In this episode, we chat with Capt. Joe Diorio of Joe Diorio Guide Service about big bass. Joe also talks blurred out surfcasting background photos, comes clean about his albie and steelhead obsessions and of course, tells the story of his 72-pound striper. Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
Read moreBrian Coombs (Part 3) Talks Monster Stripers in 2020, Podcast
In this episode, we chat with Capt. Brian Coombs of Get Tight Sportfishing. And we’re talking big stripers. Capt. Coombs outlines his strategy for locating large pelagic bass on topwater, giving location and searching tips for finding the biomass. He also unveils the new Get Tight boat for 2021 and beyond. Don’t miss this one! […]
Read moreJerry Audet on Surf Stripers, Podcast
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 […]
Read moreSam Stavis Reviews the 2020 Striper Season, Podcast Part II
In this episode, we chat with Sam Stavis about surf stripers in the weirdest year we’ve ever had: 2020. We chat 30-pound bass on mackerel tight to rocks, surfcasting, estuary fishing, and rock hopping strategies. Sam also gives his pick for MVP lure of the season. Surfcasters: listen to this one. You can listen to […]
Read moreWeekend Warrior: And that’s all she wrote (sort of)
The fall run appears to be dwindling to a trickle, just in time for the first flakes of snow to reach the New England earth. But even while I type this, I’m checking tide stage and wind direction for tomorrow in one last foray into the back bays to search out late fall run stragglers […]
Read moreWeekend Warrior: Fall Run Fiesta
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 […]
Read moreWeekend Warrior: There will be wind
This is the time of year when it begins creeping into your head like a smoke signal from some far off fire–the inevitability that all of this is going to end soon. The season seems long and sprawling and in May, the whole thing stretches out in front of your, past where you can see […]
Read moreWeekend Warrior: Redemption Song
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. […]
Read moreWeekend Warrior: R.E.F.L.E.C.T.
Time to R.E.F.L.E.C.T, and find out what it means to me (points if you sung that in your head). Considering this weekend is right around the midpoint of the striper season, the weather is going to be crap, and I’m just about reaching that point of total frustration with striper fishing where I thought seriously […]
Read moreJune Striper Update: Casting ’til your arms fall off
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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