getting to know thy enemy

[Back Beach]

Originally Posted by Slipknot

Surfcasting on Cape Cod is dying an ugly death And the horrible part is that the acceleration of that death in the past 3-4 years is very surprising Between the plovers, the seals and the mung caused by that outflow pipe, the Capes' economy will once again suffer.

Outflow pipe? Are you kidding Slip? I agree with you on everything but the mung and its origin. Mung has been there forever and its not related to pollution. The stuff primarily moves around based on the wind direction and time of year. When I fished heavily out there, we used to look for mung to find fish.A northwest wind with a dropping tide will clean the entire seashore out in less than one tide.Southwest/southeast wind will put it back. The summer fishing actually crapped out in 2000 when I quit and hasn't been good since. I wouldn't say the seals ruined it directly, but they did show up heavy a couple years after the fishing began to decline. We still had some good fall fishing from 2000-2004, but its gone to pot since.
All the guys I fished with out there kind of saw the writing on the wall in the late 90's, so we just found another place to fish. The cape is/was very dear to many of us, but you gotta know when to fold em. Buy some korkers, we'll be happy to drag you out on the rocks