May 17, 2026

Stripers are here, tautog are biting, largemouth bass are stirring in the ponds — and MFCC members are all over it. Every week, anglers inside our forum are posting reports, sharing photos, swapping lure tips, and putting each other on fish. If you haven’t logged in lately — or if you’re not yet a member —

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Inside the MFCC Forum: What Members Have Been Catching So Far This Spring
May 15, 2026

If you’ve been waiting for a sign to dust off your rod, load up the truck, and make the drive to the Cape Cod Canal, this is it. According to AJ Coots of Red Top Sporting Goods in Buzzards Bay, the Canal has been producing striped bass at a pace that far exceeds what anglers saw at this same point in 2025. The fish are here, they’re hungry, and there are multiple ways to get them.

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From Quiet to Chaos: Cape Cod Canal Report with AJ Coots of Red Top
May 14, 2026

I could hear the birds before I even reached the water — that sharp, indignant cry cutting through the chilly northwest wind. By the time I got to the shoreline just after 9am, I could see them dipping and wheeling with that nervous energy that always means something is happening down there.On a gray, damp May

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Herring, Bass & the Perfect Rip: A Shore Fishing Report from Monday Morning
May 13, 2026

The 2026 Cape Cod fishing season is officially underway, and if this first report from Sam Mullen of the Goose Hummock Shop in Orleans is any indication, it’s shaping up to be a season worth getting excited about. From freshwater trout in the kettle ponds to migratory striped bass pushing through the Cape Cod Canal and Cape Cod Bay, there’s plenty of action to be had.

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First Cast Freshwater & Saltwater Report with Sam Mullen of the Goose Hummock
May 12, 2026

My first striped bass of the 2026 season — and she did not disappoint!In this video that was filmed on April 12th, I make the trek out to a hard-to-reach backwater spot on Cape Cod to chase holdover stripers before the main migration arrives. These are fish that have been quietly sitting in the warmest,

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This Hard-to-Reach Cape Cod Spot Gave Me My First Striper of the Season
May 10, 2026

This report was originally published in the Buzzards Bay category inside our members’ forum on May 5th, 2026. With the 2026 striper season opening its doors and reports of fresh migratory fish beginning to filter up the coast, there was only one place to be on this cold early-May evening — on the water.LOCATION:  Buzzards Bay DATE:

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Nine Hours in the Dead of Night: Buzzards Bay’s First Big Bass of 2026
May 9, 2026

It smelled like low tide and rotting green crab, the wind was howling at 30 knots out of the southwest, and my line was fouled with seaweed on nearly every cast.I was having a blast.30-knot winds out of the southwest made for challenging conditions on Buzzards Bay, May 4th.I arrived at the jetty at 1:45pm

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Tautog Are Here — But You’ll Have to Earn Them!
May 8, 2026

I pulled into the harbor at 9:30am and had the place almost entirely to myself. A few charter boats lingered at the docks waiting for their customers. A commercial mackerel boat eased in from the bay. Light drizzle tapped the water and an onshore wind pushed small ripples across the harbor. It was quiet — wonderfully, almost eerily quiet — in that way Cape Cod only is for a few more weeks before Memorial Day Weekend arrives and flips the switch.

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Winter Flounder, a Brand New SeaVee, and a Cape Cod Morning I Won’t Forget!
May 6, 2026

I pulled on my waders, grabbed the spinning rod and the fly rod, and made my way to the mouth of an estuary on the Lower Cape — the same system I’ve been fishing this spring, but this time closer to where it dumps into the bay, not back upstream where I was on April 13th and again on April 27th.

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She Ran East and Took My Line With Her | The Cape Cod Striper Season Is Waking Up
May 1, 2026

Everyone’s waiting for the big striper migration. The texts, the forum posts, the “are they here yet?” questions are already flooding in. And the honest answer is: the main push of fresh migratory striped bass has not yet arrived on Cape Cod. But there are bass here right now. Perhaps you’ve seen the photos in the

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I Woke Up at 3:15am to Fly Fish for Cape Cod’s Early Season Stripers — Here’s What I Found
April 29, 2026

Cape Cod isn’t just stripers and bluefish. In this video, I fish three different freshwater ponds across the Cape in roughly 24 hours — chasing stocked rainbows and Eastern Brook Trout in some of the most peaceful, overlooked corners of this peninsula.

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Spring Trout Fishing 3 Cape Cod Ponds in 24 Hours
April 26, 2026

The Insider Series brings you never-before-published seminar recordings from some of Cape Cod’s most respected charter captains and local anglers. These exclusive presentations were recorded at live My Fishing Cape Cod events but have remained in the vault—until now. Released monthly from November through May, these sessions provide essential winter education while you’re dreaming of the

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Insider Series #6: Rip Fishing, Pogies, and Offshore Tactics with Captains Tyler Putney and Cullen Lundholm