{"id":134,"date":"2010-05-13T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/?p=134"},"modified":"2010-05-13T23:40:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T03:40:59","slug":"may-13th-cape-cod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"May 13th – Cape Cod"},"content":{"rendered":"

The boat survived the winter. Batteries were re-installed, and the engine fired right up. I decided to go fishing to celebrate the fact that it took a lot less time than I expected to get the boat running. Wellfleet harbormaster was gone, so my drop was free today. I checked all the usual places in the harbor, and the shoal, and the bay. Nothing! There were reports of huge bait balls of sand eels. No eels, no birds. I went to the Brewster Flats to fish the drop off. Again, nothing. Everything moved west.<\/p>\n

I went by Sesuit, and on to Barnstable. There were many boats fishing in 30-40 feet at the outer entrance to Barnstable harbor from the bay. They were not catching during the 7-10 minutes I spent poking around.\u00a0 I decided to try the Jeff Smith Spot. It was a bad drift. One minute you are in 17 feet, the next you are in 2 feet.<\/p>\n

The spot was great, no one was there (although they were zooming by) and I caught 8 keepers and 2 small ones. The 4 big ones were about 34″ and very slim. The rest of the keepers were around 30″. Here is a picture of one big one we kept for supper.<\/p>\n

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The boat survived the winter. Batteries were re-installed, and the engine fired right up. I decided to go fishing to celebrate the fact that it took a lot less time than I expected to get the boat running. Wellfleet harbormaster was gone, so my drop was free today. I checked all the usual places in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}