May 28th 2013: Cape Cod in the wind....

Took the family for a long weekend on the Cape. Thursday night it was blowing SW so hard the stop signs and street signs were shaking in the wind. That's perfect for surf fishing south side beaches with a high tide as the wind will push up bait + fish - only trouble is casting against the wind. Sometimes I get lucky and the wind quits around dusk, but not last Thurs. On the plus side, it wasn't crowded (everyone else left). When I first showed up, I could smell fish - always a good sign. Best lure was the new Super Strike Heavy popper which worked awesome at cutting thru the wind and catching bluefish until another blue cut me off above my leader. The sinking version worked OK - not as good as the heavy. Around dusk, there were some stripers in the mix. I took the belly hook off, so I missed or dropped a bunch of fish - but still landed about 6 blues + 1 striper and lost about twice that many. Took home 3 blues for the smoker. 

The wind didn't really quit until Tuesday. I got out a few more times in the salt, but didn't do much until Tuesday. Did I mention the wind was brutal? And I was paddling my hobie since the drive is officially broken (getting it fixed now). I spent most of my time paddling the hobie against the wind and not too much time fishing.

Anyway, on Tuesday AM, the wind quit so I headed out for a quick trip before packing up the car for home. Flat calm when I launched around 6A to a dropping tide. Fishing was a little slow because the sun was already bright, but I got a keeper on a Shimano Waxwing Jr. (chart./white) which towed me around a bit and a few schoolies. There were lots of weeds in the water because of the minus tides and the waxwing came thru the junk pretty well. The double hook on the tail makes it easy to release fish, too.