Ten days on the Cape
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Got back Tuesday from what was the best striper fishing I’ve had in quite a few years, mostly small fish, but so many and lots of them on gurglers, seeing the takes just enhances the the whole experience exponentially.
Anyway here are a few pics.
Headed out to Monomoy on the first morning with the hope of seeing some albies on the way, not so much.
Nauset Spit and Marsh looking down from where I stay, one of my favorite views.
Nauset Beach.
Nauset Marsh
Peasant Bay
An unusual visitor
What I came for
Pleasnt Bay again
Best fish of the trip, I was standing on the high bank of a creek with a guy who’d never fished for sripers before, telling him how I like to walk
the banks looking for fish and then cast to them. So we’re standing there
and I’m absent mindedly casting into the creek and then I see this fish just holding in the current at the head of the pool we were looking at, so I dropped the fly about three feet above the fish, let it drift down, then
stripped across in front of him, no reaction, the fly kept drifting, then the fish slid back, tipped up, and engulfed the fly, we could see right down into his mouth, the most incredible eat I’ve ever seen, then it was off to the races, I was into the backing with my six wt in no time and had to follow the fish downstream, jumping over ditches and watching out for holes, but once I caught up to him he came to hand pretty quickly. And, there was someone to take the picture, which is unusual.
Operation headquarters
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JCAwesome stuff. That is one of my favorite areas on the east coast! Its been awhile since I have been out to Monomoy. Sounds like its changed a bit and the spring fish arent cruising by in the numbers they were a decade ago.
I landed my biggest striper ever on a fly in the exact location of your last photo. That whole coast line is just great.
Well done!
A great post, and some great photos. I’ve thought of making that trip for years but I’ve always figured the crowds would be awful. From the looks of your pictures, there is plenty of room.
Colin, that was one of four jacks, from three different places.
Justin, never saw a blue, the striper population is down, and the sole
responsibility for that sad fact has to be laid on humans, pollution in the
Chesapeake, over harvest of baitfish (menhaden) and over harvest of
stripers of breeding size by recreational anglers and commercials, etc and many other environmental problems, it’s depressing.Tim, Monomoy is a different place since the cut between S Monomoy and S Beach closed off and stopped the exchange of water coming down through, no current, no fish. In addition, since there are fewer fish around, the distribution is much more spotty, where there used to fish everywhere, now there are lots of previously great spots that are basically empty of fish, it makes finding them much more challenging.
I had a lucky time in that the spots that I fished were full of fish.
Justin,
I don’t look for blues, so I guess that’s why I don’t see them so much. I did fish at night years ago, but sight fishing is my preference, I just feel that the visual aspect of fishing overwhelms my need to simply catch fish, but I do understand night fishing and I know it can be very exciting. In the nineties I used to go to the Vinyard in June and I have memories of
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