I had checked this beach on six consecutive days, watching the fall bounty of peanut bunker stack up in the bubble weed and the seabirds meander along the shoreline, picking at shells and eelgrass. Three of the six days, I found fish—micro stripers gliding through the shallows chasing singular baitfish and shrimp. On the other […]
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I keep thinking about perspective. In June, you could not have paid me to cast to trout in a kettle pond. But here I am, at the end of October tying a woolly bugger to a 4x tippet casting to stocked trout, getting skunked and actually somewhat enjoying the peace it brings. In early May, […]
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I feel like now is a good a time as any to actually carve out some time and type out some of the fishing experiences we’ve had this month. Let me be the first (or seven-hundredth) to tell you, May was packed with fishing stuff. Good trips, great trips, insane trips. Absolutely brutal and fishless […]
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Perhaps the greatest live performance ever sung is Dylan’s meandering, slowed-down rendition of “Hard Rain’s a-gonna Fall” at Carnegie Hall in 1963. This performance has literally nothing to do with the fishing report, aside from the very clear fact that it’s pouring rain outside of my window (and snow outside of some of your windows), […]
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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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Them boys from FV Slayride, Carson and Jordan, had a wild year out on the tuna grounds. We’ll be doing a podcast to talk about tuna tips in the next few weeks. These guys are the newest members of Team Seven Stripes, let us know if you want to be part of the team. Here’s […]
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In this episode, we chat with Sam Stavis about surf stripers in the weirdest year we’ve ever had: 2020. We chat 30-pound bass on mackerel tight to rocks, surfcasting, estuary fishing, and rock hopping strategies. Sam also gives his pick for MVP lure of the season. Surfcasters: listen to this one. You can listen to […]
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The fall run appears to be dwindling to a trickle, just in time for the first flakes of snow to reach the New England earth. But even while I type this, I’m checking tide stage and wind direction for tomorrow in one last foray into the back bays to search out late fall run stragglers […]
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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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I know I’ve been saying this every blog post. But things are going to blow up this weekend. For real this time. Warm nights, heavy South winds, and big tides are the harbingers of the arrival. And we’ve got all three. Schools of stripers–big schools–are going to be arriving in the Cape Cod area in […]
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