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Provincetown :: Sunday, March 14th 2010
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Nelson's Bait and Tackle can lead you to your trophy!
Notes from Lands End – June 12
Gone Fishing!
By Laura Shabott
June 15th, 2009
When it comes to catching fish, Provincetown has the savvy captains, the boats and the rods and reels to do it! I am more into fashion than sport fishing so I asked around and people who love to fish LOVE TO FISH. They enjoy the hunt, the chance to be at the beach or in a boat chasing down dinner. Many couples balance one person’s need to fish with the other’s need to sun or read with a rod and reel at Herring Cove. Some visitors make the annual pilgrimage to fish on the same charter boat for tuna, bass or bluefish or bring an RV to cast their dispersions at the same time each year on Race Point.
| I am more into fashion than sport fishing so I asked around and people who love to fish LOVE TO FISH. |
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Nelson’s Bait & Tackle on the way to the National Seashore is a wonder! For $30.00, a person can gear up for the large stripers with a rod and reel, bait and all the tricky lures for a whole day. Owner Richard Wood is truly the salt of the earth and welcomes the novice or expert fishing enthusiast to come see him. The Beth Ann, his charter fishing boat, can take you on the water for a half or full day.
Alongside him in the Ginny G. is Captain Dave “Spider” Gibson, who sport fishes for bass and bluefish but also tuna. In operation full time for twelve years, Captain Gibson, who I know from grabbing a cup of Joe at the Coffee Pot, is a calm mariner who finds the fish and gets them.
If you are down at MacMillan Wharf, you can also hop on the Cee Jay at a moment’s notice with native Captain Vaughn Cabral. The pungent smell of bait is in the air if you want to watch commercial fishing vessels come into port with their bounty at the end of the wharf. Or, catch your own tuna with Captain Jim Shannon, a fisherman’s fisherman. He cuts right to it: “The ultimate fishing experience is a blue fin tuna on a light catch tackle”. While his predominant catch, as with Spider and Richard is striper and bass, the guy has a thing for tuna.
For a dose of magic, take your rod and reel and go by a water taxi from Flyers Boat Rental to the very tip of Cape Cod. There, surrounded by the waters of mystical Long Point, the end of a naturally formed spiral, your soul gets nourished by ancient forces and you might even catch a bass!
www.nelsonsbaitandtackle.com 508-487-0034
www.ginnygcapecodcharters.com 508-246-3656
www.captainjimscapecharters.com 508-237-7701
www.flyersboats.com 508-487-0898
www.ceejayfishingparties.com 508-487-4330
Laura Shabott is an artistic generalist with a degree in writing, acting and painting from the School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in cooperation with Emerson College. She washed ashore in 1992 and never left (for long).
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