In this episode, we chat with James Browne, Maine Striper Guide, about cracking the pogie school striper code from shore, throwing crab flies to stripers in Maine, and getting tuna to eat on the 14wt. Don’t miss this one.
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Report: Cape Cod Searun Brook Trout
Geoff seemed to have a sixth sense about spots where fish would be lurking, and he was usually right. Despite popping off the first brookie I had on the line, I quickly learned the tactics required to successfully hook and land these fish as we made our way downstream.
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Gear and Tactics: Trout fishing in the kettleponds
**3/13 Update: Trout have been stocked in a few Cape ponds! Head over to https://www.mass.gov/service-details/trout-stocking-report for details. *3/12 Update: No trout stocked yet. Will update when I hear about the trucks. Sean and I hit four ponds just off-Cape on Monday 3/11 and found them all locked up with ice. I’m thinking they should be […]
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This is spring
This is spring. This is the beginning of something. Work’s busy but I sneak out early, speeding down 195, shoving a granola bar into my mouth while narrowly avoiding speed traps and potential ten car pileups. At the state forest, I pull down an unmarked dirt road, overgrown even in the dead landscape of early […]
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Tactics and Gear: 12 Tips for stripers in Plymouth/Duxbury Bay
While it may not hold the promise of big fish on every outing like some other popular Cape Cod Bay striper locations, the light tackle and topwater fishing opportunities in the Three Bays are spectacular, even world-class. The bay is dynamic and complex and features almost every type of striper structure that we find in the Northeast. It’s a totally unique location. And most importantly, it holds lots of striped bass.
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Tactics and Gear: Stripers on the fly, Pt. 1
I had no idea what a ‘take’ was until I fooled my first striped bass on the fly. Sure, before that moment, I’d caught plenty of fish on a plug or a softbait and we can all agree that it’s a great feeling. Tough to beat a smashed plug on top and a nice hookset […]
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Tactics and Gear: Fly fishing
Listen, I’m by no means a #flygod (although someday I will be). In the timeline of fly rod immortality, I’m a mere babe. But I’ve put enough time in where I can preach the steps to becoming a respected angler on the river or flats. Before my acceptance of the fly gods, the old and the […]
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Steve Culton, Guide and Fly Tyer, Seven Stripes Podcast
Today, we chat with fly fishing extraordinaire, Steve Culton. Steve is a guide, fly tyer and acclaimed fly fishing writer, with works published in Field & Stream, American Angler, The Flyfish Journal, The Drake and Flyfishing & Tying Journal. We talk (the sometimes technical) trout fishing on the Farmington, catching stripers on the fly year-round, and using […]
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Fish Stories: Hooked
“Meet at the dock at 5 a.m.”
Or at least that was the plan. It was late May, and the first reports of migrating striped bass in Plymouth Bay were making their way around the local fishing community.
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Weekend Warrior: I’ve got albie fever and the only prescription is more albies
You heard me say it, folks. Wayyyyyy back in July. What a strange season. I’ll give the full season recap at a later date, after we’ve winterized the boat, the fish are all gone and I’m sitting on the couch super depressed. But the striper fishing died down a month ago and hasn’t heated up […]
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