Cape Cod Canal Fishing Spots: The 10 Best Striper Hot Spots
The Cape Cod Canal is among the East Coast’s uppermost striped bass fishing hotspots. Montauk, NY may be the sole area on Earth eclipsing the Cape Cod Canal in terms of productivity and popularity with surfcasters.
The Canal is one of only several areas down the striper coast where folks fishing from shore consistently hook into 20, 30, 40 and occasionally 50 and 60 plus pound striped bass. Stories of bigger fish hooked and lost routinely filter into bait shops and online fishing forums.
Unfortunately there is an enormous learning curve with regards to consistently finding and catching big bass from the “Big Ditch”. Understanding the tides, techniques, and productive spots often requires decades of effort.
Sometimes it seems as if anybody who can toss a plug or jig greater than 20 feet can catch a significant fish out of the Canal. During the past few seasons these legendary bass blitzes have usually occurred throughout the spring. The striper fishing throughout these times is often fast and furious.
Yet for almost all of the fishing season, the sole fishermen hooking big stripers with consistent success will be the fishermen hitting the right fishing spots at the best tide. If you miss the tide, or fish a few yards in the wrong direction, you often miss the bite. This knowledge often takes many seasons of time and experience in order to acquire.
The majority of these hot spots feature some kind of bottom structure. Massive rips, gulleys and boulder strewn peaks carpet the full stretch of the Canal. Many of these spots feature significant depth changes of up to 25 feet in just a manner of a yard or two.
There is no scarcity of productive fishing spots along the Canal. I have a list of nearly twenty-five unique holes which I pick and choose from when creating a trip to the Canal. Yet I’d be phibbing if I told you that all of those holes fishes equally well.
The true secret to catching a lot of stripers at the Canal lies in the angler’s capacity to locate the best fishing spots. The most productive places in the Canal typically feature significant rips, holes, and rocky peaks that bass flock to like bees to honey. The following guide shows you the actual locations of 10 of the best Cape Cod Canal fishing spots. Just as essential, the guide explains which tides fish best at each and every spot. Diagrams, photos and yardages to the rip, gulleys, peaks and holes are also included.
It typically takes decades of experimentation in order to crack the Canal code and find which spots produce and which spots do not. Often times the difference between catching and not catching fish can be measured by only a few yards. The 10 Best Cape Cod Canal Fishing Spots eBook explains to you when and where you should fish according to the tide and structure at each spot.
The 10 Best Cape Cod Canal Fishing Spots eBook contains:
Accurate locations (to the yard) of rips, holes and rocky peaks
The exact yardage each rip, hole and rocky peak is from the rip-rap
Helpful diagrams and pictures showing the best places to cast from
Instructions on how to direct your cast in a spot that will bring your lure or jig through the strike zone
Info for the best tides for each and every spot and why particular tides produce more big bass than others
In-depth explanations of the structure situated in each spot
Head over to the My Fishing Cape Cod blog for your copy.