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Originally Posted by hyefisherman2
(Post 606668)
i hear ya flap...falmouth surf fishing SUCKS!!!! fly fishing....ok in the spring.
canal is where my heart is. :humpty:
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Used to haunt the canal day and night when I first moved here. Fished with a gang on the mud flats at the west end by the RR Bridge. Had to make my way up the hierarchy, started by spending two years at the tail end of 8 guys and two years after that got a mid line spot with some catches of bigger fish. Stash, Johnny Williams, Ski, Tommy K. and I believe Mike P. was there too. Finally one night I cut off Niel Plante on purpose because I couldn't take his sh!t anymore and he got right in my face but I just looked at him like he had two heads and gave him a puzzled look and got a sly smile from Stash, the night night I landed a 45 pounder on an eel on 16 lb test in a running west tide and my first congratulations and welcome by Stash from then on was 2nd or 3rd in line to Ski and Stash. Only took five years of perserverance. I had popped my cherry on the flats. For years we did them good, then scattered about the canal drifting eels on new moon tides in July, August and September.
The Fulp brothers, Greg Clemens ( who was the first person I ever met down here who made his own plugs and some to sell out of his car, way before Hawghunter and others, if you go to the Powderhorn in Hyannis and see Andy he has a couple giant Mackerel plugs Greg made for trolling for Tuna, he was way ahead of his time) Stiffy, Dan the Man Morin and the Ledoux Brothers started in on the ditch hard then. This was 87/88.
When my first daughter was born in 1987 I went strictly nights and had a deal with the Regatta of Falmouth and Cotuit to sell bass exclusively to them for 2.50 a pound no matter what the market did or was doing, cash on a silver waiters tray. No slips no haggling, meet Gilley Pepin the chef at that time, weigh them on a hanging scale in a shed out back of the FAlmouth restaurant and get the money. Slick as sheet.
Bought 89/90/ discovered the flyrod for Striped Bass and spent the better part of the next ten years or so doing nothing but abnd became quite a snob, gave up selling as heathenism and looked at plugging and eels as crude. After all those years went back to the beach after spending countless hours casting to bass with the long wand and the biggest fish I could take was only 32 pounds.
Dusted off the nine foot GLB1081M I had wrapped as a spiining rod for eels in the canal and went to Truro one September night and took three fish that Spetember 17th that went high 30's to one mid forty pounder and the flyrods went into hibernation for five years.
Now I have come back to the canal and have hit every set of breaking tides and a few night sorties. I have only been skunked twice ( once was yesterday) have taken fish to high 30 pound range ( the blitz in June) and many 20 to 25 pounds. I love the canal again especially the no herring ban, which when and if it ever is lifted I will probabaly give up the canal again. I still do not fish eels or bait but I do just LOVE to jig.
Yep the canal can be wondeful and this year it's something special though not this last set of tides for me. It's a good choice for something to really love to fish.
All the fish I sold them and I was out almost every night, were taken on eels from the canal
