Cape Cod Bay

The double L's have always been productive.

But you got that inner zone, you know, along the ledges from like Strawberry Ledge all the way to like the The weather buoy in Cape Cod Bay, which can have, you know, life in it.

Best part about a fishery like this or a part of the season like this is if you fished in that big fleet off Montauk this summer and you saw how many boats were there and how the fish react to that pressure, man, you've got a chance to find them and have them just to you.

And that's what a couple boats are doing right now.

He fished extensively from his kayak for funny fish leading up to that big northeast blow.

He also fished during the blow inside Cape Cod Bay from the beach for big striped bass, and from what I understand, he's had some success spotting false albacore and bonito post-nor'easter, which is the most excellent news that we're gonna bring you today, that that big blow that was prolonged over six or seven days didn't end the funny fish season prematurely along the south side and the Sounds.

So that's the breaking news of today's show, and with our intro out of the way, let's welcome in today's guest.

Well, as promised, our featured guest on this week's edition of the My Fishing Cape Cod podcast is our great friend, Ian McPartland, from down at the beautiful Goose Hummock Shop in Orleans, Massachusetts.

As you can tell by our interview with him today, he was sitting in the parking lot at the beach, ready to launch the kayak and go chase some false albacore off the south side.

So it's great to hear those fish have stuck around, and they survived the big nor'easter of the fall of 2026.

Also, as we anticipated going into the storm, it seems like the striped bass fishing, in particular deep inside Cape Cod Bay, from Sandwich down toward the east end, as well as from Sandwich up toward Barnstable Harbor, those areas are fishing really well from the beach, which is great to hear.

We've had a predominant boat bite inside Cape Cod Bay during this summer and early fall season, but it's nice to hear with all that north wind, it's kinda kicked the fish around a little bit, pushed them in closer to shore, and made them really accessible for the surf casting angler.

As the storm approaches New England... strengthening east-northeast winds, pushing that Atlantic water toward shore.

Water piling up in the Cape Cod Bay, the other bays, the sounds, the harbors, the inlets from Long Island to Maine will be flooding some of the low-lying coastal areas.

The storm will draw moisture northward from the subtropical Atlantic, fueling heavy rain across southeastern New England, Periods of heavy rain throughout the weekend could flood streets, small streams, disrupting travel.

Obviously, outdoor plans may have to be moved elsewhere.

I would think the swell probably not going to be quite as big maybe inside the bay.

Maybe, depending on what pocket you'd want to fish, you might be able to, like the northern part of Cape Cod Bay where you're a little bit more protected, maybe you'd have a shot at trying to get some stuff into the suds.

Yeah, absolutely.

Sometimes, you know, you can even face the different way if it's just so bad.

I mean, it'll probably be, you know, 8 to 10 to potential 12-footers in Cape Cod Bay, which is very big for the Bay.

I mean, that's really, really big.

Just because of the amount of days prolonged, it will be northeast.

Yep.