The weather improved this week. The saltwater fishing did not. Fewer and fewer reports of stripers said Jacob and Jeff at Red Top. There’s still a few tog being caught, but even they’ve moved deep. The lack of tog reports is more from a lack of angler effort, however.
The freshwater species are still fired up, however. Evan at Eastman’s reported plenty of rising trout at Grew’s Pond. If Grews is producing, you can bet that the larger trout ponds of Peter’s, Cliff, and Sheep are fishing well.
Gold spoons, stickbaits, and jigs are all catching right now. As water temperature drops, I tend to do better with stickbaits and jigs, though I’ve known fishermen who say there’s never a need to switch from spoons when fishing the Cape ponds for trout. I like the jigs and stickbaits, because I can fish them slower, with longer pauses. The Rapala Countdown has long be my favorite because it sinks slowly on the pause, instead of floats. While the trout are feeding near the top now, that will change sometime next month.
Eddy Stahowiak and I had a couple good mornings targeting bass and pickerel. We didn’t catch any lunkers, but 2 to 3 pound bass and pickerel to about 20 inches made for a good start to the day.
We caught the bass on Rat-L-Traps and live shiners, and the pickerel on jerkbaits.
It’s just about time to start looking for smallmouth schooled up over deep points and humps, where they can be caught on drop shot rigs or blade baits. This fishing feels a lot like bouncing bottom for sea bass or fluke—the difference is, neither a fluke nor sea bass will streak to the surface and jump a couple feet into the air like a smallie.
Fishing Forecast for Cape Cod
Time to switch to sweetwater. Get your trout rod and bass gear and hit the ponds. Lures are working well, but shiners will be a sure thing.
Thx for the inspiration to go out this weekend Jimmy! !
Haven’t recieved a report from you guys all month until today.
Thx and i also have been producing well with the countdown at our cape ponds.