Cape Cod Fishing Reports

Cape Cod Fishing Report: June 6, 2024

Cape Cod Canal – Buzzard’s Bay

Earlier today, I stopped over at Canal Bait and Tackle in Sagamore to catch up with Jeff Miller and he reported that after the bite tailed off in the Cape Cod Canal– especially around the Sagamore Bridge – as the east current began to slack mid-morning, a bunch of folks who had been in on the bite – both on plugs and jigs – came in to restock to fish the turn. Green mackerel was definitely the hot color, with some folks opting for loaded plugs.

At 5:18 PM, Jeff texted that about an hour into the east turn, the west end had turned on big time. There’s a very good chance that the large number of mackerel that had moved in around the east end had made it to the other end of the Big Ditch with the west current, perhaps driven by the bass. Or maybe the schools of pogies that were seen working their way into the west entrance had been pushed in from Buzzards Bay by stripers holding in that body of water.

In any case, perhaps due to east wind and cloudy, cool conditions, a lot of fish were caught on paddletail jigs, including Jeff’s Canal Bait Shad in wacky mackerel.

Cape Cod Fishing Reports: June 6, 2024

The Canal – Monomoy – Outer Cape – Nantucket Sound

The Canal

Cape Cod Fishing Report: 6/5/2024

Nantucket + Vineyard Sound – Buzzards Bay – The Canal

Another great day of fishing here on Cape as the shoals in Nantucket and Vineyard Sounds continue to produce fish – albeit in a way that many people avoid at all costs! Bigger black sea bass (BSB) are being caught in greater numbers, although if you fish many of the more popular, named locations rather than having worked on discovering patches of hard bottom that have produced big males in the past, you are still going to pick through a lot of shorts. Finally, more bluefish are being reported and they are big.

NANTUCKET AND VINEYARD SOUNDS

I had the chance to catch up with a couple of well-known charterboat captains in Falmouth Harbor this morning and they confirmed that there are good numbers of bigger bass within a short distance of the mouth of the harbor – if you are willing to jig wire and the pig-and-jig. Capt. Willy Hatch was surprised that I was making the longer run to the backside of the Vineyard, but the reality is that some of the inshore shoals such as Nobska, Hedge Fence, and Middle Ground have slowed in terms of topwater action, perhaps a function of the water getting water and the amount of pressure these fish have seen.