| Provincetown | Emilio, at Nelson's Bait & Tackle in Provincetown, reports the fishing has slowed down some. Those walking and casting the beaches at night with live eels are still finding keepers, but they are mixed with a lot of schoolies. Day baits are sand eels and mackerel. Fluke fishing is still good with strip baits and small jigs and spoons. Bluefish are spotty, though the boaters are catching 'em while trying for stripers. The bluefin tuna hunters are starting to move to Maine for the rest of the season, along with the tuna. |
Barnstable Harbor |
Capt. Todd Balicki of Nemesis Charters emailed this report: "Barnstable Harbor area is full of 3- to 4-inch sand eels with small bass working DEEP under them…The key to the harbor this week was to actually find the bass under the bait, as there is so much present, which meant "bait school" hopping to locate feeding fish. Top areas were the Horseshoe Bar in mid-harbor and the flats off of Chapin Beach. If you are fly-rodding, try a Clouser or sparsely tied Deceiver or even one of Jack Gartsides' sand eel patterns. KEEP IT DEEP and use full sinking line. Look forward to breaking fish during the dawn hours on the incoming tides this week. The bait chunkers are winning the battle of the bulk this week, using chunked-up mackerel out toward the bell buoy." Thanks, Todd. |
| Nantucket Sound & Barnstable | Andy at the Powderhorn in Hyannis filed a brief that indicated that the south shore continues to fish well. Still lots of blues off Horseshoe Shoals. Spanish mackerel were caught off Osterville this week on B2's and Yo-Zuri plugs. Great Island remains a good spot for bottom fishing with bait for the stripers, and of course the bonito are coming in very well between the Vineyard and the mainland. |
| Harwich Port | Larry Nickerson, owner of Kildee Hill Bait & Tackle in Harwich Port, says the shore fishing is still weak but the fluke are about a half mile offshore and very catchable. He's seen few bass and blues recently come from the Sound up his way, but hears of some good-sized stripers being taken off Chatham's Lighthouse Beach at night at low tide. The south end of Monomoy is still holding fish too. |
| Nauset Inlet & Orleans | Tom at The Bait Shack in Orleans called in to say that the stripers and blues have been off Nauset Beach all this week at sunrise, within casting distance of shore. North to the inlet, all the mung in the water has been fouling the fishing on the ebb and flood tides. It has produced keepers though. The word on Brewster flats is that there are a ton o' bass in the 22- to 25-inch size, and also good fishing lately on the Brewster dropoff with the tube 'n worm. A few "lucky" boaters have seen big bluefin in the bay recently - chasing bluefish! On the freshwater scene, the ponds in Nickerson have been showing some very nice bass and trout on shiners lately. |
| Falmouth | Capt. John Christian charters around Woods Hole and the Elizabeth Islands. He says the fishing continues to be sound and predictable using the tube 'n worm along the shore in 20 feet or so of water. Stripers up to 30 pounds are still being caught daily. The bass are finally eating small lobsters so will likely stay near the shore and structure 'til the water starts to cool. |
| Nantucket | Barry at Barry Thurston's Fish Supply on Nantucket says they are still getting bluefish at Great Point, Tom Nevers and Surfside using poppers and Hopkins. The boaters are taking bonito at Madaket and Great Point on small Swedish Pimples, needlefish and silvery spoons. He says the catch- and-release billfish tournament set a new record with 63 marlin in one day! Fly-fishermen are working the creek mouths near town successfully, and the head of the harbor too, at sunrise, using Clousers, Deceivers and sand eel patterns. |
| Chatham & Monomoy | I guide in the Pleasant Bay and Monomoy area. The wind has been down for a remarkable six days, and that has allowed many fishers to get out on the ocean and take advantage of the big action along the outside of North Beach from Chatham to Nauset Inlet. The fish have been active at first light and then again later in the morning with the flood tide. Big stripers have been mixed in to a lot of 6- to 16-pound bluefish for action on every cast under the birds. Inside Pleasant Bay there is a lot of grass but a few schoolies opposite the camps and further up the bay in the channels for the patient caster. The stripers on the Monomoy flats are being hammered by boaters; if you go, it pays to be quiet, slow and out of sight of the fish you are casting to. |
| Martha's Vineyard | Coop at Coop's Bait & Tackle on the Vineyard reports the return of the stripers. Bonito fishing has been increasingly better, fly-fishers are working the Middle Ground, Tashmoo and Cape Poge with bunnies and blue and white Deceivers with a lot of silver in them. Boaters trolling for bones have been having success with Fast Traks. There are bluefish at Hedge Fence but the fluke have slowed this week. There seems to be bluefin tuna everywhere right now and the marlin are plentiful south of the island. |
| Wellfleet | The news in brief from Lucille at Black Duck in Wellfleet is that the blues are into the harbor and everyone is having the time of their life! |
The best fishing this week appears to be for bonito off the Vineyard and western Nantucket. Striper fishing has moved into the black eels at night phase but the fluke fishing continues to be productive. Hotspots for blues are off Nauset Beach and in Wellfleet Harbor.
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