Day trip to the Monomoy Rip
Day trips to the southern tip of South Monomoy island to fish the tidal rip are not, currently, a regularly scheduled offering of the Rip Ryder's angler ferry program. It took Mike Oliver, visiting from England just for the striper fishing, a lot of work to assemble the required number of anglers. The not insignificant problem of the trip is that, if the wind and swells came up, we could not be safely picked up off the tip of Monomoy and would have to walk six miles in soft sand to a safe boarding site. What a way to eliminate the "riff raff".
On this day 5 from my group, Mike and 4 other english anglers, and two Rip Ryder regulars took our chances. It turned out the best fishing was not in the rip itself but from the visible schools of bass cruising just off the shoreline in the half mile just to the north of the rip. And there were some serious big fish in those schools. The problem was that the smaller fish usually got to the fly first. And then there were the, ho hum, big bluefish.
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