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March 13,
2008 Blog Entry : Julie |
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Hello all,
Here is a final report on this years coyote
season.
The season ran from October 13th to March 18
and the Goose Hummock Shop was a weight in station. This year 78 coyotes
were brought to the shop for tagging. Most of the towns in the lower cape
were represented in the hunt with coyotes brought in from Yarmouth,
Harwich, Dennis, Brewster, Chatham, Orleans, Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro and
Provincetown. Among the coyotes there were 34 females and 44 males. A
more detailed list is available at the shop.
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March 5,
2008 Blog Entry : Garrett - Julie |
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Hi Guys,
Just a report on our latest venture, the
Massachusetts Striped Bass Association tradeshow held at Stonehill College
last weekend.
This was our first trade show in many many
years and we kicked butt! The show came off without a hitch from the
setup to breakdown. We offered the show goers lots of bargains as well as
some of the newest products on the market, including an extensive
butterfly jigging section. We had some friends in the booth with us, Bob
from Local Hooker Rods as well as Ron from RONZ. Big thanks goes out to
them for all the help, and I can't leave out Tyler...whose marketing
efforts had everyone at the show sporting a Goose Hummock Bag!
Here are a few pictures and more can be viewed
at:
So, from a tired but happy tradeshow crew,
thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth and we hope to see you all at
our next show: the New England Salt Water Fishing Show in Providence Rhode
Island April 4th - 6th
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Jan 22,
2008 Blog Entry : Webmaster |
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60 minutes reported on the state of the
Bluefin Tuna industry......and it's not pretty
CLICK HERE to watch it in it's entirety. (about 10-12 minutes)
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Jan 14,
2008 Blog Entry : Webmaster |
First Goose blog of 08.
Here are some hopefully useful and interesting links for these dreary winter
days.....
2008 Massachusetts fishing , hunting, motorboat, atv, snowmobile and
recreational lobster permits can be renewed or purchased online......
CLICK HERE
Many new areas if Wildlife management in our area.....
CLICK HERE for the Maps.
We at the Goose are trying our hand at online commerce again. This time we
concentrate on items made on Cape Cod.
CLICK HERE for
our new slowly building web-store.
Also we have posted some Hap Farrell fishing videos that are both
informative and entertaining.... .
CLICK HERE.
News on Bluefin Tuna from NOAA.
CLICK HERE
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Sept 25, 2007 Blog Entry :
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The Season Winds Down, The Fish Wind Up
By: Capt. Hap
Farrell
This last Sunday, the 23rd of September,
was the first day of fall. This usually means the season here on Cape Cod
has pretty much come to an end. Fortunately for those who like to chase
the striped bass in Cape Cod Bay, the season is still in full swing.
Granted, there are only of few more days where the weather and the fish
will still cooperate, but right now they are.
This last Monday I had Barbara and Ed
Lagerstrom along with Mike Keleher, out on a half day trip. With only a
few boats out from Rock Harbor and the other harbors on Cape Cod Bay,
finding the fish was more than an educated guess. It wasn’t long before
the first big bass was on. Ed landed a nice 39 inch bass. The other boats,
who were in the same area, good guessing by all of us, started hooking up
also. By the end of the trip everyone was smiling at their catch of
stripers and rubbing their sore arms.
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Sept 17, 2007 Blog Entry :
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Why
Go Fishing?
By: Capt. Hap
Farrell
Why do people like to fish? Or better yet,
why should people go fishing? The way I see it, it’s because it is fun.
It’s fun to feel something pulling on a line you have attached to a rod
and reel and you fight with this fish until you get it in. Then you have a
choice to keep it to eat or release it. Most fish to enjoy the challenge
of the fight and release the fish, maybe keeping one for the dinner table.
A few days ago I witnessed two young women
who had never fished in salt water before and had never been on a
sportfishing boat ever. Catalina Visan and Diana Cojocnean, both from
Romania and in the exchange worker program, came fishing with me on a half
day trip. Catalina had fished with her father on a small lake before when
she was much younger. However, this type of fishing was brand new to both.
I watched the excitement in their eyes as they battled bluefish on light
action rods while we used the tube and worm method. Their screams,
giggles, and laughter was contagious. They will go back to Romania at the
end of September with stories of this adventure. They both worked three
jobs and had no real time to enjoy the summer, until now. This is why it
is good to go fishing.
