 | North Coast Angler offers a variety of angling services including: saltwater fly fishing for Striped bass, American Shad, and Bluefish.Special arrangements can be made for "Football" Bluefin Tuna and False Albacore adventures. We also offer light tackle options for the non-flyfisher. |
| Capt Skip Montello |
 | Our season usually begins in early May with American Shad running the Merrimac River to their spawning area well up river. American Shad are truly an excellent game fish on the fly or with light tackle.The early settlers refered to them as "poor man's salmon". They are strong and acrobatic and run in size from 4-8 lbs average. Some larger fish in the 12lb range are mixed in. |
| Capt Al Montello |
 | Shortly thereafter, hordes of Stripers enter the Merrimac river system on their northward migration from the Chesapeake Bay area. The Merrimac river estuary comes alive with thousands of voracious Stripers, ready and willing to take a fly or other baits. The fishing remains excellent through July. As the ocean waters warm up, the beautiful coastal water off Cape Ann becomes a summer long haunt of Stripers and Bluefish. The Cape Ann fishing is very exciting, cruising in close to the rocky shoreline, casting flies or baits into the breaking surf and holding on as large Stripers or Blues rip line off the reel! The season runs well into October with some of the season’s best fishing.| Capt Dave Beshara |
 | July and August bring warmer ocean waters and an abundance of bait fish and schools of Bluefin Tuna begin to populate the waters off Cape Ann. The tuna fishing is very exciting and Capt Allan Smith has had considerable success finding and catching these elusive game fish. The tuna fishing continues well into October with large numbers of fish close in to shore.
| | Capt Allan Smith | |
 | Cape Ann offers some the best shoreline fishing to be found anywhere in Massachusetts. We can take you to some of the areas best locations and provide you with the “know-how and where-all” of surf-fishing on our Cape. Guide/Instructor Steve Papows is an accomplished angler, guide and surf-casting instructor with a lifetime of experience and knowledge.
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| Guide/Instructor Steve Papows |
