Thursday, February 9, 2012

How to Find Striped Bass and Fish the Cape Cod Canal

By Captain Ryan


After I have ensured that I have remembered to take my fishing equipment and bait, it's finally time to launch the vessel and commence trolling for striped bass.

Finding a great place to troll for striped bass with the tube and worm is the most challenging and vital aspect of tube and worm trolling. The very best gear, most effective tubes and juiciest sandworms will not catch even one striper if there are no bass in the region where you are trolling for striped bass. Therefore it's vital to construct a approach to finding prosperous areas, ahead of setting the lines and trolling for striped bass.

Full books have been drafted concerning how to find and how to catch striped bass . There is no uncertainty that moon phases, tides, weather patterns etc. all possess some kind of impact on exactly where striped bass go. The fact is that, where I go fishing in Cape Cod Bay, despite my best attempts, I have never managed to precisely foresee the location where the stripers will be based on any sort of variable.

Consider what occurred to me this past week as an example. As I publish this article, it is the middle of September and we've had a full week of continual east winds. This past Saturday the wind died to the point that it turned out dead calm. We went out on the water, located stripers in twenty ft of water within Cape Cod Bay, and reamined with them when they swam up tight to the beach. We had a fantastic night on the water, as we landed around 25 big striped bass close to 42 pounds.

Couple of days afterwards the same exact weather pattern happened once again. An onshore breeze diminished as evening approached. The weather was literally identical to during the prosperous excursion of two nights ago. The phase of the moon and tides were just right, and I had substantial desires for a repeat of the past trip. We discovered striped bass in the same place in 22 ft of water off of a well-known swimming beach. However the fish vanished, and failed to venture in tight to the beachfront. I looked all over for three hours with out marking a thing. We all departed for the marina having landed one striped bass-absolutely bewildered regarding the location where the bass had gone.

My point is that regardless of the very best approach, log book, and electronics, I'm often absolutely "bam-boozled" by stripers, as well as other species like giant tuna . As soon as I think I've the fish understood, they pitch me for a loop and bring me down again to Earth.

Using a reputable, correctly fitted, colour sonar device is surely an absolute must for that search strategy I normally employ. Generally there aren't any surface indications (breaking stripers, diving birds etc.) bringing me to the stripers, hence I needed to establish a strategy making use of my sonar and GPS that helped me to find the stripers that I believed were out there, somewhere, in Cape Cod Bay.

Furthermore , I needed a technique that would allow me to cover vast expanses of ocean quickly, thus it would be extremely important that my fish-finder read effectively at speeds above 20 mph.

Keeping this in mind, it is very feasible to produce a strategy that will continually provide a fantastic likelihood of experiencing fast striped bass fishing action. With a sound game plan, you might not definitely locate the fish, but you will definitely put yourself in a terrific place for having a terrific fishing trip.

Even if you fish in areas with structure or current, where bass are not spread out across vast distances, using some of the guidelines described at my fishing blog-myfishingcapecod.com-will certainly increase your odds of consistently catching big fish when trolling for striped bass.




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