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Sept 12, 2007 Blog Entry :
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Rock Harbor Fishing Report
By: Capt. Hap
Farrell
12 Sept. 2007
This is going to be the last Rock Harbor
Fishing Report for the season. Boy, has this summer gone by fast. The day
the ice cleared out of the harbor seems to still be fresh in my mind and
that is scary. It’s been a good summer over all. A bit windy in the
beginning and a few times we really had to hunt to find a decent amount of
bass, but it has been a good season. No real changes were noticed this
year other than the bass seemed to stay in the deep water a little more
than usual.
There is one thing that should be addressed
and it seems that it may take more than the phone calls that have already
been made. This is the sea clammers that are fishing on the shoals. As I
understand it they are not supposed to drag in less than 20 feet of water.
Even at high water the only part of Billingsgate shoals that is more than
20 feet is the southwest end down near the #1 can. What is happening is
the drag on the sea clammer is tearing up the seas grass beds. This eel
grass does not grow back easily when torn up by the roots. The striped
bass like to congregate in these grass patches and wait for the bait fish
to go by. Crabs and other sea creature hang out in these patches. It is an
ecosystem all to itself. Tear it up and the shoals will die as a viable
area of Cape Cod Bay. It would be like tearing up the coral reefs in the
Caribbean. It has to stop.
What is going to happen for the rest of
this season? There will be a good amount of bluefish that should stay
around well into October. The bass may even do the same. Last season we
thought that they left just before Columbus Day weekend when a front came
through. They did not. I hope they stick around this season too. The
bluefish were mainly up along the Eastham shore and the north edge of the
shoals out in the deep water and also up by the Path. The bass were on the
shoals and out in the deep water from 40 feet out to 50 feet. Jigging and
the umbrella rig were the lure systems of choice. Don’t forget the
Brewster Flats and just off the edge of the flats. There will be bluefish
here well into the fall with some legal bass mixed in with a fair amount
of small fish. In all it should be a good year for good fall fishing in
Cape Cod bay.
This last weekend was some of the best
fishing we had all season. On Saturday there was a multi boat trip set up
by David Ambrose through one of the boats in the harbor. They booked most
of the boats in the fleet. There was sort of a competition between the
crews for the biggest fish and the most inches of the biggest six of the
bass landed by each boat. We all started fishing on top of Billingsgate
Shoals and within a short time the words,”big fish on” came over the
radio. That started it, every boat started reporting hooking up on big
fish. The winning bass was 46 inches long and weighed over thirty pounds.
On Sunday I had Marge and Jim Giesler,
owners of Ocean Gold B&B, and their two kids Will and Rebecca out on a
half day trip. They only needed a few bass for the freezer so out came the
jigging rods. It wasn’t long before we had three nice bass in the boat so
we switched over to the tube and worm. Lady luck was not finished with
them. Rebecca hooked up on the really nice fish and after a good tussle
she landed a bass just shy of thirty pounds. Will and Rebecca will be
taking some good memories back to California after their visit is over but
the fish will be occupying Marge and Jim’s freezer.
Thanks for supporting me and reading these
reports of mine. I do get a lot of feedback from you, so have a good
winter and I’ll see you in the spring. There are still plenty of fish out
there, so if you’d like to try get one for yourself give me a call at:
508-255-6211 or 508-240-8267.
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Sept 5, 2007 Blog Entry :
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Rock Harbor Fishing Report
By: Capt. Hap
Farrell
5 Sept. 2007
Tourist
May Go, But the Fish Stay
The summer season may be coming to a close
but the fishing sure hasn’t. This Labor Day weekend was a fisherman's
dream. The Rock Harbor Fleet treated their anglers to some very good bass
fishing. The full day trips were a little more active but the half day
trips held their own. Some really big bass were landed. One party, fishing
on the Osprey, landed a bass that weighed in at a solid 53 pounds. Most of
the action was on Billingsgate Shoals either jigging or using the tube and
worm. I know on both of my trips the tube and worm system landed my
anglers a number of big bass some in the thirty pound class but most
between 18 and 22 pounds. The rest of the boats did the same. Hopefully
this will continue on a regular basis.
