January 24, 2024

In this post I am going to share with you some ideas, tactics and secrets that I think will help you experience success winter striped bass fishing much quicker than I did!If you are looking to learn about how to catch holdover striped bass during the winter, then this blog ...

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Winter Striper Fishing and Holdover Striped Bass Secrets
October 5, 2023

Sonar has helped me tremendously, and it's definitely made finding and catching fish much easier. However, a part of me wishes that sonar did not exist.I feel that the “old school” fishing knowledge that was centered around wind, tides, weather, and a certain kind of “instinct” is no longer as ...

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How To Use Side-Scan Sonar
June 3, 2021

One year ago on June 4th 2020, I had a unique opportunity to film and photograph a school of hundreds of striped bass as they hunted sand eels along the bottom and on the surface. In this video, we primarily utilized epoxy jigs which closely imitated the profile of the ...

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Early June Striper Fishing on Cape Cod
March 17, 2020

​ In this segment, we visit one of the Cape & Islands pristine coastline habitats. This clip originally aired during the March 14th episode of My Fishing Cape Cod TV. Throughout Cape Cod and the Islands, there are places where nature is allowed to do her thing. Pristine habitats like ...

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Angler Education: Pristine Striped Bass Habitats
March 16, 2015

The temperature was cold and snow was falling, on a late winter day nearly 10 years ago. My cousin Kevin and I were trudging through a muddy estuary on Cape Cod, in search of holdover stripers.​Catching holdover stripers on Cape Cod had, up until this point, been a cold and ...

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Targeting Early-Season Stripers On Cape Cod
July 23, 2014

Having sonar (AKA "fish-finder") on your boat is no guarantee that you'll actually find fish! Like anything else, sonar is a tool and the more expertise you have with sonar, the better you'll be at using it to find and catch fish. In this post I will use sonar snapshots ...

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Understanding Your Sonar 101
June 20, 2014

This past week I was fortunate to connect with a couple nice schools of striped bass while fishing from shore. You can learn more about those experiences by checking out these two Cape Cod fishing reports from this week: Cape Cod Fishing Report June 17 | A Perfect Night On ...

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3 Simple Ways To Tell Which Tide Fishes Best
September 7, 2013

I often catch myself imagining what fishing on Cape Cod was like “way back when.” I like to picture Cape Cod without the bridges and marinas, when it was still a wild place. Can you imagine what the fishing must have been like 1,000 years ago? It may be difficult ...

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Fishing the Cape without Electronics | how to find & catch fish
May 23, 2013

With each passing day, fresh schools of striped bass are arriving and feeding on Cape Cod, like voracious tourists piling into an Old Country Buffet. Reliable reports of larger surf and boat bass weighing more than 20 pounds, have begun spreading like wildfire throughout the region. If you plan on ...

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3 Ways to Catch a Striper this Memorial Day Weekend
April 12, 2013

This past week’s "warm" weather should help spark Cape Cod’s saltwater fishing scene. One fish in particular, the river herring, will soon be found in good numbers within Cape Cod’s many estuaries, rivers and ponds. ...

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How to Hook Stripers by Zoning in on River Herring
December 31, 2012

First off Happy New Year!  I hope you have a great time tonight ringing in 2013.  Stay safe and have fun. With 2013 now upon us, it is time to start thinking about the upcoming Cape Cod fishing season.  2012 was a phenomenal year on Cape Cod for striped bass ...

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Fish Where the Fish are in 2013
September 16, 2012

Striped bass fishing can be a downright overwhelming task. Then again there are those days when the bass just seem to find the fishermen. One particular trip during the middle of August 2010 could certainly be classified as one of those rare occasions when big striped bass are easy to come ...

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Understanding Striped Bass Behavior