The spring run has officially started. Water temperatures continue to climb around the Cape and the bass seem to be ahead of schedule this year, at least compared to last year. This past weekend, the outgoing tides around dawn and dusk in upper Buzzards Bay gave us our first legitimate shots at finding stripers in […]
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Riley Libby We left Maine just after 11 and drove through the night. The highway was dark as we crossed into Massachusetts. The floor was already littered with empty monster cans. It had been a long day at work prior to leaving and the plan to take a nap never materialized. At this point, we […]
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Today on the podcast, we have surf angler extraordinaire, Frank Goncalves. We chat about confidence and must-have lures, the obsessive nature needed to become a stone cold cow catcher, and of course, Frank’s personal best bass. Listen to this one if you want to catch more and bigger bass from the suds. You can find […]
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We are right now only days away from the first migratory bass reaching the Cape. DAYS! It could be this weekend. Not to mention haddock season opening up on Monday, largemouths putting their pre-spawn feeding bags on, and trout. Oh trout. Let’s just say the trout curse is alive and well in Seven Stripes land. […]
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Surprise! Just like that, after an on-again-off-again winter, we’re back for another fishing season. The trout have been stocked in the ponds and rivers around the Cape. Largemouth are eating, getting ready to spawn. Pickerel and perch and bluegill are massacring your flies meant for trout. Oh, and by the way. The stripers may be […]
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In this episode, I chat with Jimmy Fee and Lunchbreak Eddy of On the Water Magazine. Over a couple beers at the Fishermen’s View, we talk about spot burning and social media, working the dream fishing job, and Eddy gives up the exact location of his secret white perch spot. You won’t want to miss […]
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Want to contribute to the 30 days of stripers countdown? Shoot us your favorite striper picture and a quick story about the catch and we’ll feature it here and on our social accounts. Submissions can be sent to sevenstripesfishing@gmail.com or messaged on Instagram or Facebook. Prefer to tell us your story in person? Visit the […]
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In this episode, we sit down with Joe D’Agostino of Joebaggs Tackle. We chat about how to catch every type of fish in the Northeast on a Joebaggs lure, big bass on olive jigs at night, and how the famous “Patriot Fish” was named. Hint: It involves a lost bet. And Joe is not a […]
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**3/13 Update: Trout have been stocked in a few Cape ponds! Head over to https://www.mass.gov/service-details/trout-stocking-report for details. *3/12 Update: No trout stocked yet. Will update when I hear about the trucks. Sean and I hit four ponds just off-Cape on Monday 3/11 and found them all locked up with ice. I’m thinking they should be […]
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This is spring. This is the beginning of something. Work’s busy but I sneak out early, speeding down 195, shoving a granola bar into my mouth while narrowly avoiding speed traps and potential ten car pileups. At the state forest, I pull down an unmarked dirt road, overgrown even in the dead landscape of early […]
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