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Cape Cod has been one of the marquee saltwater fishing destinations since the Pilgrims landed on the Lower Cape. Anglers return year-after-year from April through November to fish for striped bass, bluefish, bonito, False albacore, Spanish mackerel, and school tuna. There is so much diversity and it is so close.Just over the Bourne and the Sagamore Bridges you’ll find all of the Buzzard’s Bay and Vineyard Sound hotspots. The first stripers arrive shortly after the herring come in (or the first full moon in April). Join Captain Todd Murphy and fish the South Cape Saltponds and beaches to the inshore Elizabeth Islands, and all the rips and rocky gardens along the way. Racer bluefish arrive sometime in early May, and so Captain Todd will take you fishing up and down the ocean side, including the famous fishing grounds of Chatham and the world-renowned Monomoy Island. The bay side flats get cranking around that time, too, | ||||||
and depending on where the fish are you’ll fish
the flats from Barnstable Harbor through Provincetown. In late Summer through the Fall, you’ll fish offshore for school bluefin tuna or on the South Side of the Cape for bonito and albies.
There is such a variety of types of fishing in such a small area. From rocks and ledges to rips to saltponds to river estuaries to flats and beaches. Come spend a few days or a week fishing with a Cape Cod native.Photo Credit Barry & Cathy Beck
