Cape Ann Fishing

[Fly Rod]

This past week coastal fishing has been exciting. There are plenty of stripers along the coast most days, other days it is necessary having to drop anchor a dozen times, but when you find them you have a great time. Blues are still hit or miss, except when targeting other species and of course the blues cut your mono and you lose your hook.
There are football size giant blue fin tuna (50-100lbs.) just off the coast. It's a blast trying to get them to the boat when hooked on light tackle and it takes about 1-1/2 hrs. to boat.

When fishing for stripers along the coast you must be strict in the amount of time that you spend in any one spot trying to locate them. Give yourself no more then 15-20 minutes in any given striper habitat. I see some people stay in an area over an hour, a complete waste of time when not catching. the best way to locate is to go as slow as posible along the coast and sight fish for them before anchoring.

 

[rolmops]

Re: Cape Ann Fishing

Hello Captain Flyrod.
It is good to hear about your fishing adventures.
Neither Cape is for me so far this year.I hope to hit the stripers and footballs in September on Cape Cod and on Cape Ann hit the Haddock and Pollock in November.
The old 35 footer my friends and I bought will take a lot of work to become seaworthy.We plan on twin Perkins diesels but that will probably take us well into next year.Add to that the captain's license and the experience it takes to take her out to Cashes Ledge and it will probably be another 2 or 3 years before we can say that we are ready.Anyway for now I have to make do with salmon in Lake Ontario.Mostly 20 to 30 pounders at this time of year so I can't complain.

 

[Fly Rod]

Re: Cape Ann Fishing

Hi Rolmops!
Hope everything is fine with you and your family.

Sorry to hear that you haven't been salt water fishing for stripers this summer. The big fish have been hard to come by lately.

So you and a few freinds bought into a 35 footer. Sounds like a big restoration project for you fellas. You should post a few pictures of the boat every so often so that we can follow the progress.

20-30lb. salmon are good fish. How many of them do ya catch in a day? Must be like bass fishing, sometimes one, sometimes dozen. Do you troll for em.

 

[rolmops]

Re: Cape Ann Fishing

Hi Rolmops!
Hope everything is fine with you and your family.

Sorry to hear that you haven't been salt water fishing for stripers this summer. The big fish have been hard to come by lately.

So you and a few freinds bought into a 35 footer. Sounds like a big restoration project for you fellas. You should post a few pictures of the boat every so often so that we can follow the progress.

20-30lb. salmon are good fish. How many of them do ya catch in a day? Must be like bass fishing, sometimes one, sometimes dozen. Do you troll for em.

We are all well.
My daughter is in the Himalayas for climbing season,my other daughter switches between Amsterdam,Paris and Tel Aviv because of her work and both my sons are upstate in NY.
Yes we did buy an old lobster rig -mostly rust- but we are in the process of cleaning her up.When that is done we will fix her up.
I catch the salmon much deeper than stripers. But I use down riggers, dipsy divers and lead line or wire line rods.They fight a lot harder than stripers.Imagine a thirty pound blue fish.I often get a hit at one hundred feet over 200 of water.They try to loose the lure by diving down to the bottom and running forward under the boat while often spooling you.
Great lake fishing is much more wind and water temperature sensitive than your neck of the woods.With a northern wind we may get 70 degree water at 150 feet in the column,but with southern winds we often have 36 degree water all the way up to the shore even in mid summer.Things can change from one day to the next.