January 23, 2025

This spring My Fishing Cape Cod will be offering 9 trips for tautog with our friend captain Cullen Lundholm of Cape Star Charters! Members of My Fishing Cape Cod will be able to register for these tautog trips beginning on Saturday February 22nd at 9am sharp. I’m yet to finalize the price but spots will likely be

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2025 Springtime Tautog Trip Schedule
January 22, 2025

Hey Everyone 👋🏻 As we make it through the deep freeze and dream of top water blowups, I have a giveaway that I’m excited about because it’s also the introduction of a new product. The Z-step was introduced a couple years ago and many folks in the MFCC forum have enjoyed using them inshore, in back bay

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Z-Step XL Giveaway from Monomoy Tackle!
January 21, 2025

The winner of our fishing chart giveaway has been selected! We had 100 members enter this giveaway by making a post here inside our forum. Thank you all for entering. I will probably be able to giveaway more charts in the near future, so please stay tuned. In the meantime, Eddy of Monomoy Tackle is planning on

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Fishing Chart Giveaway – Winner Announced!
January 20, 2025

I am fortunate to call Cape Cod my home. I was born and raised in the small town of Orleans, where driving out on the “Outer Beach” (also known to many surfcasters as “The Great Beach”) was a Sunday tradition for my family. Although I never did much fishing from shore in my younger days,

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Surfcasting the Outer Cape During “The Spring Run”
January 19, 2025

*Please understand that this seminar was created years ago. While the vast majority of the information is still accurate, there’s a chance that parking and other things may have changed in certain areas.  Places mentioned in this seminar include:CanalEast End of the Canal (4:56)The Sandwich Bulkhead (7:32)Scusset Beach Fish Pier (8:34)Pleasant Point (10:28)Keith Field (11:51)Sagamore

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Easy Access Shore Fishing Spots
January 18, 2025

I know I keep it saying, but springtime will be here before we know it! And when spring does arrive, one early season fishery I am hoping materializes in 2025 is the nearshore haddock bite in Cape Cod Bay. Last year this bite never got going with any consistency, but in years past the fishing not

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Haddock Fishing during the Spring in Cape Cod Bay
January 17, 2025

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 from past seasons to help share

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Understanding Your Sonar 101
January 16, 2025

As a very, very small thank you for their service, members of MFCC have now sponsored annual memberships for a total of 15 veterans! Last week I sent out an email to all the veterans on my email list about how several members of My Fishing Cape Cod reached out to me asking to sponsor another

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Sponsored Memberships for Veterans | Most Recent Winners
January 15, 2025

In addition to exclusive videos, podcasts, forums and other content, My Fishing Cape Cod membership also gets you access to a growing number of member-only discounts! And today I’m happy to remind you about the member discount we have for the film “Running the Coast”. This film follows the striped bass migration up and down the

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The MFCC Members’ Discount for the Film “Running the Coast”
January 14, 2025

Let’s talk about the time I managed to turn a perfectly good striped bass into something even better – despite those impossibly tiny curry paste jars that seem designed by someone who’s never actually cooked before. But hey, who doesn’t love a good kitchen challenge, right?

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Cooking with Lauren: Thai Coconut Green Curry Striped Bass
January 13, 2025

The following is a detailed small craft checklist that was developed by captain Bob Hovey of Lousiana Bluewater Charter Company.  Bob created this checklist a number of years ago when he was living on Cape Cod and actively fishing these waters.  If you plan on boating off Cape Cod this season, then for safety’s sake it’d

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Cape Cod Boater’s Safety Checklist
January 8, 2025

I’m always surprised by the number of people who believe that the annual trout fishing season runs for only five or six months a year.  I’m often asked if I’m “anxious” to get back out on the water during the winter months. What these folks don’t realize is that there is no beginning or end to

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4 Techniques for Wintertime Trout Fishing on Cape Cod