It is officially striper season here on the Cape and surrounding areas. Here’s a quick forecast and fishing plan for ya: The boys and I are gonna go out tomorrow to try and catch a few. It can be a little tough to pinpoint where exactly you’re going to find the most success with these […]
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In this episode, we sit down with Brad Burns, longtime president of Stripers Forever, and Fred Jennings of Peak Dawn Anglers to talk about the history of striped bass management. This is a great conversation with two anglers and longtime conservation leaders who have an immense amount of experience dealing with striped bass and management […]
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It’s April again. You know what that means, right? Freezing cold fishing trips, numb fingers, leaky waders, and fishless days, all in the name of trying to get a head start on the striper season. Doesn’t that sound like fun!? I think it does. But there are other options for us this month if you […]
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I like fishing gear. Lures, braid, reels, rods, flies, tying materials, storage containers… I can’t get enough. I think when we all reach the point of obsession with fishing, we try to accumulate as much stuff as possible. Lures that we think look cool, reels we may never use, enough soft plastics to plug a […]
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Sean O’Brien Like most of you reading this, I spend a ridiculous amount of time in the off-season scouring Google Earth for new areas to fish for the spring run. Unfortunately, what I’ve found is that so many of these ideal areas are inaccessible by foot alone. Flashbacks of memories fishing from shore while epic […]
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Want to submit a fish story? Send it along to sevenstripesfishing@gmail.com. Where fall trips are typically solitary endeavors, spring excursions are often accompanied by fishing buddies, manic and talkative against the silence of black mornings, eager for their first encounter with liced-up stripers fresh from the Atlantic super-highway. We were searching for the first stripers […]
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I come to you in better spirits on this fine Friday evening in July. It happened today. I swallowed my pride, traveled away from my usual haunts and fished a new area with Todd of Dupe a Fish and his buddy Chris. Well, folks, turns our it was a pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good move. […]
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Time to R.E.F.L.E.C.T, and find out what it means to me (points if you sung that in your head). Considering this weekend is right around the midpoint of the striper season, the weather is going to be crap, and I’m just about reaching that point of total frustration with striper fishing where I thought seriously […]
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In this episode, I chat with Capt. Peter Fallon of Gillies & Fallon Guide Service about tossing flies to stripers on the flats in the Kennebec, running down blitzing albies in Buzzards Bay, and just about everything in between. We may even chat about catching stripers in the Three Bays. This one is loaded with […]
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The first verse of striper season begins with silence and a subtle, increasing hum. Then, two words whispered through trusted circles of fishing buddies, shared on fishtagram pages and across fishing forums threads: they’re here. The stripers are here. How long have we waited to hear or utter those two words? How many cold nights […]
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