So I was on vacation from 7/31 until yesterday (back in the office today...
). I left western mass really early on 7/31/14 and was fishing the ditch by 6:45AM. I fished steadily until about 9:30 with no luck. I returned to the ditch on a rainy Sunday evening and had the same results (fished from about 3 - 8PM). I think I was the only person on the shore that didn't hook into a striper on Sunday. The place was packed with more fisherman than I have ever seen at the ditch. It was worse than the Salmon River. However it seemed like from 6:30 to 8 PM the surface action turned on and everyone and their brother caught a real nice cow, except for me. It seemed like any popper with red in it was getting a strike but my limited selection of saltwater lures had no red!!! I thru savage sandeels, SP minnows and pencil poppers but all I managed was a few missed strikes.
I also brought my kayak and freshwater gear to the cape. After the ditch on 7/31 I hit up Mashpee Lake for some bassn and only managed to pull up one relatively large white perch. I did get to see a couple of skinny dippers at the far end of the lake and the lady swimming was all I needed to get over my lack of fish. I also fished from the yak a couple of more times. I hit a small pond on the brewster/orleans line that has some good trout fishing. I caught a handful of trout in the 11-14 inch range and one dink bass. That same day I trolled Sheeps Pond in Brewster for some bigger trout. I caught a ton of yellow perch on crawlers but the one trout I hooked spit the hook right at the boat. It looked like a 3lb rainbow but I wasn't sure. I just know it was big and in deep water.
The best day of fishing was yesterday when I was back in my home waters. I slept in a little and hit up the Chesterfield Gorge at about 9 to do some fly fishing. I fished there for about 3 hours and caught two nice rainbows. The first was probably 14 inches and the second was about 16 inches. I also caught a nice brown in the 17 inch range. I had several other strikes and lost a couple others because of a lack of net. I will be posting pics of the gorge shortly. The rest of the fish weren't pic worthy.
