Canal 50#er this am

[Skitterpop]

* *

[BrianS]

*twitch*

[NIB]

Not really a fan of the ** tides.I know guys there with more experience than me have had some good luck with em.I think it makes the window for productive jigging smaller.that could be better.
At the bus stop. Dawn slack has all the mad bikers out lookin to catch fish they see.By then I'm about ready for bed.

[Mike P]

Mad bikers

Funny scene this AM. After hitting some spots Cape-side ahead of the throngs, I pulled into the lot below Friendly's, waited 10 minutes for a parking spot, and pulled in next to a van whose driver looked vaguely familiar, and after 30 seconds, realized it was Big Dave. We started gabbing, and one or two pods of fish started breaking in the middle. Next thing you know, about 10 bikers come racing down from the pole 150 area looking like the lead pack at the freakin' Tour de Effin' France Sort of like watching guys over the Vineyard tearing up East Beach in their trucks chasing schools of bluefish.

We counted 25 guys fishing from pole 175 to the Sag on the Cape side, and no less than 30 bikes parked along the service road between poles 160 and 150 on the mainland side. There were enough vehicles parked at the rink to make it look like the Stanley Cup finals had been moved there. I've never seen Halfway Gate with as many vehicles parked there as I saw this AM. No room at Portagee.

I guess word travels fast. A fifty and a few 40s yesterday, mob scene today.

Oh yeah---I didn't see a single bent rod among those 25 guys opposite us, and not a single fish came back to the parking lot in all the time we were there

I love report chasers.

[Karl F]

Originally Posted by Mike P

I love report chasers.

lemmings.....
here is a tip for the report chasers....
Fish Move On....
seen a bit of it this week, down my way, based on a bullchit (wicked inflated), report in the local rag.
hope they all like the 12-20 inch fish that were there waiting for them this weekend...
keep chasing phantom fish...lemmings

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by NIB

Not really a fan of the ** tides.

Yesterday was only a *. Won't be another ** until mid-July, and they'll all be on the full moon the rest of the year.

[BrianS]

darn right they do... thats why i went in a TOTALLY different direction from the canal..... unfortunately, it was the utterly wrong direction

Originally Posted by Karl F

lemmings.....
here is a tip for the report chasers....
Fish Move On....
seen a bit of it this week, down my way, based on a bullchit (wicked inflated), report in the local rag.
hope they all like the 12-20 inch fish that were there waiting for them this weekend...
keep chasing phantom fish...lemmings

[Skitterpop]

Those fish are probably past Boston heading for Maine by now

[ProfessorM]

Buddy of mine talked to the guy at a local bait shop. He said it took him 45 min. to get it in and he is no novice. No breaks he just cast. Polaris. He went to the spot this morning and there was 20 people or more like Mike said, like there was another 50 lber waiting there or something. p.

[Bigcat]

I was on the Canal this morning 4:30. I have not seen so many people since that big blitz of last fall.

[jettyjockey18]

not sure why everyone is surprised the canal was a zoo today...memorial day, warm, an east turn at 5:30am and reports of many large being taken...i would have been more surprised if it was empty...

[Vermonter]

What suprised me this weekend is how predictable some can be while fishing. Even with the hordes due to a holiday, as well as the later fish reports about a 50, all you had to do to get away was walk a bit. I fished the east end and Pips was jammed. I kind of like the Dolphins/Murderers Row area personally and with only say a 1/4 mile hike, at the most, I had it all to myself sunday morning from roughly 4am on till I took a break. Im not a big fan of crowds when fishing, tho a lot of that is due to a bad hooking accident at Wasque years ago.

As for the tour de france and guys who mug a spot after hearing about a 50, all I can say is they ought to learn fish do move with some consistency. I was taking a break from fishing around 10:30 sunday and happened to stop in to Cape Cod Charlies to say hi to Carl when coincidentally the phone call came in about the 50 pounder. I never even thought to ask where on the canal. Although his boss and I did both react pretty much he same way when Carl told us ...."What?????? he got it on top? No sh*t."

Plenty of people here with more years/hours in than me for fishing the surf, especially considering relative locations, but this seems like a decent start to the season to me. Anyone else?

[Skitterpop]

I see more and larger coming from the canal this year....not based on years of experience or deep personal knowledge but a hunch and some thoughts from a few years of reading.


I dislike the crowds to.... love to have a non breaking fish collapse onto a topwater bait ....... sweet and exhiliarating.

[ProfessorM]

Friend of mine got spooled yesterday.

[eelskimmer]

I won't be fishing this weekend, but next shore 50# early next
week will be north of Plymouth. Am I burning any spots????