OK Jenn, here's a report from last Sat. on the Cape with BM and Flaptail.
TRURO was the place to be in that NE wind tossing metal. Steve S, Dave and I went Sat. and we told Dave no way are we going to Nauset so forget it. and we went north, he said Coast Gaurd so we said fine but if it sucks then we go to Race point ok. So we finally get there before sundown(Flaptail was late) and the tide was high already. we start right by the entrance and Steve gets a bass right away, I got 2 blues and then a bass, Dave got 1 bluefish. Then we finally move down which we should have done a little earlier, sun is just about going down and we all get hits right away. I cast about 350' and let the kastmaster sink then 1 tug and wham, fish on. Takes me a while and finally am landing a 25 lb bass right as those 2 hook up, Dave busts his off(googan) and Flaptail has a smoker on and is peeling line and as it starts to slow he gives it a little pump but it comes unbuttoned(I would have loved to see that fish) Any way I caught 2 more bass on the next 2 casts and when Steve looks over and sees me hooked up again he cracks up, I was using a 3oz kastmaster and he a 4 oz hopkins. Dave used a 2 oz kastmaster on his Arra1083 and VS reel with 20 Fins braid.
After that 25 pounder my next 2 were 20-22 lbs and then 18 lbs. I love catching big bass, one of these days I will get to one of those blitzes at the beggining of it and wear my arms out
A while later since it slowed down I picked up one small 8-9 lb after Dave finally got the skunk off his back with a nice 16 lb. bass, He weighed it, I guessed it's weight at 15 from where I was standing so 1 pound off isn't bad.
Jenn, the waves were 10' and wind blasting at us from the left a little and current was going left, made for some interesting fishing. we didn't see anyone else hooked up. Flaptail pointed out that second hole we hit. We saw one wave that had to be 15'
Even the surfers down by the lot were not on their boards, it was wave after wave.
Once the sun dropped the waves flattened a little but so did the fishing so we split to Race Point
Got to Race point and gabbed with Tony A. for a bit then hit the beach all the way to the tip, bass were in close at low water and sand eels were everywhere, I put on a black needle I made and caught my first ever Race Point bass on one of my own made plugs, good feeling.
Anyway,
Meanwhile Flaptail is into a school of fish and lost a cow again, so as they moved out we found them again but this time Dave was getting twinkee after twinkee on gold bombers to sluggos to Got Stripers Rubba. I nailed a bunch also on bomber,sluggos but nothing on a needle. Then the bass shut down and split but the sandeels were still there. It was after midnight and we were toast so we split. I got home at 3 toasted, since I was up at 6:00 am that day and at the canal in the morning jigging for a while, got one 15 lb bass there.
OK that was last weekend.
As for today, I got up at 2 am went straight to Nauset and ofcourse as I walked to the path I met Pepe' in front of me,
not a good sign.
Anyway, I decided to walk left and found someplace that looked good at low water after about an hour, switched over to a 5" mambo in olive and first cast had my first bend in the rod for the night, but after taking quite a bit of line I reeled in only the plug
Never got another hit. As the sun started peeking thru I saw those rotten seals in front of me. I walked towards a bar and tried poppers and still nothing.
I left and stopped by Chatham Light and saw it at low water and what big changes that place has made, the sand is all different even the channel goes out over against north beach now instead of south beach.
Jenn, just think of all those fish you are going to catch soon
