By Striper Mike, Sports Port Pro Staff

Imagine walking the beautiful beaches of Cape Cod, viewing spectacular sunrises and sunsets while having the opportunity to catch powerful striped bass and bluefish - this is the world of a surfcaster. With a minimum investment of a rod, reel, a few lures and a good pair of walking boots you can get in on some phenomenal and memorable Cape Cod fishing. If you enjoy walking, learning to surfcast will be an experience you will never forget and if you hook into a drag screaming powerful fish it will be a wonderful forever memory. I offer 4 hour Surfcasting trips, incorporating proper instruction along the way - if you are interested please contact me at StriperMike@outlook.com For all your fishing needs, stop by the shop in Hyannis or Osterville and talk to Amy and her knowledgeable staff for the current fishing reports and remember, “if they don’t have it, you don’t need it.”
Here are a couple of highlights from a recent Surfcasting trip with Kevin & Louisa:

July 21st Fishing Report

Who caught that moonrise last week?

Moonrise

Monomoy seems to be holding strong as the go-to Striped Bass spot for our Southside boat anglers. Ben was out there on Friday and caught some schoolies along with some slot-sized bass on soft plastics and epoxy jigs. The fish were feeding on squid and sand eels. Nate was also fishing off Monomoy recently and was hooking up with 40” striped bass using pink soft plastics rigged on a 2oz jig head.

There are large schools of bunker from North of Boston all the way to Barnstable. These schools often have large bass feeding them. Our Cape Cod Bay boat anglers have been finding schoolies, slot-sized and bigger Stripers outside of Barnstable Harbor. If you can find the mackerel, live-lining has been working well. Trolling Bunkers Spoons has reportedly been successful. Casting soft plastics has also been doing to the trick.

Sports Port doesn’t heavily focus on the offshore fisheries so we know the tuna bite must be really good when we are starting to carry the bigger 3, 4 and 6oz resin jigs that have been working so well for that hot tuna bite!

Big Blues are still being caught out at the Horseshoe in Nantucket Sound. Trolling Bombers, SP Minnows or Rapalas are all reportedly working well.

Sharking on the Southside beaches at night is producing 5’ and 6’ browns. Dead eels has been the bait of choice.

Seaworms, squid and clams are keeping the Scup fishing from the Southside beaches going strong! Northern Kingfish are also being caught and some smaller fluke have been landed from shore as well.

Keep you fish pics and stories coming! Send them here.

Tight Lines!

Amy

By Striper Mike, Sports Port Pro Staff

The spring striped bass migration is well past completion and many of the striped bass visiting the Cape Cop beaches are settling into their summer mode. This now means the water temperature plays a very important role in locating these striped bass. Bass are most comfortable in 55 to 65 degree water temperature and in that range they can be anywhere and caught close to shore on any beach, however as we move into the warming temperatures of summer, the in shore waters quickly approach 70 degrees and warmer. Many of the striped bass retreat to the cooler and deeper water off shore and the charter boat Captains change their strategies to catch these off shore bass.

For our Surfcasting anglers, the early mornings and evenings are definitely the summer fishing times and the daytime hours are now reserved for golf and other activities but always are aware and looking for those cool, cloudy windy days when some stripers still venture in to our many beaches during the day time hours.

John enjoying an evening of surfcasting in Cape Cod Bay.

Enjoy your time on the water and if you don’t have the luxury of choosing specific fishing times, there is NEVER a bad time to be out fishing - get out there and enjoy the day and our beautiful Cape Cod environment.

Stop by the shop and check in with Amy and her staff at the Hyannis and Osterville stores and find out the latest fishing intel and remember “if they don’t have it, you don’t need it.”
- Striper Mike

Fishing Report 7/15/22

Fishing from shore is good….depending on what you want to catch. If you are happy with catching scup and northern kingfish then this is your time! smaller hooks, with some weight and bait and consider yourself ready for some tight lines. If you want striped bass well, that’s a different story. Shore anglers are getting them, but they are small.

Boater anglers are having a much better time catching good size fish. On the South side, Monomoy has been producing slot sized and bigger fish. We have heard of lots of different lures doing the trick: white and pink soft plastics, the yo-zuri hydro squirt (which is a great squid imitation) and squid teaser flies to name a few. We have heard fewer reports on the big bluefish at Monomoy.

Billingsgate has had lots of stripers, although reportedly lots of schoolies with some bigger fish mixed in. Resin and diamond jigs are working well out there.

Our first report of a bonito came in from Rick! Rick and his friend were jigging for mackerel on the Northside when they hooked up with their first funny fish of the season. They also managed to land some nice striped bass as well.

Sports Ports own, Ben, and customer Derek went out of Barnstable Harbor earlier this week and managed to hook up with some beautiful striped bass. They reported that white soft plastics were the secret sauce that morning.

Ben and Derek with their Northside Striped Bass

We hope everyone is getting out there and enjoying this beautiful sandbar that we call Cape Cod! If you have any fish pics we would love to see them and feature in our next fishing report. Send them to us here.

Tight lines everyone!

Amy and everyone at Sports Port