There’s a whole ocean of 20″ to 26″ inch stripers out there! But where are the larger fish? Well, let’s dig into it. Before we get into that, in very exciting 7S news, get ready to see some videos of our fishing adventures. 7S video producer and new fishing buddy Chris P and I headed […]
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And by chickens, I mean feeding, dive bombing, screeching birds. Thousands of them! This week, the bait fuse was lit across Buzzards Bay, the Southside, and Cape Cod Bay. And of course, waves of migratory bass followed. We really have two major size classes all the way from Buzzards Bay to Boston right now– 22″ […]
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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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April’s Fly of the Month Club is brought to you by Dan Wells. I wanted to start by saying I consider myself an “adaptive” fly tier not an “innovator”. All of the flies I have created that are “new” are all from blending together elements of existing patterns that I have learned from “innovative” fly […]
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Can you feel it? It feels like it’s getting to be striper time. Let’s go catch some. Folks are split on whether or not this mild winter will drastically affect the migration of our striped friends. My thoughts? I don’t think we’ll be getting anything crazy like migratory fish the first week in April, but […]
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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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Anthony Cole, Executive Chef over at Chatham Bars Inn, guest on this week’s Seven Stripes pod, and overall very fishy dude, is a man who likes to catch bass on squid flies. So really, he’s just like all of us. There are lots of ways to catch striped bass–and they’re all fun (except trolling). But […]
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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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Well, it happened this week. Every season, there’s a moment you think back on and wish you did something just a little differently. A little Monday morning quarterbacking, if you will. Well, this one hurt. The blitzes this week in the Three Bays were pretty ridiculous, lasting almost two entire tides each day. The fish […]
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In this podcast, we talk native Searun Brook Trout. Following up a trip to a local Cape Cod stream, Sean and Geoff talk the struggles of adjusting to small stream tactics, the importance of caring for these rare and elusive fish, and the super secret streams that hold big trout. Hint: you’ve heard of them […]
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