Kayak fish outer Gloucester Harbor and its nearby hotspots Magnolia and Kettle Cove during the fall run for striped bass and you’ll likely lament your choice if you fish from a sea kayak rather than a sit-on-top or wide sit-in-kayak. Here’s why. Location won’t be the the problem. Nor will method. Tube-and-worm fishing for stripers ...
I’ve kayak fished the western shores of Gloucester, Ma. for ten years and for pretty good reason other than being a native: place has plenty of advantages: not much in the way of on-water congestion, or what anglers call pressure, an ample supply of fish, and countless ledges and outcroppings and coves and inlets that ...
Rockport, Massachusetts is a self-described “seaport village” on Cape Ann, about 40 miles north of Boston. Settled in 1690, Rockport was a “dry” town from 1856 until 2005. Now “several Rockport restaurants are licensed to serve alcoholic beverages with meals.” (Rockport Chamber of Commerce). But one hundred and fifty years ago Hannah Jumper led the ...
Winter sea kayaking came into vogue several seven years ago in New England when a couple dozen local Massachusetts paddlers bought drysuits and discovered that they could buy at local sporting good stores neoprene gloves just as warm as anything they could buy for three times as much on mail order. Temperatures were frigid, as ...
A storm offshore is plowing mounds of swell towards Cape Ann and two days of waves breaking against Straitsmouth and Thachers have littered the islands’ shores with clumps of seaweed which the waves have ground down into a sort of water-borne dust that clouds the water. The northern and eastern corners of Thachers and the ...
If you drift-fish herring chunks on unweighted hooks for striped in outer Gloucester Harbor southeast of Ten Pound Island, things probably won’t go well at first. The waters here face the bony western shores of Eastern Point, and – if a light southwesterly is blowing, you’ll set a drift line that runs towards Niles Beach. ...
When people talk about “the Cape” in Massachusetts they are usually referring to Cape Cod. There is another cape, however, which offers seaside New England charm without the congestion of Cape Cod. That cape is Cape Ann, which includes America’s oldest seaport, the town of Gloucester. Gloucester is located 35 miles north of Boston, and ...