Things You Used To See Down The Backside!

[BasicPatrick]

I agree with what BigFish and others are reporting about the missing atmosphere of the backside. I have spent more time there this season than I have in many years and the place just feels empty during "fishermen's hours".

The hard core or dedicated shore fishermen are mostly gone...mostly. The ones that remain have gone ultra quiet as they see or hear what the internet has done to places like the canal and cutty. The feel and atmosphere of the cooler rack is a great loss to the outer Cape.

The fishing this year has actually been like someone turned back the clock six years because of all the bait. The juvy sea herring have made the back side come alive. Memorial Day to July 4th there was quality SHORE fishing if you both took the time to find out here the bait was located and remembered how to work a stretch of beach to find the cuts and holes that held fish.

There have also been good blitzes of both Bass and Blues. Just a couple days ago Nauset Inlet went off big time. When the bait is thick the seals mean very little.

Remember. It's impossible to adequately/properly fish multiple spots a hundred miles apart at the same time. You can't work the backside and the canal on the same really good tides. You can't fish elsewhere most of the season and then think that you can just drive to the back side and know which beach you need to fish or what is going on acros sthe board. None of us is that good.

I guarantee that if BigFish or Redlite put the time in like they used to they would find quality fishing on the back side. Yes, it's July and the mung is here and that always made the fishing suck. Yes, it's not the glory days bt it aint as bad as the intenet claims either.

[piemma]

Originally Posted by BasicPatrick

I agree with what BigFish and others are reporting about the missing atmosphere of the backside. I have spent more time there this season than I have in many years and the place just feels empty during "fishermen's hours".

The hard core or dedicated shore fishermen are mostly gone...mostly. The ones that remain have gone ultra quiet as they see or hear what the internet has done to places like the canal and cutty. The feel and atmosphere of the cooler rack is a great loss to the outer Cape.

The fishing this year has actually been like someone turned back the clock six years because of all the bait. The juvy sea herring have made the back side come alive. Memorial Day to July 4th there was quality SHORE fishing if you both took the time to find out here the bait was located and remembered how to work a stretch of beach to find the cuts and holes that held fish.

There have also been good blitzes of both Bass and Blues. Just a couple days ago Nauset Inlet went off big time. When the bait is thick the seals mean very little.

Remember. It's impossible to adequately/properly fish multiple spots a hundred miles apart at the same time. You can't work the backside and the canal on the same really good tides. You can't fish elsewhere most of the season and then think that you can just drive to the back side and know which beach you need to fish or what is going on acros sthe board. None of us is that good.

I guarantee that if BigFish or Redlite put the time in like they used to they would find quality fishing on the back side. Yes, it's July and the mung is here and that always made the fishing suck. Yes, it's not the glory days bt it aint as bad as the intenet claims either.

so I should consider a Ballston run?

[piemma]

I remember an August night long ago in front of the big dune at Ballston. All alone with a dozen eels. From 1 to 5 with a dropping tide nothing under 35. I took home 1 fish that I buried in the sand about 2:00 AM. I was sure it was better than 50 but when I weighed it at Murats it was 49 and change. I'm sure the sand sucked a couple of pounds out of her.

[tattoobob]

Originally Posted by piemma

I remember an August night long ago in front of the big dune at Ballston. All alone with a dozen eels. From 1 to 5 with a dropping tide nothing under 35. I took home 1 fish that I buried in the sand about 2:00 AM. I was sure it was better than 50 but when I weighed it at Murats it was 49 and change. I'm sure the sand sucked a couple of pounds out of her.

You should have filled it's belly with sand

[Swimmer]

Sorry, but what I remember that get my juices flowing was my surfboard and all those girls in bikinis.

[Jenn]

hmm...thats a loaded question Bigfish....are we talking 10, 20 or 30 years ago?

[luds]

Guys that caught fish and didn't talk about it.