to break out the spinning gear on many occasions. Monday, there were hoards of Bass on top, and seemed like they were fighting each other for 9″ sluggos on top.
There are no guarantees in fishing, but this is pretty darn nice right now..
Good luck,
-Captain Don
Cape Cod Bay Striper Fishing
Friday’s good Striper fishing continued right through the weekend. Saturday we started out by jigging up some Mackeral in front of the canal, but unfortunately the live bait bite wasn’t as good as Friday. We ran down to Billingsgate and found good numbers of Bass right on the shoal. There was a very good bite on rigs, but since we had a family with four kids on board, we didn’t want to put out the wire. This probably resulted in less overall fish than we could have had, but with a little extra time and switching a few things around, all the kids got plenty of fish. Sometimes you have to give a little extra time, but you do what it takes to get the job done.
Sunday the bite on the Shoal was very good, and we got alot of fish with mini-rigs trolled on lead-core line. The troll bite was constant, and lasted all morning – not sure of the fish count, but it was solid. Right after the tide turned, all the fish came up and we put the troll rigs away for some light tackle casting. Grabbed a bunch of fish on the spin gear, and even got a couple of nice ones on 12 lb test. Just a great time with fish and birds busting all around the boat.
Back out there tomorrow with a morning and afternoon trip. Give a call for availability – right now we’re booked 20 of the 30 days in June, but we definately have some afternoon trips available.
Cape Cod Bay Striper Report
Striper Season in the bay is off to a great start. The unbelievable 2 week blitz that occured in the canal got an aweful lot of press, and those fish have moved through and set up in their usual haunts in Cape Cod Bay. All of the spring areas are holding fish – good numbers on Billingsgate and up at P-town, and lots of good fish feeding on the Mackeral Schools between Sandwich and Barnstable.
Friday morning we jigged up about 40 macs in 20 min right in front of the canal. Made the quick run down to Barnstable for the outgoing tide. The bite there has been very good, but we got chased out by all the schoolie bass (and a few small keepers). We made the run out to one of our deeper water spots and found nice action with cookie-cutter 36″ fish. Fun fishing, with the largest Bass of the day a tad over 40 inches. Great morning on the water.
June’s New Moon is on Wednesday – look for the season’s first push of really Big Fish to come through mid-week. The bait is there, and the timing is perfect for some great days.
