Vacation

[Jschumacher]

I met a girl down there once...7 years later I am still with her!   . Jeff, nothing better than when it turns on without warning! 


So you know what I mean LOL. Thats awesome Jon. Your right when you go from casting over and over with no hits to Slam!!! and the water is all turned up from moving fish. Or better yet watching the fish coming in you direction traveling down the ditch knowing its about to heat up. That's canal fishing.

[elevatorman]

Good luck Jeff  enjoy your vacay 

[Knot there yet]

I thought about moving my cape week to this week but next week I'll be there. Snag and drop going on this week on north shore. I got 3 ,30lbs fish Saturday and one 27lbs on Sunday. Gonna be tough heading down there when fishing is red hot up here. I'm always torn when it comes to leaving fish to find fish. One bait bit in half means the blues are here too.
 I'll be checking see what you get.Hopeing for good weather and good fishing for you.

[westernmas]

Was the vaca that good that you don't want to let any secrets out or that bad that you don't even want to relive it?  I was looking forward to a nice long report.

[lowaccord66]

One thing is for sure, if he crushed it, we'd probably know by now.  I didn't make it down this year.  First time in 7 years I skipped that weekend at the ditch. 

[Jschumacher]

One thing is for sure, if he crushed it, we'd probably know by now.  I didn't make it down this year.  First time in 7 years I skipped that weekend at the ditch. 

It was a good weekend to skip. I fished countless hours biking up and down the canal over the coarse of 9 days. Lost a blue and the body to my savage eel the 1st day and then not a hit the rest of the time. Fished hours like 2:00am until 10:00am. Back out at say 5:30pm until 8:30pm. East end, West end, Mid cape. all the usual hotspots for this time of year and the unsuppecting spots I hit. Talked to many of the locals at least those that were out there and most had not seen a fish in a couple weeks. You know fishing is slow ( well dead ) when you see very few canal crusiers along the ditch that week. Heard 1 of the locals ran a tournament. Had 60 entrees and only 1 fish was caught. Never saw any bait in the canal and only saw a couple fish break. Tried jigging mostly as I usually do but did through some plugs and a couple metals. Should have gone back and got the boat as I did talk to a few guys and the Fluke bite was on at Clevelends Ledge. There's my report. No fish caught no pictures to share. I'll make a trip back down when I hear the bite is back on. Off to Loudon for the races now

[lowaccord66]

Nice write up Jeff.  The canal can be some of the most fickle striper fishing there is, specifically this time of year.  Very surprised to hear there was no jig bite.  Usually there will be some resident bass that are gorging on lobsters and crabs that fall to the jig...sometimes they are very large!

[westernmas]

Thanks for the report.  I'm hoping to get back out there soon.

[Knot there yet]

I put in50-60 hrs in myself. Herring River area only one schoolie all week. Did catch the biggest sea robin I've ever seen on a 3/4 oz. rattle trap. Usually get some blues this time of year. I gave up and went golfing and fr sh water fishing.  

[lowaccord66]

Im headed down tomorrow night...

[TT]

Good luck!

[lowaccord66]

Good luck!

Thanks bud, I think Ill do ok 

[capedeer/fish]

Jeff....sorry not to get back to you...my phone was down. This week has been GREAT!

[lowaccord66]

Thunder is slowing me down...fish are around but I am forced to sit and wait a decent storm out...

[Jschumacher]

Jeff....sorry not to get back to you...my phone was down. This week has been GREAT!

No problem Colby. I'll be down again several times. Got races at Loudon next weekend then nothing planned until the end of August with Bill and Kevin when we go to Ontario. Still some big ones out there for me . I'll be in touch