Summer doldrums

[Sluggoslinger]

If I can get out there, I'll go. I might not be as excited but I still savor ever minute I get on the water in the summer. Sometimes, I'll just put a little more beer in the cooler and be a little more lazy while I'm out there.

As far as changing tactics, I'll look for cooler water and I'll give up on any chance at top water action.

[Back Beach]

When the outer cape was good, August used to be the best month for 40 plus pound fish. My best days/nights were all in late July/ August. If you can overcome all the negatives out there right now, the next six to eight weeks are the best time for a biggie IMO. Live or rigged eels only, please.

[piemma]

Originally Posted by Back Beach

When the outer cape was good, August used to be the best month for 40 plus pound fish. My best days/nights were all in late July/ August. If you can overcome all the negatives out there right now, the next six to eight weeks are the best time for a biggie IMO. Live or rigged eels only, please.

August 16, 1996 Ballston Beach in the hole in front of the big dune. More 30-40lb fish than you ever saw. Mike is right. We use to kill them in August on the Outer Cape beaches. Start at the Mission Bell and work to High Head. Work every bar and hole. If you didn't score big you ran to Head of the Meadow, Coast Guard, Long Nook, Le Count. It was all live and rigged eels and the sharpies killed em.
Names like Lanny, #^&#^&#^&#^&y C, George Heavey, Tony S, Chucky from NY, Jimmy Cigar and the true legend, George Calzone.

[Rockport24]

So last year I got skunked all throughout July and the first part of August, but I was only throwing swimmers with red gill teasers and the occasional storm shad, plus I was only fishing around either sunrise or sunset. This year I am using live eels and sluggos and trying to fish only at night and it's going better than last year - no large yet - but no skunks either.