Mung Weed on Outer Cape
 

Visited four Wellfleet beaches this afternoon (outgoing tide) with my bride of 42 years. Did not see any trace of Mung weed. Also did not see any sign of bait fish or birds working schools of baitfish. Saw just one gray seal.

Anybody have current striped bass fishing report from outer Cape Cod? Hope to fish there at night next few weeks but today (Wed. Sept. 18th, 2013) place looked devoid of marine life.

You just gave the report....seals!:uhuh:

Outgoing tide and the NNW wind we've had recently blew the mung out. This is common with NW wind out there. Winds going back WSW next couple nights could bring it to life. Bring the eels, cover some ground and you might get a big reward.
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Thanks Back Beach. I can deal with seals (don't see them on dark nights) and great white sharks but Mung Weed drives me crazy. Wellfleet beaches looked way too clean to me.

I'm sure the gusty north/northwest winds (last Monday) blew out the weed. Thanks for the heads up.

it may have blown the mung out away from the outer beaches, but it blew it into a bay beach :wall:

Funny, last weekend I attempted to fish the Monomoy rips, some of the most munged up conditions I have seen in a while out there. Its a floating mess and the only savior was I was in a boat. I used to HATE walking to the Nauset inlet and finding it munged up. At least in the boat we could poke around.
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Mung is nuts. I used to get the local pass at cahoons and mid summer I would watch the tourists come down with rented rods and their hi lo's or tins and cast out into it then watch as they spent a half hour clearing the line. On occasion though they would school me and drag a blue or bass in. That I would really enjoy. Jealous to be honest. I wish I could get that excited about about a single fish
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Mung can be a pain from the surf no doubt but it moves around with the tide and if you're patient it can be mitigated. The stuff has been out there since the beginning of time thus its always been present to some degree.

I can tell you all the years I fished from a small 12' aluminum boat out there the mung was what we looked for as it provided cover for the fish. Rarely did you catch a fish if mung wasn't present, believe it or not. From the shore its a bit different but you can still find holes in the mung patches if you keep walking along and sometimes you nail the fish right on the edges.

Seals are a different story but I feel people simply throw seals and mung as lazyman's excuses for not making the effort to fish out there. Like the mung, seals move to other places at times, leaving opportunity for the committed.

Agreed generally on sandy beaches loaded up the spots where you find some clearer water are also areas with heavier current. Those subtle channels of fast water provide ambush points for bass.
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no fish out there,weed or no weed,only seals and great whites.

Need a canal guide? Anytime you want to come jigging let me know. I have a spare cruiser now to boot
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I agree Mike. I remember when High Head would get totally munged up and we'd fish the holes between the mung. Drop an eel in a clear spot and BANG, you're on. Landing the fish was another story.:uhuh:

Ugh !
Walking fish back up into the dune because the guides were jammed with and the line had 30 pounds of mung on it was a real drag.
Did get some nice fish that way though.
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Yup. I remember!

Mark, i have a bike set up for fishing the canal,actually made it down a few times in late aug and early sept.back in vt right now,not sure when i will be back to close the camper up. if you around when i get down lets hook up.the great thing about mung is that it keeps everybody away.

:fishin:Pikies:uhuh:

Bruce is this what a pikie looks like caught in the land of no fish