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

This morning I had the opportunity to get out on the water with my friend and fishing buddy Stan along with his fishing buddy Mike. We initially encountered a solid bluefish blitz and worked that for a while and did catch some blues and one striped bass. The goal this morning however was to target fluke and black sea bass so we moved on leaving plenty of fish behind. After we began our drifts jigging for these fluke and seabass we realized we made the right decision. We were hooking into fish every drift and constantly getting hits on our jigs and finally after a couple of hours of solid fishing the tide was at it’s end and it was time to go home. Hooking into 24 inch fluke and 23 inch seabass along with many over slot ones definitely made this a morning fishing trip to remember.

With the summer season here, now is the time to get “fishing ready” and take advantage of all the Cape’s ponds and magnificent surrounding ocean with the proper fishing gear for your Cape Cod fishing adventure.

Stop by Sports Port in Hyannis or Osterville and let Amy and her staff outfit you with the latest equipment and local knowledge for the variety of fish species here on Cape Cod and remember “if they don’t have it, you don’t need it.”