The west end of the Cape Cod Canal opens into upper Buzzards Bay around Onset and Cleveland Ledge, and it offers a boat-based counterpart to the land-based canal fishery. Current from the Canal and the structure of the bay mouth stack bait and striped bass.
The ground
Fish the current at the west end, Cleveland Ledge, and the structure and channels of upper Buzzards Bay. Where the Canal current meets the bay, bait and fish concentrate.
How to fish it
Work the current and structure with soft plastics and jigs, and live eels for bigger bass at night. Time it to the moving tide.
Tip Fish the west end on the current that suits your approach. The Canal's flow reaches out into the bay, so find the tide stage that concentrates bait at the west end and work the moving water.
Regulations Striped bass rules apply, see Massachusetts DMF.