{"id":52,"date":"2008-08-19T17:38:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T21:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/?p=52"},"modified":"2008-09-01T14:35:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T18:35:31","slug":"july-19-21-cape-cod-bay-what-a-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"July 19 – 21 Cape Cod Bay – What a Blast!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/a>Had a bit of a c<\/a>hange of pace this year on heading up to the Cape.\u00a0 Being a teacher I usually take the summer off and head up to the Cape for 4-5 weeks, but got a decent summer gig here in Annapolis and only got up to the Cape for about 11 days.\u00a0 Towed the Scout up with the family.\u00a0 We did some great boating, and excellent fishing.<\/p>\n

My brother John came up towards the end of our trip and we got out several times.\u00a0 First just the two of us, then added my daughter on Day 2\u00a0, then we took the wife out on Day 3.\u00a0 We pretty much fished\u00a0an area up near P-town\u00a0exclusively with a number of jigs and topwater plugs.<\/p>\n

Day 1 – Caught a few nice blues and small stripes.\u00a0 Nothing to significant…<\/p>\n

Day 2 –\u00a0John and I took my daughter out, and we had an absolute blast.\u00a0 Probably 10 nice blues from 3 – 8 pounds on light tackle (14 lb Yozuri Hybrid), and around 4 stripers, two being keepers (but 28-30″).\u00a0\u00a0 John’s got the pics, but will post later.\u00a0 It was my daughter’s first “real” Cape Cod fishing trip.\u00a0 Up at 4:30 am, down to Wellfleet Harbor, and making a run to P-town all by 5:15.\u00a0 She was a trooper, and she loved it.\u00a0 She caught about 6 fish, one being a 6-7 pound Blue, which definitely got her heart pumping.<\/p>\n

Day 3 – Woke up the next day to fish with John and my wife, and it was a nasty outlook for weather.\u00a0 We made the right call by heading out, but the run out was 30 mph winds from the W-SW and 5 foot waves.\u00a0 It was one of the most intense boating experiences I’d ever had, but man it was worth it. Once we got to the P-town area, it stopped raining, and the winds dies to 15 mph.\u00a0 We caught a few Blues right away, but then started marking schools of fish and bait that lit up the fishfinder.\u00a0 Messed around with lures (Sluggo’s, Ron – Z’s, and topwaters) for about two hours, and at that point we had 3 nice keepers in the box between 32-34″.\u00a0 Also landed about 6 more that were all keepers, with the smallest being 28-29″, but the largest was approx. 35-36 ” and around 15 lbs.\u00a0\u00a0 We even got a\u00a0 double header on one plug with blues, and had a tripleheader on Stripers (all keepers to boot!) at one point.\u00a0 Several double headers as well.\u00a0 I’ve posted a couple of pics, but John took the majority if them.\u00a0 We’ll post more later.<\/p>\n

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Here are some more pics from the race from that day and another day with Stephen’s eldest daughter (my niece):<\/p>\n

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Her comment: “It feels like a person is pulling on it”. She fought this and all the others all the way in.<\/p>\n

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Here’s Stephen’s beefy blue:<\/p>\n

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Here is the rest of Aug 21:<\/p>\n

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It’s always a nice scene when you have two mad beefy blue fish with six sharp treble hook points on LT.<\/p>\n

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Had a bit of a change of pace this year on heading up to the Cape.\u00a0 Being a teacher I usually take the summer off and head up to the Cape for 4-5 weeks, but got a decent summer gig here in Annapolis and only got up to the Cape for about 11 days.\u00a0 Towed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}