This week, we chat with Ryan Collins, founder of My Fishing Cape Cod. We talk about how to become a successful striper angler if you’re just getting started, the importance of being a social fisherman, and the striper season on Cape Cod in review.
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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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“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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We’re getting there, folks. The season is wrapping up. The fishing will rise to a crescendo somewhere between two weeks ago and the end of this month, before falling to the silence of the off-season. The trout fishing will remain good through the end of the year, but the fish that we’ve gotten so used […]
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The fishing was unbelievable this weekend for Johnny Mack’s bachelor party. We caught countless monster albies, a couple trophy barracudas (Chuckie Humpback is getting his mounted) and Johnny even caught…you guessed it, a 28-inch mackerel. King mackerel, that is. In case you don’t follow us on Instagram, we were in fact in Miami last […]
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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 […]
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At this point last year, miles of migrating micro and schoolie-sized striped bass had invaded the rivers, estuaries and ocean fronts of Buzzards and Cape Cod Bays. This year? Not so much. But I just need to keep telling myself this, as I pour over blue-colored water temperature maps and reports reading “not here yet:” […]
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No two days spent fishing are ever the same. This is especially true when dealing with trout, for one reason or another. But it’s what keeps us coming back, time and time and frustrating time again. Last week, we had a day that finally felt like Spring. I was thinking that the stocked trout might […]
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I’m going to gush for a second. This time of year–this exact moment in the fishing season–is so cool. I just finished reading my fishing reports and scouring the online forums for any recent reports of outings, and I’m sitting here on my couch smiling. Honestly. There’s just such optimism in our little fishing sphere […]
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We have real options this weekend! Sort of… Stick with me here. First and foremost, for me, will be trout. All major ponds and rivers in our area have been stocked. I’ve heard rumors of some browns and ‘bows in the four-pound range taken out of Peters, Mashpee-Wakeby, and Long Pond (Plymouth). So, if you’re […]
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