The month of September can give us some of
the best fishing of the whole season. The bluefish are as active as ever
and the water cools enough to bring large numbers of bass out of the deep
water and up on the shoals where we can find them easier. This doesn’t
happen every day, obviously, but much more frequently than during
mid-summer. The nights cool the water off and the bait comes up on the
shoals where both the bass and bluefish can get to them. The cooler water
perks up the larger bass so they are up with the rest of the fish and more
susceptible to us and our wily ways. There seems to be a worm hatch
happening now, making the tube and worm system more productive, which is a
good thing.
This time of the season Billingsgate Shoals
is the center of most of the striped bass activity. The shoals is a big
place, it’s over six miles long and a mile and a half at its widest. The
tides move across it pulling up the bait and the fish. This area is where
you should start anything of your fishing excursions. As far as numbers of
bluefish, I’d first try in along the Eastham shore up towards Sunken
Meadow then out in front of Great Island and up towards the Path out in
twenty feet of water. These areas will stay good right up 'til Columbus
Day Weekend.
The final Rock Harbor Tournament was held
on the 30th of August. The basic reason for holding these three
tournaments was to reacquaint the harbor to the newcomers to the Lower
Cape area. To show them what Rock harbor provides in the way of
sportfishing. These new summer visitors may not realize that we have some
of the best fishing in New England.
The winners are: Biggest Fish - Neil Ridly,
Second Biggest Fish - Martin O’Day, Smallest Fish - Hunter Meyer, Most
Fish Caught - Matt Sorando, Most Fish Lost - John Bode, Ugliest Fish -
Dwight Warren, Youngest Angler - Annie Sorando, and last but by no means
least, the Most Experienced Angler - Bob Hayes. The real winners are those
who will be telling their friends about that fish that got away when they
were out on a boat from Rock Harbor.
On Labor Day I took my wife, Annie, and two
of her friends out for some of this good Cape Cod Bay fishing. Annie and
Doris work at Snows and don’t get much time to fish during the summer. Jim
Ruland had done some fishing but was a little surprised when he landed a
nice 20 lb. bass. Doris Tardif had her hands full with a hard fighting
bluefish. Annie, who always gets the biggest fish, stayed true to form and
landed a nice 25 lb. bass. It looks as if we’ll all be eating bass well
into this winter.
There are still plenty of fish out there,
so if you’d like to try get one for yourself give me a call at:
508-255-6211 or 508-240-8267.
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Aug 29, 2007 Blog Entry :
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Rock
Harbor Fishing Report
By: Capt. Hap
Farrell
29 Aug. 2007
End
of the Summer Blitz
The summer season is coming to a close. It
seems many of our summer visitors have already left with many schools
starting early this year. This does not mean the fish have left too. Just
the opposite has happened. At the start of this last week schools of large
bass moved into the grass on the southern edge of Billingsgate Shoals. The
fishing was fantastic. This is something that will come and go for the
rest of our fishing season which will run into Columbus Day Weekend for
the most part. During that late summer and early fall we can have some of
the best fishing of the season. Especially concerning the striped bass.
Actually, starting last Sunday, we found
some large bass in the grass on the southeast section of Billingsgate
shoals. This is the first time we’ve seen this during this season. In
years past the first place we looked was there in the grass. Not so this
season. We got used to just steaming over this area and going straight to
the north edge or to the deep water to find any striper action. Jigging
was the method that worked best, However, in the grass, the tube and worm
will work very well. It takes a dedicated jigger to work the grass. It can
be hard on most anglers, plus you have to learn a slightly different
action to make the jig work the best. The tube and worm method is much
easier to do and just as productive when done correctly. Some of the bass
taken have exceeded 40 pounds.
The tube and worm was, as far as I know,
first used in Pleasant Bay many years ago. About ten years ago we tried it
here in Cape Cod Bay and it worked very well. Using it in the heavy grass
gave us the best results when the fish were there and they they were there
quite often. The best way to fish the tube and worm is by using lead core
line with a long leader. Lead core comes in a series of colors. Each color
is equal to 30 feet so when you set out three colors you have 90 feet of
line out. The basic rule of thumb is one color for every 5 feet of water
you are in. This is when you use the non-weighted tube. The worm comes in
when you place it on the hook of the tube. We believe it adds a scent to
the tube which will attract the fish to the tube. The tube itself makes a
slow spin as it is trolled through the water. It should be trolled at 1.5
to 2 knots through the water to be the most productive. As with any lure
system each fisherman will find the exact speed and line length that works
for them in each area. This system works in area where jigging is
difficult or the bottom is too irregular.
