January 23, 2012

Hi everyone! With it being the middle of the winter and all, I figured now is a great time to break out our best photos from the 2011 fishing season. The contest is simple.  Send in your best fishing photo from this past season with a brief description. The 5 most amazing and interesting entries

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2012 Photo Contest – win free stuff !
January 20, 2012

On a nice day, fishing the flats of Barnstable Harbor is more like fishing the Florida Keys than fishing Cape Cod. Stripers cruise in foot deep water, much like Florida’s famous bonefish. The water takes on a torquoise color that extends for miles in every direction. Under a summer sun tidal pools warm up to

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The Barnstable Flats
January 11, 2012

Over the past two seasons Chatham has held one of the largest bio-masses of striped bass Cape Cod fishermen have ever seen. It is hard to say why these enormous schools of striped bass have chosen Chatham over other Cape Cod striped bass fishing hot spots.  There has been an absurd amount of bait present

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Chatham
January 1, 2012

Finding a good place to fish is the most challenging and important aspect of any fishing trip. The best gear and most effective baits won’t catch a thing if there are no fish in the area you are fishing. Therefore it’s important to develop a strategy for finding productive waters. Entire books have been written

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Strategically Use Sonar to Find Big Stripers
January 1, 2012

Viewed on a chart Billingsgate Shoal is the most noticeable and extensive are of structure inside Cape Cod Bay. The Shoal extends from a few miles north of Dennis’ Sesuit Harbor to northernmost point of Wellfleet. Back in the 1800’s a small village of houses was located on Billingsgate Island which once sat just outside

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Billingsgate Shoal
January 1, 2012

It seems that each season striped bass select a different Cape Cod location to infiltrate in amazing numbers. Said another way, certain areas on the Cape fish incredibly well one season while past hot spots quiet down a bit. During 2010 and 2011 the indisputable striper hot spot was the area off Chatham. The fishing

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Provincetown’s Striper Hot Spot: The Bath House