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Cape Cod Canal Fishing Report June 18, 2025: Stripers on the Move, Bluefish Arrive, and Bonito Blitzes Spotted
Artificial Lure here with your Cape Cod Canal fishing report for Wednesday, June 18, 2025.
Sunrise cracked at 5:08AM and sunset won’t hit until 8:21PM, offering you a long window to put in the hours—plenty of daylight for tracking down the big ones. Weather’s shaping up classic for mid-June: expect mild early mornings with the kind of overcast haze that keeps the fish feeling safe and active, pushing up into the low 70s by afternoon, and only a mild breeze out of the southwest. The strong canal currents, driven by the tidal differences between Cape Cod Bay and Buzzards Bay, have been cooperating—this morning’s low tide was just before sunrise and the next big high tide will top out around lunchtime, which should really get the bite going according to Tide-Forecast.com.
Striper migration is still in full swing. Bass of mixed sizes continue to move through the canal—On The Water’s latest striper migration update reports fish from low-to-mid 20-inch schoolies all the way up to mid-40-inch cows working through both the canal and the outer beaches. Early mornings and change-of-tide windows have been the ticket for these bigger fish, especially as bait pushes in on the moving water. Buzzards Bay is still holding some quality bass, thanks to pockets of pogies and mackerel, but the Cape Cod Canal is where the excitement’s at for shore-bound anglers right now.
Canal regulars over at Canal Bait & Tackle have been seeing steady action on striped bass, with a solid number of legal-sized fish picked off the swinging currents on big heavy jigs, soft plastics, and classic topwater plugs. Flutter spoons and live pogies are working for the boat crowd, but from shore, it’s all about tossing pencil poppers, Savage Sand Eels, and bucktail jigs—those have been responsible for much of this week’s success. In the deeper holes, especially near the Railroad Bridge and around the East End, guys are sticking bigger soft plastics on heavy jigheads for those mid-channel bruisers.
Bluefish presence is still light but on the uptick along the south-facing beaches, and a few have moved into the canal itself, so be ready—metal lures and surface plugs will get those hits. Bonito blitzes have been spotted just outside the harbors, and fluke are showing up in better numbers along shoal edges if you want to mix it up.
As far as hotspots: the Middle Ground by the Herring Run has been especially active in the early AM, and the stretch from the Sagamore Bridge down toward Bell Road is worth a slow walk with a topwater just before and after slack tide. Locals also report better luck on the west tide as bait gets pushed east to west, drawing the stripers in tight, especially during overcast hours.
That wraps it up for this Cape Cod Canal fishing report. Thanks for tuning in—don’t forget to subscribe for your next update. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease dot ai.
Sunrise cracked at 5:08AM and sunset won’t hit until 8:21PM, offering you a long window to put in the hours—plenty of daylight for tracking down the big ones. Weather’s shaping up classic for mid-June: expect mild early mornings with the kind of overcast haze that keeps the fish feeling safe and active, pushing up into the low 70s by afternoon, and only a mild breeze out of the southwest. The strong canal currents, driven by the tidal differences between Cape Cod Bay and Buzzards Bay, have been cooperating—this morning’s low tide was just before sunrise and the next big high tide will top out around lunchtime, which should really get the bite going according to Tide-Forecast.com.
Striper migration is still in full swing. Bass of mixed sizes continue to move through the canal—On The Water’s latest striper migration update reports fish from low-to-mid 20-inch schoolies all the way up to mid-40-inch cows working through both the canal and the outer beaches. Early mornings and change-of-tide windows have been the ticket for these bigger fish, especially as bait pushes in on the moving water. Buzzards Bay is still holding some quality bass, thanks to pockets of pogies and mackerel, but the Cape Cod Canal is where the excitement’s at for shore-bound anglers right now.
Canal regulars over at Canal Bait & Tackle have been seeing steady action on striped bass, with a solid number of legal-sized fish picked off the swinging currents on big heavy jigs, soft plastics, and classic topwater plugs. Flutter spoons and live pogies are working for the boat crowd, but from shore, it’s all about tossing pencil poppers, Savage Sand Eels, and bucktail jigs—those have been responsible for much of this week’s success. In the deeper holes, especially near the Railroad Bridge and around the East End, guys are sticking bigger soft plastics on heavy jigheads for those mid-channel bruisers.
Bluefish presence is still light but on the uptick along the south-facing beaches, and a few have moved into the canal itself, so be ready—metal lures and surface plugs will get those hits. Bonito blitzes have been spotted just outside the harbors, and fluke are showing up in better numbers along shoal edges if you want to mix it up.
As far as hotspots: the Middle Ground by the Herring Run has been especially active in the early AM, and the stretch from the Sagamore Bridge down toward Bell Road is worth a slow walk with a topwater just before and after slack tide. Locals also report better luck on the west tide as bait gets pushed east to west, drawing the stripers in tight, especially during overcast hours.
That wraps it up for this Cape Cod Canal fishing report. Thanks for tuning in—don’t forget to subscribe for your next update. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease dot ai.
