6/26 monomoy

 Fishing the rips on the cape for bass is my favorite way to fish. We got some great weather this weekend and made the most of it. Bass were on small squid so small squid flies and pink sluggos were the way to go. We made one offshore run for tuna and hooked one but lost it. The fish were around but really difficult to get to eat. 

 

   Tuna morning  looking for tunas

 Back to bass fishing

 

   Great fishing beer

 

   Quite a day

Calamari flies

Despite the God awful weather this weekend I'm tying up some flies for the May and June squid run on the cape. The poppers are tied using an articulated shank designed for steelhead flies. I've used these to make the red can squid variations longer as well. The other fly is like Dave Skok's red can squid but I used a 6/0 pike hook. This moves the eye further down the "mantle" of the squid to make it look a little more proportional to the actual Atlantic long fin squid that I'm trying to imitate. I don't know how the pike hook will do in saltwater but hopefully the fly will be so mangled by the end of the first day that it won't matter.