The Best Cape Cod Canal Striper Strategies

By Ben Johannsen

Fishing the Cape Cod Canal after dark can be a fantastic and sometimes downright spooky undertaking. There is absolutely no absence of unusual characters, creatures and weird noises down the rip-rap after dark. Even so if you’d like to dramatically enhance your odds of reeling in a substantial bass from the Big Ditch, then hitting up the Cape Cod Canal during the night will indeed be right up your alley.

The night time angling for the Canal begins to develop with the advent of the initial real big striped bass. Ordinarily by Memorial Day substantial bass have settled back into the Canal-this is when the evening fishing actually starts to turn on. At this moment of the season, nightime outings are often hit or miss proposition as massive bio masses of stripers move via the Cape Cod Canal right into Cape Cod Bay. In other words, you may land stripers one evening and then fail to entice a single bite the next. As soon as the following push of large bass swims in through Buzzard’s Bay the after dark fishing starts to produce yet again.

By the end of June and early July the evening bite will become a bit more steady. The bulk of the striped bass population has settled firmly into their summer seasonn haunts, which often makes Canal fishing a great deal less hit or miss. It is very possible to hook sizeable striped bass every single night of the week, considering you can focus on the best Canal fishing spots.

The vast majority of the stripers that are caught after dark are hooked on bait, jigs and subsurface lures. Pedaling along the service road, hunting for breaking bass is clearly not a possibility. Having a solid understanding of the best locations and tides is far more important when fishing the Canal after dark than when fishing during the day.

The majority of major striped bass hooked at night are taken out of holes, rips and close to pieces of structure. Targeting these regions will radically increase your prospects of tying into a big fish.

Bouncing jigs directly on the bottom in these spots, or swimming a lure or eel over a rip is a simple way to catch the attention of a beautiful striper. Countless Canal anglers opt to cast artificial lures when the tide is moving, and then turn to live or chunk bait during slack tide. A handful of the biggest stripers ever caught in the Canal have been taken on a piece of bait fished on the bottom during the course of a nighttime slack tide.

Dependant upon what the biomass of stripers elect to do, September and October at the Cape Cod Canal could be either fantastic or discouraging. If a bio-mass of stripers decides to swim through the Canal during their southerly migration, then the night fishing at the Canal will be excellent. But if the primary body of stripers opts to travel around the Outer Cape on their migration, then Cape Cod Canal anglers will be out of luck.

Nevertheless even during slow years fishing the Canal at night for striped bass during autumn can result in many significant striped bass. As always, focusing on fishing the most productive Canal fishing spots during the most productive tide is the most important component for Cape Cod Canal striped bass fishing success.

Captain Ryan Collins fishes for striped bass and Bluefin tuna off Cape Cod, MA. Visit his blog, myfishingcapecod.com for insider tips about Cape Cod Canal and giant tuna.

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