Cape Cod Fishing Report- June 1, 2023
Big sea bass and scup entertain the bottom fishing crowd, bluefish are here in numbers, and stripers are on the move as the June full moon approaches.
Big sea bass and scup entertain the bottom fishing crowd, bluefish are here in numbers, and stripers are on the move as the June full moon approaches.
Sea bass season is off to a great start with big scup in the mix, 30-pound stripers pass through the Canal and flood Cape Cod Bay, and bluefish arrive en masse around Upper Cape.
Stripers chase pogies, mackerel, squid and herring, bruiser blues gorge on bunker, scup fishing is on fire and sea bass season opens this Saturday.
Big bluefish reach Buzzards Bay, 30-pound stripers chase mackerel and pogies in the Canal, and freshwater fishing is about as good as it gets.
Herring, squid, bunker and spearing have hungry stripers being selective as the cinder worm spawn approaches, and tautog fishing is good in the Canal and Buzzards Bay.
Stripers to 30 inches hit the Canal, squid flood the waters around Hyannis and there is good tautog fishing to be had in Buzzards Bay.
A successful kid's fishing festival kicked off the spring fishing season for a new generation of anglers.
There's good tautog fishing from shore, broodstock brown trout are providing big freshwater fun and schoolie bass are pushing closer to Cape Cod by the day.
Herring and bunker file into Cape waters amid rumors of squid in the area, big bass bite well in the ponds, and tautog fishing picks up steam.
Herring flooded south Cape this week as shops stocked up on green crabs; in the ponds, largemouth bass fishing improved as the trout-stocking craze waned.