Fishing Reports

A lot of fish over the last few days. Provincetown Harbor, high tide, 5 ft of water, 34 incher on a sand eel. Staying over in the Bay, the area between Whites Village going towards Ptown, at high water people throwing chunks and or swimmers got their share of keeper bass.

Boat – yesterday and today, in the early morning way down the backside, acres of bass on the surface. Also a lot of bluefish mixed in. Yesterday afternoon on our charter, big stripers hugging the bottom on the Herring Cove Bath House line.

Bass from the boats slowed the past few days, very sporadic, word is the fish went down to Wellfleet, Billingsgate Shoals due to the direction of the winds. Some bass from Race Pt beach on Saturday, not a lot but some, Diawa SP minnows the key.

Big story – 669 pound blue fin tuna caught from a boat near Wood End. They were trolling umbrella rigs on forty pound test wire line looking for stripers when the tuna attacked, they played it very well and harpooned it from the front of the boat – check out photo’s on our website and face book page.

Weather certainly going to put a damper on the boats, at least if predicted winds hold true! BUT, should be good for the shore fisherman, all the bait getting pushed up onto the beaches and hopefully fish following it!

Conflicting reports on the boats – some people go out and do squat, some go out and kill them. Thinking time of day, time of tide, being in the right spot at the right time, and specific bait or method – stars have to be aligned and you have to have patience. Some people trolling sebiles, diawa sp, bombers etc on spinning gear are hooking up. Vertical jigging still working if you can find the schools and stay on top of them.

Beach, people came in and said they still see the fish migrating by, a lot of times in the wash, hard to figure out exactly what they will eat though – heard of fish following the lure right up into a foot of water and then turning their noses up and scooting.

Sorry about the three day absence! Big storms on Friday, stirred up the waters in a bad way, Sat fishing very slow. Sunday a little better, a lot of boats out but with a slow pick vertical jigging or even wire line. We had a few less than stellar charters to say the least, but did manage a few fish. Today was just a bit better, nothing to write home about, but there were still fish in the box. Did see more fish caught today then yesterday, so the bounce back from the storm is getting better. Earlier in the morning the better, as JB went out very early this morning and did very well at Wood End with pencil poppers, I think they got 8 or more keeper size bass.

Most of the reports from boat fisherman, as the stripers continue to stick around the rips – Wood End and Race Pt primarily, and vertical jigging is the ticket, although some have seen topwater action as well. A few blues mixed in too! Tuna action seems to have moved south, more towards Chatham than up by Peaked Hill.

Heard from a lot of people today – they smashed them from Long Pt to Wood End to Race Pt on the boats – top water action as well as vertical jigging. Some bluefish off of the Race Pt beaches as well – a lady weighed in a 9 lb 12 ouncer.