These are strange times to be talking about fish. Our life for the foreseeable future is a jumbled mess of TBDs, depressing statistics, and undefined timelines. So, you’ll excuse me if all I’m thinking about is the arrival of marone saxatilis. Everything is an uncertainty right now. But one steadfast inevitability we can continue to […]
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In this episode, I chat with Anthony Cole, master of catching big bass on the fly rod. While gushing over the flies Anthony brought, we forecast the coming striper season on the Cape, chat about beast flies, and discuss the parallels between cooking and fly tying. But mostly, I just gush over the flies Anthony […]
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In this episode, I chat with Rowan Lytle about big bass from shore on the fly, his extensive “life list” of fly caught fish, and his quest for a world record fish (sneak peak: he really wants to catch a record tautog on the fly).
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In this episode, we talk with Jamie Howard of Howard Films about his film, Running the Coast. We chat about the inception and process of creating the only film about stripers, the cast of characters he met along the way, and of course, the absurdity, insanity, and sleeplessness of the striper migration. Listen on Spotify […]
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The 2019 season in our little Bay was an interesting one. During certain windows, it was some of the best fishing we’ve ever had for stripers 40″ and up. The ‘Three Bays”—made up of Plymouth, Kingston, Duxbury—are an absolute mecca for light tackle and fly fishing. If you’ve never fished the many channels, rips, eelgrass […]
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It’s feeling like the end of something. This weekend, we’ll most likely get our last decent weather window to target some buzzer beater stripers. We’ll be out there, but I’m not sure what to expect. This has been a year of just that. I’m working on a season reflection now, but the patterns of […]
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Kinda feels like the end, doesn’t it? Well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. I keep getting the questions. Where are the fish going to be after the storm? Will it blow the migration out to sea? Scatter the bait? Push the concentration of bass from locations North down closer to the Cape? And to […]
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With albie fever seemingly breaking for the moment, it may be a good time to take a step back and talk about some strategies to make catching them just a little less frustrating. I, and pretty much everyone I’ve talked to, expect another large push of albies before the they make their final lap, but […]
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It’s an albie weekend. Again. We’re going to get some fly albies. Will they cooperate? Probably not. But I’m going to keep trying and trying and trying again until we get one to eat, because that’s the definition of insanity. Is this a wise decision—the decision to ignore our striped friends and a possible season-best […]
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