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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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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Our beloved stripers are in a bad spot. But this isn’t about that. Not directly, anyways. I had never met Todd, co-founder of Dupe a Fish, in person. And I’d only met Geoff, local guide, rod builder, and tyer of Brackish Flies, once. But forecasted conditions for the morning were objectively fishy, to say the […]
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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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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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The Fall Run giveth and the Fall Run taketh away. And when she taketh away, it hurts. Some backstory…
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This brings us to last weekend. Two charter trips and two impromptu afternoon trips led to some of the best fishing of the year.
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The bass fishing has been as good as it’s ever been, according to some. Just not in Cape Cod Bay. Big bass found the pogie schools along the South Shore up to Boston in open water a few weeks ago and they have not relented. Charter captains and those lucky enough to get in on […]
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Fishing is figuring out the little things. Every once in a while–maybe once a season if you’re lucky–one tiny thing clicks that helps you understand how to catch stripers more consistently.
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If the striper season were a five-course meal, we’d be just about finishing our wedge salad and the server would be dropping sizzling 24oz New York Strip in front of us. Is that a good analogy? No, not at all. But it’s how I’m feeling right now. Sure, the bread was good. Soup and salad […]
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