Cape Cod Fishing Report: 6/1/2024
Wasque
If there is one thing that is consistent right now it’s the inconsistency of the wind direction that last several days and it looks like it is going to continue into this week. This morning, it was southeast, but it’s now gone around southwest before shifting to west tonight and northwest tomorrow in the AM and finally moving around to east in the afternoon. Later in the week, the forecast has winds out of the south for several days. With conditions changing all the time, it’s important to remember that wind direction and intensity in relation to current direction – in this case coming from opposing directions – can stand a rip line right up and create great fishing or if they are going in the same direction, this can flatten a rip right out.
With lots of high sunshine this weekend and a lack of bait right in the rips from what I gathered from a number of reliable sources, a lot of folks elected to make the run to Wasque where both tides continued to produce a lot of bass. The squid fleet that creates a cluster when they return to the Falmouth Harbor boat ramp around first light appear to be doing pretty well with their nighttime jigging activity and the waters down along East Beach and around the corner to the point are holding some good concentrations of squid and happy bass as well.
This area is a flyrodders delight as there is just so much water to swing a fly, as Bob Lewis and his nephews experienced today. One big advantage of the structure thereabouts is in places the current will move you from one rip line to another, giving the captain a chance to do some fishing as well rather than always running the boat to keep it positioned properly ahead of the rip.
Surface presentations are great no matter what type of equipment you are using, but putting the floating line/buoyant squid pattern – or popper or other surface plug if you are spin angling – away can pay dividends if you are marking fish holding near bottom. You can work a Hogy Pro Tail Paddle or the new Hogy Pro Tail Eel just like you would any other lure in a rip line, casting above the rip and then letting the jig swing down to the white water line and even well back where the rip starts to flatten out as the water begins to get deeper on the backside.