This last week I had Glen Kaufmann and his
three sons, one of their friends and his 14 year old daughter. The fishing
was good that day. Not great, we had to work for the bass but the bluefish
were coming fast and furiously. It was not more that 2 to 3 minutes and we
had a bluefish on. Now his daughter Emily, who had never been fishing
before, was a little reluctant to try jigging out. Once she was harassed
into trying this type of fishing she was hooked up on a fish. It acted
different than the bluefish and it wasn’t long before we noticed it was a
striper and one we could keep. She looked at her brothers and said she
could do better. Being a young lady of her word, she promptly hooked up on
and landed a striper just shy of 30 pounds.
If you like to get in on some of the good
late season fishing call me at: 508-240-8267 or 508-255-6211.
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Aug 22, 2007 Blog Entry :
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Rock Harbor Fishing Report
By: Capt. Hap
Farrell
21 Aug. 2007
Good
August Fishing
The month of August is usually a good month
fish wise in Cape Cod Bay. When the month first started it seemed things
had changed and we’d be looking at a slow time of the season. Fortunately
things changed for the better. A fair amount of larger bass have moved up
onto Billingsgate Shoals and made themselves available to us, the charter
fleet. The last of the three Rock Harbor Tournaments is being held on
Thurs. the 30th of August. It begins at 10:45 am. so if you’re not already
booked on one of our boats, give it a shot and sign up with Roxanne at the
booth.
We had the first heavy northwest wind of
the season. It did just what we wanted it to do. The next day, Sunday the
19th, the large stripers had moved up onto the shoals. They were on the
north edge and in the grass patches. There’s not a whole lot of fish but a
good amount that can be worked. Jigging and the tube and worm will both
work. Jigging is your best bet. Sunday the fish were moving around so you
would find them in many different areas as they moved. At times they can
allude you for a while. With a little patience you’d find them. Some of
these bass were near the 40 pound range.
The bluefish are still really active from
Henderson's Rock up to the Path. The most activity is up near the Path out
in 20 feet of water. Single hootchies and swimming plugs trolled at around
5 knots will work well. Plugging for them can also provide you with a good
number of bluefish. The Sunken Meadow area is quiet right now, however
there are some fish up by the #12 can leading into Welfleet Harbor.
The bass that are on the shoals now will
not stay there forever. In a few days they most likely will move off the
shoals and back into the deep water. This wind we had pushed most of the
bait elsewhere and it will take time for the bait to work its way back to
the shoals. Then we’re back to the same hunt we had before until the next
northwest wind. This time of the season we should get a few more big winds
that will push the fish into the shallow water of Billingsgate Shoals. One
reason August is a good month to fish Cape Cod Bay.
This last week I had a young lady and her
father on the full day trip. Usually Chris brings some of his friends plus
his daughter Emily. This was Chris’s last rip of the season and it was
just him and Emily. They both like to use my lighter tackle so that’s all
we used. The day started off slow. They landed a couple of small keepers
and good number of bluefish and a few undersize bass. Near the end of the
trip one of the other charter boats found some larger bass in one of the
grass patches on Billingsgate Shoals. We put out the light lead core rods,
18 pound test lead core, with the tube and worm and we started fishing the
area. Among the larger bass they landed was Emily's personal best since
she’s been fishing with me. It was a 38 pound striper. Not bad for a
thirteen year old young girl. On the next trip I had Jay Hayne, Nauset
Answering Service, and his party. We didn’t get a fish quite as big.
Theirs was around 34 pounds. They also landed a number of bass that were
in the 20 to 25 pound range. A good day on the shoals for everyone.
If you’d like to try and land one of those
big bass that could be swimming around on the shoals give me a call at:
508-255-6211 or 508-240-8267.
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Aug 21, 2007 Blog Entry :
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The Little Lady Strikes Again
By: Capt. Hap
Farrell
I’ve written about this young lady before.
Emily Ewen, who’s family summers in Orleans, has come fishing with me for
a few years now. She’s an avid soccer player but finds time to come
fishing with her father, Chris a number of times during the summer. She
has become an accomplished fisherman. At the young age of thirteen I’d put
her up against most any angler 3 times her age.
This last Sunday, the 19th of August, Miss
Emily beat her best mark as far as striped bass is concerned. Using my
light lead core set up, 18 lb test lead core on a soft action rod, she
landed this 38 lb striper with out any instruction from anyone. Her
personal best, for now...
