Fish Cape Cod with Captain Will Raye

Guiding Fly fishing and Lite tackle anglers on Cape Cod, flats fishing Monomoy, South Beach, Nantucket Sound, Cape Cod Bay, Nauset Beach...Cape Cod is the best place to fly fish for stripers in shallow clear water!  *USCG Licensed and Insured guided trips*


Striper fishing has beern very good for 2010.  We had a great topwater bite, especially around Monomoy and off South Beach and the Chatham and Cape Cod Bay  flats fishing has been pretty good as well.   I recently had a pair of fine anglers from across the Atlantic over here for almost a week worth of amazing fishing...here's a couple pictures of our trip....


There is nothing like throwing flies to bass in extremely shallow water.  Take a look at the video of my client throwing to fish from ankle deep water.

The Result:


Topwater Striper Fishing....




The 2010 season is in full swing!
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A little about myself: 
I started fishing Cape Cod waters when I was very young, spending much of my time off Chatham. I have been guiding anglers since 1995 and still get as excited about seeing them catch fish as I did the day I started.  I grew up spending my summers on Morris Island in Chatham, spending every spare minute down at the beach throwing jigs, swimming plugs, poppers and eventually fly fishing.  People used to stare when I was fly fishing on the beach.  Now a days it seems like everyone has a fly rod on the boat.  Later on, graduating to a rowboat, I used to spend countless hours fighting the tide in Stage Harbor while chasing big harbor blues feeding on menhaden.  When I finally was allowed to have an outboard, a monstrous 5 hp, I was hunting schoolies around Morris Island, Monomoy and South Beach.

About 15 years and 5 or 6 boats later, my first guide boat was a 16' Carolina Skiff.  She could float on wet sand, but beat the stuffing out of me and my anglers.  I upgraded to a 18' Hewes Bayfisher, a great little boat, which I had until 2004.  She was starting to show her age and needed a little more TLC than I could give so off she went to a Maine guide who has since fixed her up and kept her on the water.  Fly fishing tflats around Monomoy was great in that little boat.

My current rig is a 20' Action Craft flats boat equiped with plenty of dry storage, a comfortable bench seat, a cooler for storing lunch and drinks, and lots of rod storage and a Suzuki 140hp 4-stroke on the back.  Set up specifically for fly fishing and lite tackle anglers, she can take pretty much anything I dish out fishing Cape Cod waters.  Drawing a little less than a foot, I can creep in to the little backwaters and flats of Cape Cod I love to fish and know no one else knows about.  At 8' wide she is extremely comfortable and stable in the bigger water.

When to Fish Cape Cod with Capt. Will Raye and what to expect...
Fishing mostly for stripers and bluefish through the early part of the summer on Cape Cod, it is always fun to start looking for tuna, bonito and albies as the water gets warmer and those species move in.  Catching fish using topwater techniques is something I specialize in.  If there is any possibility of catching fish on the surface we'll do it.  Take a look at the photo album.
You can catch stripers and blues all summer fly fishing the flats, but the best time is May thru July.  The tuna start showing up in July, bonito in August and albies in September. Book a trip with Captain Will. 

Flats fishing is my passion. If I can get up in shallow water and throw at fish with spin or fly rods, I will.  There is very little that compares to watching a fish eat in crystal clear, skinny water.  I also take my anglers wading quite a bit.  Fish often eat right at our feet!  For a stealthy approach it is the only way to go on the Monomoy, Brewster and Barnstable flats.

The weather is unpredictable and it is best to dress in layers throughout the season.  Bring packable rain gear on every trip when you fish Cape Cod with Capain Will!  A great site for weather specifically on Cape Cod is CapeCodWeather.net. 
 

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