July 6, 2026

Summer is in full swing on Cape, and today we wanted to remind you about The Weekly Spot – a service designed to help members explore different regions of the Cape and discover new productive waters. So many of you have been asking for guidance on specific areas and wanting to expand beyond your usual

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Continue to Uncover Cape Cod’s Best Fishing Spots
July 2, 2026

I’ve caught striped bass a hundred different ways — but this one felt brand new.After co-hosting our Zoominar with local flats guide Chris Kokorda on shallow water striper fishing, I’d been carrying a crab fly in my box for weeks, waiting for the right moment. That moment arrived on a foggy Monday morning in late

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Flats Fishing for Stripers with a Crab Fly — Video
June 29, 2026

The alarm went off at 3am and I was already awake.There are mornings on the water that you sense before they happen — something in the air the night before, a quiet anticipation that keeps you from sleeping too deeply. This was one of those mornings. By 3:30 I was loading gear in the dark,

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Stripers Gone Wild: Bass, Squid, and a Morning I Won’t Soon Forget
June 24, 2026

Five days, one secret bait, and the midday striper epiphany I wish I’d had years ago. “Adios,” I said to Lauren, kissing her on the cheek. “Adios,” I said to Carol, who’s been camped out with us for two weeks, up from her home in South Carolina to celebrate our daughter Hallie’s second birthday. It was

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You Don’t Have to Fish at Night — Try This Instead
June 22, 2026

We’re launching a brand giveaway today for My Fishing Cape Cod members, but before I tell you what you can win, you need to hear why these lures exist. A local 12-year-old boy learned that children his age were being used as slaves in the fishing industry—and some were drowning doing dangerous work underwater. He decided

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New Giveaway: The Father-Son Lure Company That Was Started to Save Lives
June 16, 2026

I set my alarm for 3 a.m. That’s the kind of decision that sounds crazy to most people, but anyone who has stood on a remote Cape Cod beach in the pale light before dawn — salt air in your lungs, miles of coastline stretching out ahead of you with no one else in sight —

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Stripers, Squid, and the Soul of Cape Cod
June 14, 2026

We left Bass River in the dark.Well, not quite dark — it was 6 a.m. at Smuggler’s Beach in South Yarmouth, and the sky was already doing that early June thing where the light comes on soft and pale, the kind of morning that makes you want to be on the water before you’ve even

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South of Nantucket: Chasing Doormat Fluke with Captain Jimmy the Greek
June 10, 2026

At 6:30 a.m. on June 1st — a full moon morning — MFCC member Grant Stark and I were backing down the ramp at Bass River alongside Captain Tyler Putney of Flatliner Charters. The air was light, the water had a gentle chop, and Nantucket Sound stretched out in front of us quiet and silver

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Full Moon, Herring, and a “Giant Squid” : Striped Bass on Nantucket Sound
June 6, 2026

In a sea of social media and online forums, the My Fishing Cape Cod Surfcasters’ Threads stand as a beacon for anglers who have a passion for fishing the surf.Founded in 2020 by longtime MFCC member and Barnstable resident Mike Marcus (“StriperMadness”), what started as a simple conversation has evolved into a vibrant micro-community here

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Top 10 Benefits of the MFCC Surfcasters’ Thread: A Beacon for Cape Cod Anglers
June 5, 2026

On a chilly May morning, with a north wind in my face, I arrived at a Cape Cod estuary to find one of the most beautiful rip setups I’ve seen. Fast water on one side. Dead calm on the other. A perfect seam — with herring likely moving through it.I started with a topwater and

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The Forgotten Lure That Still Crushes Striped Bass — Magic Swimmer Shore Fishing on Cape Cod
June 3, 2026

The second annual Spring Edition of the My Fishing Cape Cod 36hr Grind Surfcasting Tournament is in the books — and it delivered one of the most memorable weekends in the tournament’s history.Fifteen teams took to Cape Cod’s beaches from Friday, May 29th through Sunday, May 31st, chasing striped bass in a catch-and-release format. Anglers

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Spring 36hr Grind Results: Big Fish, Bigger Weather, and One Unforgettable Weekend
May 29, 2026

May 7th, 2026 started as a quiet, drizzly morning — and ended with a cooler full of some of the biggest winter flounder I’ve ever seen. In this video I join Captain Jimmy “The Greek” Koutalakis aboard his brand new 37-foot SeaVee center console for a morning of winter flounder fishing on Cape Cod. Captain Jim

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[VIDEO] Fishing with Captain Jimmy “The Greek”: Winter Flounder, Underwater Footage, and a Limit in 2.5 Hours