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By Quiet. PleaseArtificial Lure here with your Cape Cod Canal fishing report for Wednesday, June 18, 2025.
Sunrise cracked at 5:08AM and sunset won’t hit until 8:21PM, offering you a long window to put in the hours—plenty of daylight for tracking down the big ones. Weather’s shaping up classic for mid-June: expect mild early mornings with the kind of overcast haze that keeps the fish feeling safe and active, pushing up into the low 70s by afternoon, and only a mild breeze out of the southwest. The strong canal currents, driven by the tidal differences between Cape Cod Bay and Buzzards Bay, have been cooperating—this morning’s low tide was just before sunrise and the next big high tide will top out around lunchtime, which should really get the bite going according to Tide-Forecast.com.
Striper migration is still in full swing. Bass of mixed sizes continue to move through the canal—On The Water’s latest striper migration update reports fish from low-to-mid 20-inch schoolies all the way up to mid-40-inch cows working through both the canal and the outer beaches. Early mornings and change-of-tide windows have been the ticket for these bigger fish, especially as bait pushes in on the moving water. Buzzards Bay is still holding some quality bass, thanks to pockets of pogies and mackerel, but the Cape Cod Canal is where the excitement’s at for shore-bound anglers right now.
Canal regulars over at Canal Bait & Tackle have been seeing steady action on striped bass, with a solid number of legal-sized fish picked off the swinging currents on big heavy jigs, soft plastics, and classic topwater plugs. Flutter spoons and live pogies are working for the boat crowd, but from shore, it’s all about tossing pencil poppers, Savage Sand Eels, and bucktail jigs—those have been responsible for much of this week’s success. In the deeper holes, especially near the Railroad Bridge and around the East End, guys are sticking bigger soft plastics on heavy jigheads for those mid-channel bruisers.
Bluefish presence is still light but on the uptick along the south-facing beaches, and a few have moved into the canal itself, so be ready—metal lures and surface plugs will get those hits. Bonito blitzes have been spotted just outside the harbors, and fluke are showing up in better numbers along shoal edges if you want to mix it up.
As far as hotspots: the Middle Ground by the Herring Run has been especially active in the early AM, and the stretch from the Sagamore Bridge down toward Bell Road is worth a slow walk with a topwater just before and after slack tide. Locals also report better luck on the west tide as bait gets pushed east to west, drawing the stripers in tight, especially during overcast hours.
That wraps it up for this Cape Cod Canal fishing report. Thanks for tuning in—don’t forget to subscribe for your next update. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease dot ai.
Sunrise cracked at 5:08AM and sunset won’t hit until 8:21PM, offering you a long window to put in the hours—plenty of daylight for tracking down the big ones. Weather’s shaping up classic for mid-June: expect mild early mornings with the kind of overcast haze that keeps the fish feeling safe and active, pushing up into the low 70s by afternoon, and only a mild breeze out of the southwest. The strong canal currents, driven by the tidal differences between Cape Cod Bay and Buzzards Bay, have been cooperating—this morning’s low tide was just before sunrise and the next big high tide will top out around lunchtime, which should really get the bite going according to Tide-Forecast.com.
Striper migration is still in full swing. Bass of mixed sizes continue to move through the canal—On The Water’s latest striper migration update reports fish from low-to-mid 20-inch schoolies all the way up to mid-40-inch cows working through both the canal and the outer beaches. Early mornings and change-of-tide windows have been the ticket for these bigger fish, especially as bait pushes in on the moving water. Buzzards Bay is still holding some quality bass, thanks to pockets of pogies and mackerel, but the Cape Cod Canal is where the excitement’s at for shore-bound anglers right now.
Canal regulars over at Canal Bait & Tackle have been seeing steady action on striped bass, with a solid number of legal-sized fish picked off the swinging currents on big heavy jigs, soft plastics, and classic topwater plugs. Flutter spoons and live pogies are working for the boat crowd, but from shore, it’s all about tossing pencil poppers, Savage Sand Eels, and bucktail jigs—those have been responsible for much of this week’s success. In the deeper holes, especially near the Railroad Bridge and around the East End, guys are sticking bigger soft plastics on heavy jigheads for those mid-channel bruisers.
Bluefish presence is still light but on the uptick along the south-facing beaches, and a few have moved into the canal itself, so be ready—metal lures and surface plugs will get those hits. Bonito blitzes have been spotted just outside the harbors, and fluke are showing up in better numbers along shoal edges if you want to mix it up.
As far as hotspots: the Middle Ground by the Herring Run has been especially active in the early AM, and the stretch from the Sagamore Bridge down toward Bell Road is worth a slow walk with a topwater just before and after slack tide. Locals also report better luck on the west tide as bait gets pushed east to west, drawing the stripers in tight, especially during overcast hours.
That wraps it up for this Cape Cod Canal fishing report. Thanks for tuning in—don’t forget to subscribe for your next update. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease dot ai.