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Aug 14, 2007 Blog Entry :
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Rock
Harbor Fishing Report
By: Capt. Hap
Farrell
14 Aug. 2007
We
Get the Wind & They Come Back
Last week I said we needed a fairly strong
northerly wind to push the bass back up onto Billingsgate Shoals. Well, we
got it. At the end of last week, after I had turned in the last report we
got a 10 to 20 NNW wind which pushed a good scattering of big stripers up
on the shoals. Some of these bass went as high as 35 to 40 pounds but most
were a good solid 36 to 40 inches in length and a respectable 20 pounds.
Jigging was the method of choice and actually the only way you could fish
with the weather we were dealing with. It was a sunny cool day with a
sharp northerly wind reminding you of early fall. A perfect bass fishing
day.
Over the years we, the charter captains at
Rock Harbor, welcomed a day off from a hard NW wind as a cold front would
move through. We also knew that the next day we’d find a lot of big bass
on the shoals and they’d stay there for a few days. Actually we have yet
to have a day like that. This last time the wind was more northerly than
northwest and it was fishable. The fish only stayed the one day in any
amount. As we look back to years passed there is a noticeable change in
the weather patterns and in the patterns the fish seem to be holding to.
Is this just a cycle this area goes through or is there something to this
global warming and the changes it will bring about?
Lately, most of the bass down near Rock
Harbor, Sesuit, and Barnstable Harbor are staying in the deep water in an
area called the “Square”. This area is about 3 miles west of Great Island
and a mile north of the shoals out in 45 to 50 feet of water at high tide.
The fish, both bass and bluefish, can be located by using your fish
finder. At that point, depending on whether they’re on the bottom or up in
mid-water, you use the appropriate method of trolling to hook up on them.
An umbrella rig with added weight on 150 ft. wire set up has been working
with good success on both fish. Those who want to jig need a wire rod set
up with 450 ft. of wire in order to get the jig to fish right. We all hope
they will move back to the shoals soon.
As far as the bluefish are concerned, there
are plenty to go around. Lately the main body of fish has been from
Henderson’s Rock just outside Great Island to just south of the Path. Get
in 15 to 20 feet of water and troll your hootchies at around 5.5 to 6
knots and hang on. At times it can be wild. There is also a fair amount of
bluefish in by Sunken Meadow. On the chart there is a rock southwest of
the Sunken Meadow area. During high water the rock is underwater enough
not to be worried about it. The bluefish are hanging around that rock.
Again, hootchies trolled at a fast rate of speed will work well. At times
you can cast to these fish also.
The beginning of this week I had a couple
of local fishermen out for a half day trip. One man, Will Chalmers, is
well known at the harbor when he’s seen walking his dog almost on a daily
basis. Sanford Hochman, a friend of Wills is from South Orleans and goes
fishing for the small tuna fish on the ocean side quite often. Anyway, I
had them out for the half day just to enjoy some of the action the bay can
provide. Will landed the two keepers we got. They weren’t big fish but
good dinner fair. Sanford had an opportunity to use some of my really
light jigging rods which were just put together a few weeks ago. The
fishing was good and enjoyed by both anglers.
If you’d like to try your hand at some of
this good August fishing call me at: 508-255-6211 or 508-240-8267.
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Aug 13, 2007 Blog Entry :
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Lewis
Bittle Takes On Cape Cod Bay, Again
By: Capt. Hap
Farrell
Many years ago, back in the 70’s and early
80’s two groups of fishermen, The Bluewater Anglers from Bermuda and the
Sea & Surf from Boston, held a three day tournament out of Rock Harbor. It
was usually in late August or early September and booked every charter
boat in the harbor. From this group of fishermen I got a group from this
tournament to book trips on there own. This group would have guys like Al
Johnson, Horace, Sunny and Lewis Bittle. After a number of years this
group got older with kids in college so after a while I didn’t hear from
them much more. Things have changed. They’re back.
Lewis called me a couple of weeks ago and
wanted to book a half day trip on the 9th of August. He wanted to get his
youngest son out, who as I remember was too young to go the last time I
saw them. Well, now he’s past the mark of a young man, he’s full grown.
The crew Lewis brought with him was Chuck & Herbert Chambers, long time
friends of the family, Marcell and Dante Bittle, and Jonathan Brome
another family friend. Even though they did bring a banana, lady luck was
on their side. They all were treated to some nice bass fishing with a
smattering of bluefish thrown in. A good time was definitely had by
everyone.
