Well the beach sucked.......

[Flaptail]

Last night. Me and Stiffy fished a very lonely Race Point and a few Truro beaches last night from dusk till dawn. One dink on a needle, one tremendous hit at 1 this morning while wading a bar edge several hundred feet fom the beach on the incoming and a couple dink hits.

No real rain till this morning at daybreak with a couple lightning hits and lots of seals, No bait = no fish. Conditions were perfect. Where the F*ck are they?

Thank Christ for boats. That is all.

[CANAL RAT]

hanging around your local herring runs

[Water Treater]

Steve,

Same thing last Sunday evening, May 28th, 8:00 P.M. to 1:00 A.M.

Perfect conditions: no moon, calm surf, incoming tide. But no bait and no fish. None.

Bill Brett (aka "water treater")

[Skitterpop]

Anybody try the bay side?

[Backbeach Jake]

Bayside was real quiet but I was there at low. Coupla hours I'll try again. Backside turned off like a light. Change of wind, I think, may make the difference. Plus they closed South Race

[Sweetwater]

Originally Posted by Backbeach Jake

Bayside was real quiet but I was there at low. Coupla hours I'll try again. Backside turned off like a light. Change of wind, I think, may make the difference. Plus they closed South Race

South Race is open just at the campers, right?

[stiff tip]

it sucked big time last night .....where the fuc* is all the bait + fish?????. we fished hard from 9pm to 6am not even a hit for me ...whats odd is no schoolies at all or any thing else, the beach was dead ... at dawn lots of seals in the surf.wtf i cant figure it out. wheres all the beach fish? or is it about the seals and no fish ????.what do you think????

[Karl F]

Have not been north of my beach, yet, this year.
Thanks for report...

stiffy.. I do know one thing, saw it plain as day.. we were seeing one, sometimes two, tops three seals over the course of an evening/nights fishing, for most of May...I only went a few times, but talk with the "regulars" dailey (the guys (and gal) that fish 6-7 nights a week), and get BS free reports from most... bait and schoolies, sometimes both, boiling.. then one night.. the tribe of seals returned from their springtime frolicking and juvy seal making expedition.... returned in large #'s litterally hundreds.. pods of 20-30, and multiple pods...
bait, schoolies... exit stage left.... so when you ask if it's about the seals.... I say... YEAH... one of the best unkown bass chasers that fishes hard at the inlet was out there the first night they showed up again in #'s.. he said they were coralling the bass and bait into the last two bars at the inlet.. pushing the bait onto the sand.. there is a channel in the last bar, and he said it was stacked like a herring run at peak, except it was all 13-15 inch bass, sqeezing over into open water, to get away from the feeding pod of Sea Rats.....

Bring back the bounty!!!!!!

[kippy]

I believe the time has come to control the seal population...it is long overdue. If I remember from last year, the reports from the outer cape beaches were lack of bait and stripers as well, probably due to seals. When is the government going to do something?

[Slingah]

not this seal baloney again ...nothing worse than fishing hard all nite and when the sun comes up there are a load of those bastages...they must be controled

[gone fishin]

30 ough 6 and 5 bucks a nose. Please bring back the old days!

Karl any wash up with holes yet?

[backbeach]

They lock up the beaches for the birds, you think the greenies and the public at large cares about surfcasters- especially when you are talking about "cute, cuddly" seals? The only way they do anything is when the coliform counts from their waste closes the beaches or they toll in the big sharks and close the beaches. When that happens and the chamber of commerce makes an issue of it MAYBE we have a chance. Even then it 's far from a given. Out in California; probably the only state more liberal than ours, they let sea lions sink boats in marinas and can't do anything about it(can't "harass" marine mammals) The sea lions get on the boats till they swamp them, when enough climb on. You can imagine the insurance lobby and marina people are doing whatever they can.(How'd you like to pay thousands for a boat, thousands more to moor it,etc and then not be able to use it, save it, or chase off the sea lions? If they don't have the clout, you think anyone gives a @#$% about nocturnal beach fishermen? I bet were looked upon as vagrants more than tourists as most of us aren't renting condos and expensive lodging if we are spending all night fishing. This is a runaway train type bad situation I'm afraid. We are the last of the buffalo hunters...

[MAC]

I hit 8 spots on the outside and found seals at every one. Did 1 small fish but that was it and only witnessed 1 other fish caught. (both shorts) Looks like a bleak season so far from the beach. Did run into Lab. 1, a couple of his friends from NY and Johnny so we had a good time shooting the breeze at least.

[Flaptail]

Got invited to fish the shoreline of one of the Elizabeth Islands last night with Numbskull (George has connections and it was not Cuttyhunk) rare experience and one I have always wanted to do. Nothing big, one around 15 pounds on a rigged rubber eel and couple smaller on one of my homemade stubby needles. Legs, back took a beating. This morning had a couple cramps on the inside leg upper thighs, was a sweat ball one hour into it. the rocky cliffs, boulders and small rounds rocks are killers for an old fart like me but I would go back again tonight in a heartbeat if another invitation came. Mountain goat I am not but I gave it the old college try. Next time remeber to tape the ankles!

Thanks George!

[john hollenberg]

Hard not to keep going back though. The beaches are the same. The memories are there. It gets to be 5:00pm and you say to yourself tonights going to be different. Every once in awhile it is but there is a lot of casting in between.

[BigFish]

I Hate Seals!

[reelecstasy]

Hate is such a strong word

[Karl F]

Originally Posted by john hollenberg

Hard not to keep going back though. The beaches are the same. The memories are there. It gets to be 5:00pm and you say to yourself tonights going to be different. Every once in awhile it is but there is a lot of casting in between.

Well said, John

[bassmaster]

only roaches come out at night

[partsjay]

He's Alive!!

[kippy]

BM!

[Skitterpop]

Dave