This winter I got my oupv captains license! 
I’ve been wanting to do it for a couple years, just needed the actual sea time and experience, which I finally had after a couple seasons on my own skiff here on cape cod. Half the captains I know just lied about their sea time, or get one of the friends who is a charter captain to lie for them about their experience…I actually didn’t, have been fishing hard the past 3 seasons, exploring a ton, as we have lots of water here to fish between Buzzards bay, cape cod bay, the vinyard sound, and down the elizabeth islands! lots of water to explore!
I really wanted to be able to take some of my existing art clients out fishing with me, as over the years alot of my clients turned into my friends. I wanted to show them around Cape Cod. When the fish are here, we have a world class fishery, mostly all sight fishing in shallow water, or fishing to blitzing fish, or tossing flies into the giant boulders down the Elizabeths and watching bass come out of the rocks to eat flies.
Cape Cod is known for its rips. The monomoy rips, the vineyard sound rips, the rips around ptown, etc…Rip fishing is just letting line out of the back of the boat, stripping it out until the fly hits the rip…You don’t even need to cast…While its fun watching bass explode on squid and on your fly, its not really fly fishing, you dont even need to cast… While i do my fair share of it, esp with people new to fly fishing, I try to focus my efforts on the flats, and other shallow water areas in which you’ll find actively blitzing fish.
The first week of June is usually when the sand eels emerge, and its usually some of our best fishing. and this year did not disappoint.
I took out my friend Jen who is a drift boat guide here in western mass. She hasn’t fished the salt too much, and the fishing she has done was all rip fishing… She has never seen a real blitz…
We fished for 2 days the first week of June, launching at 4:30 am into Cape Cod bay…
From 5 am to roughly 9 am we had blitzing fish surrounding the boat in every direction, easily thousands of fish around us… It was some of the best fishing Ive seen all year. She landed so many fish we stopped counting, by lunch time she probably had 25-30 fish in the boat.
