Fishing near Provincetown in Barnstable County, MA

3.86 Rating based on 107 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Burbot, Arctic Char, Other (Saltwater), Bluegill, Striped Bass
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 74
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 219
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Provincetown Fishing Photos

A nice morning near Provincetown

A nice morning

3 Blues taken at Herring Cove on Silver Needle popper
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yummy near Provincetown

yummy

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first fish near Provincetown

first fish

first fish of the trip
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dad with his biggest fish
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Top Fishing Spots near Provincetown

Clapps Pond
Clapps Pond

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 3
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Race Point Beach
Race Point Beach

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
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Race Point
Race Point

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# Reviews:
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Stellwagon Bank
Stellwagon Bank

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 1
Views: 1171

Great Pond (aka Great Swamp)
Great Pond (aka Great Swamp)

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 1075

Pamet River
Pamet River

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Provincetown Area Fish Species

Recent Provincetown Fishing Reports

p-town stripers Fishing Report Jun 23, 2014

p-town stripers

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Took a boat trip through the canal and across the bay to provincetown town over the weekend and the striped bass were in full swing. Started jigging d...

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a great trip with dad Fishing Report Jun 17, 2012

a great trip with dad

race point -

went out with my dad on the water today caught about 8 fish of decent size kept four for eating and giving away...had a really fun day and was happy t...

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Striper Wolf Pack--Woods Hole, Race Point--whole new way to catch stripies Fishing Report Jun 30, 2014

Striper Wolf Pack--Woods Hole, Race Point--whole new way to catch stripies

Provincetown -

What a day! Whole new way fish stripers, and we did well. Met Jeremy at 4:30AM Greens Harbor Marshfield. Ran back to the car for Mackrel rigs, ate sh*...

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Tuna Fishing on the Skip-A-Dory Fishing Report Mar 10, 2011

Tuna Fishing on the Skip-A-Dory

Awesome November day of bluefin fishing aboard the Skip-A-Dory with Captain Chuck DiStefano. This was first time with Chuck, as I joined one of his r...

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"Peaked Hill"  Fishing Report Apr 26, 2010

"Peaked Hill"

Peaked Hill, MA -

Caught first true "Giant" Bluefin Tuna. 656lbs. This was definiately my best memory in regards to fishing!!! ...

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Great day catching my first bluefish down the cape  Fishing Report Aug 15, 2016

Great day catching my first bluefish down the cape

Provincetown, MA -

I'm a bit late in posting this trip, but last Sunday I got the chance to go down to Provincetown on a friends boat to go for some bluefish. It was...

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Baits and Tackle used near Provincetown

Check Prices

  • Dont realy remember
  • 2in Jitterbug
  • Senko purple with purple flake.
  • Senko. Purple with purple flake
  • Rubber worm Wacky Style
  • Mackarel, Clam
  • drop shot senko
  • I used rubber worms,Surprised they hit the worms this early,My buddy was using shiners and caught a 5lbs.7oz largemouth,didn't include it in this trip,There not my points.
  • Worm
  • Drop shot senko

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Bluefish rigged through the head set at fifty feet with a baloon
  • Fresh Mackerel
  • Live pogies and bluefish.
  • Clams
  • Sand Eels
  • eels

Creature Check Prices

  • texas rigged baby creatures. on weedlines
  • Green Pumpkin Brush Hog

Tube Check Prices

  • 3 for 7.99lbs
    One was about 2lbs, One about 3lbs, and my Lunker of the day was 3lbs 1oz

Minnow Check Prices

  • Live minnow under a float
  • Shiners, 3-4 inch
  • Shiner live lining.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • I was using a Super Spook Jr and 6" blue/black senkos.

