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Final piece of data...I'm staying in Edgartown. I'm definitely willing to bike for up to an hour to get to a good spot.
Now for the questions? Can I get to Wasque on a bike from Edgartown? Are there any other easily bikable places you'd suggest I try to fish? I'll only be able to carry a smaller bunch of plugs since I'll be biking rather than my usual giant surf bag in a truck. What plugs should I focus on? Is the area near Edgartown Light worth fishing?(looks good on a map and is right down the street from our hotel)
The places I've heard of near Edgartown are Wasque, South(Katama) Beach and some beach that has a couple of bridges north of town. Any information on the relative merits of these places would be useful. Can I get to all these places(or near enough to walk) on a bike?
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First off, you can take the ferry from Edgartown to Chappy - runs from 7am to 11pm (or something along those lines). With a vehicle, you can get on Chappy any time from Katama Rd/South Beach but wouldn't be doable on a bike or to walk. For bass, easy bike spots would be the inside of the Cape Pouge gut where there is a little park just past the golf course, I think on Tom's Neck or North Neck Rd ( I know it when I drive it). Forget the name for sure but if you look at a Chappy map, it's opposite of where Cape Pouge wraps around and almost joins Chappy again. That's a good spot on the outgoing. There are two trails from the parking lot that go down to the beach. On the east trail, there is several bars just to the right that you can work before you wade, eels, danny swimmers, needlefish and teasers (fly or redgill) work well in there. The west trail (which ends up about 400' further down the beach) will bring you closer to the mouth of the gut, you'll be closer to the fast/deep water. You'll see the beach getting rocky with several boulders mixed in. This can be a good spot for bass (keep in mind, I'm only there in the spring and last year was my first fall trip).
Further down Chappy Road to Wasque, there is a fisherman's park where you can leave the bike up top and head down to the point for bass/blues/albies when available - bucktails for bass, rangers/tins for blues, tins , Murderous Richards, Megabaits for albies... I don't know if albies do their sunrise dance of Wasque this early but they're in pretty thick in September...
Chappy Beach, just after the ferry is another good spot for albies and there are some nice bass on the Edgartown side at the fishing pier. One fellow last year got a 40 inch or so bass at that pier, wieghed it in at the Derby shop, and was able to released it alive...
South Beach can be worked at night with eels walking if your up to it... Check with some of locals as there are several holes and bars along that beach that can be walked too - not easy walking sand though...
Next spots, down long beach between E-town & Oaks Bluff little bridge(north) and big bridge (south) are ok on the incoming and drop and you can get into bass, blues, and albies there - the big bridge is better
There is also a point on the Edgartown side at the light and a bit north of the light but I don't know about access to it...
Hope this helps....
If you have acces to a car, got to Squibby - it's like Weekapaug Point, Central Beach, Narr Pier all wrapped up into one ;D
Hope that helps - good luck... Here's a little map for ya....
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