We as charter captains take many groups
fishing. At times certain groups stick out in our memories. In time they
may not come back for a while and whether they realize it or not they are
missed. Lewis Bittle and his buddies, Sunny, Al, Horace and the others are
like that. They are missed. It was good to see Lewis’s smiling face again
and I hope I won’t have to wait so long this time. It’s good to take
friends fishing.
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Aug 8, 2007 Blog Entry :
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Rock
Harbor Fishing Report
By: Capt. Hap
Farrell
8 Aug. 2007
Fish on
the Shoals
August fishing has started in earnest.
Given a normal season, we would expect to start seeing large bass moving
up on to Billingsgate Shoals, especially after a moderate to heavy
northwest wind. We have not had that kind of wind yet but there has been
an increase in the number of bigger bass caught either on the north edge
of the shoals or just up on top of the shoals. Jigging has been the method
of choice but a few fish have been taken on the tube and worm. Hopefully,
this is a good sign. This summer has been anything but a normal season.
It was just a week ago when all the real
good bass fishing was up by P-town. Lately, the boats out of our harbor
and others that have gone up there have seen the fish on their
fish-finders. Jigs, the tube and worm, and other methods just don’t
produce much in the way of a good catch. It’s like the fish have lock jaw.
These boats that make the trip come back to the shoals to land any amount
of legal size bass. Even the deep water off Billingsgate Shoals is
producing some nice fish, plus a good amount of bluefish.
Speaking of bluefish, the Path and south of
the Path is loaded. Just start at Henderson’s Rock, just off of Great
Island and head north. Troll your hootchies at 5 to 6 knots and you will
have all the fish you will ever want. You might even get a welcome
surprise by landing a bass or two. It has happened. I have not fished up
along the Eastham shore in a while. There could be a lot of bluefish there
also. I’d check that area out too. It’s a good place to both troll
hootchies and plugs and to cast for the bluefish.
There are different sizes to the tides in
this area. The smaller tides can run 8.2 ft. from low to high in the
height of the tide. It also can run up to 12.2 feet from low to high tide.
This means that during the bigger tides, 12.2 ft., the tides moves fast in
order to move the water in or out. This has a direct effect on the action
of the fish in certain areas. Take the area of Billingsgate Shoals. The
tide goes back and forth across the shoals. Therefore, during the bigger
tides the water moves faster and could move the bait and fish on and off
the shoals to a greater extent. During the up coming week the height of
the tides is decreasing slightly which hopefully means the tides will not
move the bait off the shoals as much as the bigger tides. Assuming the
fish, the bass and bluefish in particular, hang around where their dinner
is, these fish will not be all that hard to find. What we really need is a
small cold front to go through. Producing a short period of 10 to 20 knots
of a northwest wind over night, decreasing in the morning and by noon
pushing a ton of big bass up on the shoals. That’s what we need.
This last week I had the Ewens out for a
full day trip. Chris books a number of trips a season and has a thirteen
year daughter who loves to fish. Emily has landed fish using all the light
tackle I have on the boat and has done it with incredible ease. This last
Saturday we jigged the top of Billingsgate Shoals for most of the day. As
always Miss Emily was in the thick of it and did her share even with the
heavier gear. And, as always she landed the larger of the stripers we
caught. She topped her personal best by taking the biggest bass of the
trip which was a healthy 30 pounds. This young lady has turned into quite
the fisherwoman.
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Billingsgate Shoals Comes Alive
By: Cape Hap
Farrell
For the past three years I have taken a
young lady, Emily Ewen, fishing out of Rock Harbor. She is, by all
definition of the word, an avid fisherperson. She’s landed bluefish on
tournament grade 8 lb. test line as well as 2 lb test tournament grade
tackle. Emily has found both bass and bluefish on all of the light tackle
systems I have aboard the Stunmai II.
This last Saturday she had brought her
father and some of his friends. We were going to go up to P-town to see if
the bass were still active. We stopped on Billingsgate Shoals first to
check it out and didn’t have to go any further. We jigged most of the day
and Emily, as always, was in the thick of it. At thirteen, she seems to be
tireless. She not only landed the most fish, she took the two biggest fish
we caught that day. The biggest was a good healthy 30 pounds.
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