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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Through the recent restoration and conservation efforts of Southeastern MA Trout Unlimited, The Lyman Reserve Trustees, and other like-minded organizations, Red Brook in Wareham MA has flourished into one of the only streams in Massachusetts with a thriving and sustaining sea run brook trout population. An attempt to change zoning laws adjacent to the preserved […]
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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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In this episode, we chat with Jerry Audet of In Deep Outdoors about nightshift surf stripers. Jerry gives a masterclass on finding productive structure (especially boulderfields) and gives us a peek into his striper obsession. He also gives the one type of plug that you need to have in your bag if you want to […]
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Well this has been an eventful few weeks, to say the least. We’re livin’ and breathin’ the fall run over here in Seven Stripes land! Slot stripers, frothing albie feeds, and giant Charlie and his smaller blitzing counterparts have graced our paths in the last stages of this saltwater fishing season. These past few weeks […]
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In first episode of Season 3, we talk albies albies albies with Peter Jenkins of the Saltwater Edge. We hit on strategies from boat and shore, gear, hot lures, and fly fishing tactics. We also talk American Saltwater Guides Association and the striper season so far. It’s good to be back! New episodes coming soon. […]
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Albie fishing, as anyone who has targeted the little torpedoes from hell for any number of seasons knows, will eventually give way to “albie casting.” This is how I felt last week in the flat calm, boat traffic-riddled Upper Buzzards Bay, as the albies casually crashed around us and completely ignored every offering we threw […]
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Gimme that fall run magic! I’ve got fall run fever. There, I said it. Sometime in the next few weeks, a cool breeze will sweep through our bay, the humidity will get sucked out of the air, tiny year-of-young peanuts, silversides, and herring will appear, and the proverbial fall blitz will commence. And down South […]
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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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Well, that was not the June we’ve grown accustomed to. Remember when Cape Cod Bay in June was pretty much as sure a thing as you’d ever get in this whole fishing thing? I do. And I’m bummed she didn’t produce much at all this month. The good news is the big bass are around, […]
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