In the past 4-5 years the bass fishing from the Cape beaches has gotten exponentially worse and worse each year. The numbers of fish that used to venture in close to shore at night has gone way downhill since 2001 or so. Every year less fishermen are fishing the outer beaches. Each year the bluefish take up the slack more and more.
Diehards walk the beaches at night even with eels with nothing to show for it all summer long. It has gotten pathetic.
Why?
Some say it's the bait staying offshore a mile or so, others state the more obvious = seals are the reason. Is it a combination of lots of things or a cycle?
I want to know when it will improve because I love the outer beaches but I also know when it is futile to pound sand for no return.
I am sick of losing plugs to seals when I do hook up with an occasional bass or a large blue at night.
I imagine that even the boat guys out by Race point have seen a decline as well over the past few years.
What can be done? and who is going to get the seals out of there?
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