I've experienced a great winter season, so I hope you have enjoyed a happy and enjoyable winter season. I've got my fingers crossed that this winter's warm weather conditions are going to bode very well for the upcoming 2012 striped bass fishing season. With a little luck the winds is going to be calm and the bass will be numerous.
The very first Cape Cod fishing reports of migrating striped bass will start off coming in about thirty days from today. Years ago when I was much younger we'd catch our earliest striped bass of the season in the Weweantic and Agawam Rivers in Wareham. The month of April was and still is the best time of the year for these particular places.
Additional early season Cape Cod fishing spots also include various estuaries and saltwater rivers in Buzzard's Bay, in addition to the estuaries and harbors down the south-side of the Cape. Bluefish can be caught at the outset of May off South Cape and Popponesset. A lot of these spring blues will most likely be eating squid, making for enjoyable topwater fishing prospects.
The first few striped bass of the season are generally on the tinier side. Having said that much larger striped bass will arrive by the first week of May. Buzzard's Bay has produced quite well in the past few springs for anglers that can locate the birds utilising radar. Sometimes these large schools of stripers carry on northward throughout the Cape Cod Canal and into Cape Cod Bay.
Speaking of spring migration routes, MarineFisheries has released some interesting findings from a striped bass tagging study that began back in 2008. Out of 128 striped bass caught and tagged from Stellwagen Bank, 74% used the Cape Cod Canal during their annual northwardly spring migration.
Interestingly enough only 35% of these bass used the Canal during their annual southwardly fall migration. This study coincides pretty well with what Canal fishermen have been observing all along. Great spring time fishing, followed by somewhat disappointing fall runs.
We'll have to hold on and see precisely what the 2012 Cape Cod fishing season brings!
The very first Cape Cod fishing reports of migrating striped bass will start off coming in about thirty days from today. Years ago when I was much younger we'd catch our earliest striped bass of the season in the Weweantic and Agawam Rivers in Wareham. The month of April was and still is the best time of the year for these particular places.
Additional early season Cape Cod fishing spots also include various estuaries and saltwater rivers in Buzzard's Bay, in addition to the estuaries and harbors down the south-side of the Cape. Bluefish can be caught at the outset of May off South Cape and Popponesset. A lot of these spring blues will most likely be eating squid, making for enjoyable topwater fishing prospects.
The first few striped bass of the season are generally on the tinier side. Having said that much larger striped bass will arrive by the first week of May. Buzzard's Bay has produced quite well in the past few springs for anglers that can locate the birds utilising radar. Sometimes these large schools of stripers carry on northward throughout the Cape Cod Canal and into Cape Cod Bay.
Speaking of spring migration routes, MarineFisheries has released some interesting findings from a striped bass tagging study that began back in 2008. Out of 128 striped bass caught and tagged from Stellwagen Bank, 74% used the Cape Cod Canal during their annual northwardly spring migration.
Interestingly enough only 35% of these bass used the Canal during their annual southwardly fall migration. This study coincides pretty well with what Canal fishermen have been observing all along. Great spring time fishing, followed by somewhat disappointing fall runs.
We'll have to hold on and see precisely what the 2012 Cape Cod fishing season brings!
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