The Action Starts...
By: Capt. Hap Farrell
It's the 5th of May. It's rainy, chilly, and just plain miserable out. We've been waiting for the summer season to start where the weather improves by warming up and getting sunny. Where the water warms and the bass start to come up into Pleasant Bay, the Cove, and Cape Cod Bay. Well, you can't tell it by the weather but the rumors of fish have started. As of today, I've heard of almost legal bass being landed off Crowell Rd in Eastham on the low end of a coming tide. Also, three keepers being landed by two angler out of Sesuit Harbor.
Maybe Cape Cod Bay will open up early. My boat is finally ready so I'm going out this weekend and check some of my spots and test these rumors.
My gauge the movement of the bass in our area by the first fish taken at the River Rd. landing in Orleans. So far I have not found any fish there. I have not been up to South Sunken Meadow yet, but there isn't any information from there either. There have been small newly arrived stripers in Pleasant Bay in the Chatham areas but nothing reported up here in Orleans. This will soon change, I'm sure. It's time to start looking. I'm going to be hitting the River Rd. landing everyday until this coming weekend. The I'll concentrate on the Bay.