Lizard Check Prices

  • slow dragged threw beds

    also got 1 ona hard jerkbait and it turned out to be a smallie

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • Caught on Gary Yamamoto Senko

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Mepps Aguila gold inline spinner #2
  • Mepps Aguila gold inline spinner #2.
  • Strike king bleeding spinner bait... Casting to an over hanging tree
  • 1st was 1-1/2lbs
    2nd was 1lb
  • tandem willow spinner baits, mostly chartruse and lime.
    and the 6" pumkin stick worms
  • med speed retrieve
  • Strike King Premier Plus 3/8oz Bluegill

Squid Check Prices

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Lucky Craft Pointer 100 Golden Shiner pattern.
  • 4in senkos in various colors
  • Jerk Bait

Dry Fly Check Prices

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Joes fly
  • Trolling or tossing in-line spinners. Powerbait mello's
  • Mepps inline spinner #0 in silver. Was trying for trout.
  • Panther Martin rainbow trout inline spinner #1
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail
    1st - 12in
    2nd -12 1/4in
    4th - 12 1/2in
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail
  • one 11-1/2in and one 14.5in 1lb 6oz
  • 7 and 8 inches
  • Panther Martin spinner
  • My First Ever Pike and was only 6 inches, lol

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Butterfly Jig
  • Norwegian Jigs and pink teasers
    We caught over 125 fish and kept 80 as the limit is ten per person 24 inch length minimum
  • Various jigs worked along with different teasers

Worm Check Prices

  • Gary Yamato green Pumkin wacky rigged 6" - Because I lost all of my Yum Dingers on Saturday!
  • Yum dinger
  • Yum Dingers Wacky Rigged Green Pumpkin.
  • Rubber worms Wacky style
  • 4" YUM Dingers, Watermelon/Gold Flake
  • Long, thin, green worms worked amazingly well
  • AKA Black Magic
  • Berkley Gulp Alive Natural - My go to bait.
  • Berkley Gulp Alive Natural on the big one.
    Mepps inline brass spinner #2 on the smaller one.
  • 5" senko worm, wacky style

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Dropshot
  • 3 Keepers:
    3.20lbs
    2lbs
    1lb

  • Shakey Head
  • Shakey Head
    The 2 bass I caught that counted toward our limit were:
    1lb 9oz, and 1lb 4oz
    8 other Bass between 13in and 10in

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • berkley powerbait worm
  • Green umbrella rig and red umbrella rig... Trolled at 8-10 RPMs. 40-60 feet deep....red white knuckle head popper

Craw Check Prices

  • Our Bag was:
    Paul's 3.85lber, 3-1/2lber, one a little over 2lbs, and my 3-1/2lber

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • 7" dark trout 2x slammer
  • Ms Slammers and 3:16 baby wakes in Rainbow trout colors
  • blue reble
  • 7" dark trout 2x ms slammer
  • Rapala Baby Bass Jointed swimbait

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

Jigs Check Prices

  • using rainbow jig with a 2 sinker.

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Rapala Original Floater F-11 - Minnow
  • 1-Minus crankbait in a Bluegill pattern
  • Rapala Perch
  • Relentless all day!!!!!
  • My 2 limit Fish were 1lb 5oz, and 1lb 4oz

    Vinny had a 2lb 4oz, 1lb 4oz, and 1lb 3oz

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • use bass jig # 10 with wire line
  • Jigs in shoreline cover did 95% of the damage

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Northland minnow
  • on a Boag Hog Stand-Up Head

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • We each culled one Bass - My was a 12"3/4lb, Vinny's was 1lb

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • 33" was my other keeper
    And 4 Schoolies between 25"-15"
  • Sea Worm on a slider rig

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Plastic Jerk Bait
  • Snapper Popper

Blade Bait Check Prices

Grub Check Prices

  • White grub
  • Swimming a 3' grub on a 1/4 oz. jighead through some lily pads.

Live Baits Check Prices

  • squid/ clam/ mackerel typically

Other Check Prices

  • Sand Eels
  • yellow and Pink Power Bait caught fish with Yellow oin a #12 treble hook being the best.
  • chartruse power bait
  • Rainbow Power Bait

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