The bass pictured above, the one Captain Bill is struggling to hold up? Yeah, we probably shouldn’t have caught it. Maybe once or twice a season, you get a shot at a fish like this. And if you’re lucky, everything goes right and you land it. When you do get the shot, you better not […]
Read moreReport: Fishing the High Hook Striper Tournament
Saturday was an early wake up for a 4am lines-in-the-water call. Radio chatter and smack-talk began around 4:15am. But this is the fun part about fishing a tournament. The less-than-fun part is getting out front and meeting a nice 15-20kt wind and a 2-3 foot chop. And man that wind was cold. But, we sucked it […]
Read moreWeekend Warrior: New moon, new you
This is the week, peeps. Listen, I know the fishing has been very hit or miss so far this season. But the new moon will continue bringing new schools of large stripers into our waters. It’s just about where they’ll show up. While I don’t want to contribute to the zoo that has been the Big Ditch […]
Read moreReport: The cows have come home
Fishing is all about expectations. As we pulled away from the Gurnet to steam across the Bay, false dawn still hanging heavy in the air, with an empty livewell, my expectations were low. My low expectations for the day, it turned out, would end up being wildly wrong. The striper season has been hit-or-miss so […]
Read moreLong Weekend Warrior: They’re Baaaack
And by they, I of course mean your relatives at your long weekend cookout (just kidding–I’m talking about keeper stripers). Just when we were starting to get nervous, big fish pushed into our Bay last week. The Report The fishing has been straight out. If I didn’t have a job and other obligations I think […]
Read moreHigh Hook Striper Tournament, Seven Stripes Fishing Podcast
In this podcast, I talk to the guys organizing the High Hook Striper Tournament on June 16th. Additional information can be found at highhookusa.com Music: New Places by Nicolai Heidlas | https://www.nicolai-heidlas.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Read moreWeekend Warrior: The magic number is 50 (degrees)
Stripers, stripers, stripers. It’s all I’m thinking about. But where are they? That’s the real question. Well, I think I have good news. I’m willing to bet that we’ll all know the answer to this question by the time the weekend is over. Spring Migration We always picture the Spring migration as a wave […]
Read moreFish Stories: August Topwater Mayhem
It took some time, but I finally convinced my fiancé, Gelany, to fish on the boat with me at a relatively fishing-centric hour. No, we didn’t catch the pre-dawn bite. We didn’t even get the dawn bite. But we did have lines in the water at a respectable 6:30am, (which, she still complained was still […]
Read moreCapt. Dave Bitters, Seven Stripes Fishing Podcast
In this podcast, Capt. Dave Bitters (owner and operator of Baymen Guide Services) and I sit down to chat about fishing Plymouth and Cape Cod Bay, the romance of fly fishing, and becoming one with the outdoors. Listen to this podcast if you want to learn what it means to catch fish in Cape Cod […]
Read morePast Report: June New Moon
Something strange happens around the new moon in June. The waters off Cape Cod, already full of migrating and year-of-young life, explode in a cacophony of energy. The bay becomes crowded. It’s a time of year in which you’d do almost anything to get just a few hours out on that new summer ocean. Alarms […]
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