Cape ponds fall into two categories. Most are kettle ponds left over from the last ice age and are deeper than they appear with firm sandy bottoms. The minority are flooded marshes that regardless of size are rarely over six feet deep and mud bottomed throughout. Wading is often nearly as effective as boating and allows fishers to circumnavigate many smaller ponds in a morning and larger ponds piecemeal a day at a time. Flyfishing Largemouths .
Largemouth bass grow bigger on the Cape due to the longer warmwater season and better forage.
Many Cape ponds hold largemouths over ten pounds. There is some spinfishing pressure on Cape largemouths but it hardly affects the flyfishing at all. It is not unusual to drop a big deer hair popper into pads chewed up by the efforts of many spinfishers and catch five pound bass just because of a patient and careful presentation. Flyfishing is consistently successful even under the midday sun of July and August because of the ability to present smaller or slower artificials to the fish. Like some other New England locations, yellow is the best color for attracting smallmouth interest.