Fishing the Cape Cod Canal after sunset is truly a interesting and sometimes downright eerie experience. There's certainly no absence of entertaining characters, animals and bizarre noises along the rip-rap in the evening. However if you want to greatly increase your prospects of landing a significant striped bass from the Big Ditch, then hitting up the Cape Cod Canal after dark will indeed be right up your alley.
The night time angling for the Canal begins to develop with the advent of the initial real big striped bass. Ordinarily by Memorial Day substantial bass have settled back into the Canal-this is when the evening fishing actually starts to turn on. At this moment of the season, nightime outings are often hit or miss proposition as massive bio masses of stripers move via the Cape Cod Canal right into Cape Cod Bay. In other words, you may land stripers one evening and then fail to entice a single bite the next. As soon as the following push of large bass swims in through Buzzard's Bay the after dark fishing starts to produce yet again.
By the end of June and early July the evening bite will become a bit more steady. The bulk of the striped bass population has settled firmly into their summer seasonn haunts, which often makes Canal fishing a great deal less hit or miss. It is very possible to hook sizeable striped bass every single night of the week, considering you can focus on the best Canal fishing spots.
Almost all of the big bass that happen to be hooked after dark are taken on bait, jigs and subsurface lures. Traveling along the service road, seeking surface feeding striped bass is of course not an option. Having a solid understanding of the worthwhile locations and tides is more crucial when fishing the Canal in the evening then when fishing in the daytime.
The overwhelming majority of huge bass hooked through the night are taken out of holes, rips and all around parts of structure. Targeting these regions will substantially increase your probability of tying into a big fish.
Bouncing jigs directly on the bottom in these spots, or swimming a lure or eel over a rip is a simple way to catch the attention of a beautiful striper. Countless Canal anglers opt to cast artificial lures when the tide is moving, and then turn to live or chunk bait during slack tide. A handful of the biggest stripers ever caught in the Canal have been taken on a piece of bait fished on the bottom during the course of a nighttime slack tide.
Dependant upon what the bass decide to do, September and October at the Cape Cod Canal may be either remarkable or discouraging. If a bio mass of striped bass opts to move through the land cut during their travels south, then the after dark angling at the Canal will be stellar. On the other hand if the primary body of stripers decides to swim around the Outer Cape on their migration south, then Cape Cod Canal fishermen will be out of luck.
Having said that, even during slow autumns fishing the Canal at night for striped bass during the fall can produce substantial striped bass. As always, focusing on fishing the right Cape Cod Canal fishing spots during the best tide is the most important component for success.
The night time angling for the Canal begins to develop with the advent of the initial real big striped bass. Ordinarily by Memorial Day substantial bass have settled back into the Canal-this is when the evening fishing actually starts to turn on. At this moment of the season, nightime outings are often hit or miss proposition as massive bio masses of stripers move via the Cape Cod Canal right into Cape Cod Bay. In other words, you may land stripers one evening and then fail to entice a single bite the next. As soon as the following push of large bass swims in through Buzzard's Bay the after dark fishing starts to produce yet again.
By the end of June and early July the evening bite will become a bit more steady. The bulk of the striped bass population has settled firmly into their summer seasonn haunts, which often makes Canal fishing a great deal less hit or miss. It is very possible to hook sizeable striped bass every single night of the week, considering you can focus on the best Canal fishing spots.
Almost all of the big bass that happen to be hooked after dark are taken on bait, jigs and subsurface lures. Traveling along the service road, seeking surface feeding striped bass is of course not an option. Having a solid understanding of the worthwhile locations and tides is more crucial when fishing the Canal in the evening then when fishing in the daytime.
The overwhelming majority of huge bass hooked through the night are taken out of holes, rips and all around parts of structure. Targeting these regions will substantially increase your probability of tying into a big fish.
Bouncing jigs directly on the bottom in these spots, or swimming a lure or eel over a rip is a simple way to catch the attention of a beautiful striper. Countless Canal anglers opt to cast artificial lures when the tide is moving, and then turn to live or chunk bait during slack tide. A handful of the biggest stripers ever caught in the Canal have been taken on a piece of bait fished on the bottom during the course of a nighttime slack tide.
Dependant upon what the bass decide to do, September and October at the Cape Cod Canal may be either remarkable or discouraging. If a bio mass of striped bass opts to move through the land cut during their travels south, then the after dark angling at the Canal will be stellar. On the other hand if the primary body of stripers decides to swim around the Outer Cape on their migration south, then Cape Cod Canal fishermen will be out of luck.
Having said that, even during slow autumns fishing the Canal at night for striped bass during the fall can produce substantial striped bass. As always, focusing on fishing the right Cape Cod Canal fishing spots during the best tide is the most important component for success.
About the Author:
Captain Ryan Collins fishes for striped bass and Bluefin tuna off Cape Cod, MA. Visit his blog, myfishingcapecod.com for insider tips about how to catch striped bass and giant tuna.
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