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Me and the guys I fish with have caught some cod the last two years running from the surf on the Outer Beaches of Cape Cod. Always in May, gone by June.
One of the cod taken last year was pretty good size, about 31 inches or so if my memory serves me correctly. Not bad at all for a surf cod these days. There are not many out there, though. Our group of guys gets 3-4 a year as incidental catch as we're going for early season Outer Cape stripers.
Two years ago we caught plenty of small pollack in addition to cod. One night we were on the beach around sunset when an absolutely immense school of small pollack pushed right into the beach...even up into the wash. Some other folks were grabbing them with their bare hands. There were plenty of schoolie stripers mixed right in with them. I had a Yozuri Mag Darter with a teaser on, and I was catching fish every cast. Schoolie stripers hit the darter, pollack hit the teaser. All the fish were small, but it was an incredible scene. Plenty of older guys were saying they hadn't seen pollack caught off the beach in years, but I've seen it several times since.
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