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Locating quality striped bass during spring when when fishing Cape Cod differs from locating big bass during the heat of the summer. Estuaries and the beachfront generally produce more big stripers in May and June than during the summer months. At the outset of the season, finding big stripers in 25 feet of water is usually more common than finding big bass in 60 feet. By far the most fun way to fish mackerel is to use light tackle. I'll pick light tackle spinning setups when we locate fish in areas with little or no current. Simply pitch the mack overboard and allow the bait to do the rest. Watching a mackerel get chased on the surface by a thirty pound striper is a sight not soon forgotten. At times during the spring, striped bass will hold tight to the bottom in areas with current. Harbor channels, estuaries and creeks are all areas in which bass will hold. In these circumstances, fishing mackerel making use of a three-way rig makes the most sense. When drifting with the current, it is critical to use a weight heavy enough to keep the line nearly vertical. Conventional setups perform this job much better than spinning setups. When a striped bass bites, resist the urge to immediately set the hook. Instead, lower the rod tip, wait for the line to become taught and then rear back. Early in the spring the first schoolie bass start trickling into Buzzards Bay and Nantucket and Vineyard Sound. Not far behind these smaller stripers are the large stripers that many of us dream about all winter. One of the most productive and adrenaline pumping ways to catch these cows on Cape Cod will be live-lining mackerel. For the fishermen it is a chance to watch predation in action. Extraordinary surface feeds ensue when stripers are honed in on mackerel. As always there will be cow stripers caught by anglers utilizing the spring mackerel run. Unfortunately, the big schools of mackerel will be more difficult to uncover once late June rolls around. I hope you are able to take full advantage of this fishery on Cape Cod, and take part in on some of the exciting spring time fishing this beautiful peninsula has to offer.
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