This time of year, you can expect to find striped bass, bluefish, sea bass, porgy and even fluke on the sandy shoals of Nantucket & Vineyard Sound. Learn how Capt. Mike approaches mixed-bag summertime fishing trips in this video shot before work in mid July on the 243 Everglades CC.
Fish: bluefish
Join Capt. Terry Nugent as he attempts a fall grand slam (blues, stripers, albies and bonito) off the coast of Cape Cod in early October.
Capt. Mike gives a few tips for trolling at Horseshoe Shoal including how best to jig the SI Perfect Squids, and how to drop back on fish if they’ve missed the hook.
White and other light colored pencil poppers have been effective during the early morning topwater bite between the car bridges, mainly due to the big squid that sometimes have tubes up to 10 to 12-inches long, with some sharpies also super loading Cotton Cordell pencils with as much as four to six ounces of lead to make them swim subsurface.
Vertical jigs are an excellent way to target fish holding in deep water. They are effective on nearly all species…
We filmed this while jigging over big schools of bluefish off Gay Head. We were jigging with a “Sand Eel” colored 3.5oz…