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

Lots of bluefish in Nantucket Sound in the Osterville, Cotuit and Hyannis area.

The seabass fishing has been great using squid as well as gulp rigged on jigs. Colliers and Wreck Shoal have been producing some good fish. Squid on rigs and Gulp on jigs!

Anglers going for Scup have not been disappointed. The boats in Nantucket Sound have been catching lots and good sized fish as well. The scup in the canal have apparently been huge.

Striped Bass fishing continues to be strong with good sized fish from Buzzards Bay to Hyannis. On the Northside, the striper reports also remain solid. Top water lures, which are so fun, are reportedly the winning choice.

Nice catch Dean!

Dave with his dinner

On the freshwater side, it seems trout has slowed (or maybe anglers are distracted by all of the saltwater action). Largemouth bass have been hitting on crankbaits, chatter baits and always the rubber worms.

Tight lines!

Amy