Me and my dad are planning on going to the Cape Cod Canal in a few weeks and I was wondering if anyone has any specific tips, baits, areas, etc. About the fishing that could help. My dad has fished here several times this will be my first, I caught a 27 pounder this year my PB but about a mile offshore in Gloucester MA. Im looking forward to the trip and hoping you guys have some good advice...

Thanks

7-9" plastics on heavy lead heads depending on the tide. i like the 9" sluggos a lot. you can also throw pencil poppers and big metal lips.

It often pays to cast far. Big jigs with plastics like fishking said. You'll lose a lot of lead.

These are what work in the Canal.....

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Just to mention something for the sake of variety, live eels. What we use down here in Florida for barracuda are surgical tubes, which actually were developed to catch stripers. I make my own but similar ones can be bought in most saltwater tackle shops, Stryker makes a decent one. The intent of the tube is to resemble an eel.

http://www.seastriker.com/lures/lures_files/cudatubes.htm

Live eels are a great way to fish the canal... Use a sinker slider with a 5oz sinker on an incoming tide. Fishing the Cape side of the canal is best, and the water flow will be left to right. Cast out far left, and allow the sinker and eel to bounce along the bottom to the right. The current is very strong and will bounce the sinker at a perfect pace. When the bait bounces in front of you let it continue till it almost starts to pull on the rod, then start reeling really fast or you will get hung up on the rocks.

Use a 18" mono leader Big Game 30# Green with 50# main line with a swivel. Slip the sinker slide onto the main line and tie the main line to the other side of the swivel. Use a Palomar knot for all connections. Hook the eel through the lips from bottom to top. Keep the eels on ice in a cooler and they will be easy to handle, but will wake instantly when they hit the water. Don't let them just sit idle in the water like when chunking or they will wrap around your line and make a mess.

If you want a tip on a great spot let me know, and I'll hook you up (no pun intended) LOL.....

An easy rig to hook up, just for clarification I believe it's called a fish finder rig. There are illustrations and variations on google.