October 24, 2026

Welcome to another October edition of the My Fishing Cape Cod Podcast presented by Cape & Islands Mitsubishi and The Olde Cape Carwash. In this podcast, we are joined by AJ Coots of Red Top Sporting Goods in Buzzards Bay.

AJ provides reports from both the Cape Cod Canal and Buzzards Bay regarding tautog and striped bass.

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Fall Run Full Moon Cape Cod Canal Report with AJ Coots of Red Top
October 21, 2026

I was standing on a bar 200 yards from dry land, in water that barely covered my boots, and there were striped bass swimming right in front of my feet.Whitewater in every direction. Peanut bunker in the wash. The backs and tails of stripers cutting through the foam close enough to touch.And an hour earlier, …

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Stripers at My Feet: Another Nor’easterBlitz in Less Than a Foot of Water 
October 20, 2026

Welcome to another fall run edition of the My Fishing Cape Cod Podcast presented by Cape & Islands Mitsubishi and The Olde Cape Carwash. In this episode, we are joined by Eddy Kooyomjian of Monomoy Tackle.

Ed provides positive reports on the fall run tautog fishery in both Buzzards Bay and Rhode Island and analyzes the year that was out at Monomoy.

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October Tautog & Monomoy Season Review with Eddy Kooyomjian of Monomoy Tackle
October 18, 2026

It’s easy to walk right past some of the best water on Cape Cod because it looks like any other pile of rocks.Today I want to share a secret. Boulder fields are fishy. Everyone knows that. But a boulder field with current sweeping through it is a different animal entirely. That’s where big striped bass …

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Find the Current, Find the Fish
October 16, 2026

Catch Episode 8 of the Monomoy Salwater Journal presented by Monomoy Tackle right here on My Fishing Cape Cod!

Captain Jay Cianciolo provides a full Newport and Narragansett report and describes his fall run charter trips as “some of the most insane topwater striper fishing of his life”.

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A Rhode Island Striper Season to Remember with Captain Jay Cianciolo
October 14, 2026

Eight inches of water. Dozens of striped bass.On the afternoon of October 7th, I returned to a Cape Cod beach after an incredible morning blitz and found hundreds of birds working over a bar at dead low tide. Below them, striped bass were chasing peanut bunker in water so shallow you could see every fish.I …

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Fly Fishing a Fall Striper Blitz in the Skinniest Water Imaginable
October 13, 2026

Welcome to another edition of the My Fishing Cape Cod Podcast presented by Cape & Islands Mitsubishi and The Olde Cape Carwash. In this podcast, we are joined by Sam Mullen of the Goose Hummock Shop in Orleans.

Sam gives a firsthand report on a productive fall run tautog fishery, surfcasting for fall run stripers, and exploring the freshwater kettle ponds of Cape Cod.

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Fall Run Tog Time with Sam Mullen of Team Goose Hummock
October 10, 2026

Welcome to another edition of the My Fishing Cape Cod Podcast presented by Cape & Islands Mitsubishi & The Olde Cape Carwash. In this podcast, we are joined by AJ Coots of Red Top Sporting Goods in Buzzards Bay.

AJ provides a report on the productive fall run Cape Cod Canal fishery as well as encouraging updates on Buzzards Bay regarding striped bass and false albacore.

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Buzzards Bay & Cape Cod Canal New Moon Report with AJ Coots of Red Top
October 9, 2026

The birds always know first. Wednesday, October 7th. Sunrise on Cape Cod Bay. Flat calm, a gentle swell rolling in, barely a whisper of wind. The tide had been coming in for about two hours, and the sky was doing that thing where it turns the whole bay pink and gold. Then I heard them. Terns screaming. Gulls …

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Popper, Bucktail, and Fly: A Cape Cod Fall Run Hat Trick
October 8, 2026

Welcome to another fall run edition of the My Fishing Cape Cod Podcast presented by Cape & Islands Mitsubishi and The Olde Cape Carwash. In this podcast, we are joined by Amy Wrightson of Sports Port in Hyannis.

Amy gives encouraging news that false albacore are still being caught from small boats and kayaks off south side beaches and the fall run has begun for striped bass and bluefish.

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October on the South Side with Amy Wrightson of Sports Port
October 7, 2026

Table of Contents The Run Nobody Else TriedLesson 1: Intel Beats SearchingLesson 2: Don’t Fish Where You Caught the BaitLesson 3: The RigThe Fish That Mattered MostWhat This Campaign Taught Me At 8 a.m. on Saturday, October 3rd, I stood on the dock at Sandwich Marina and listened to the wind. Northeast. Twenty-five miles per hour. Our …

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Into the Wind, Onto the Stripers: The HammerCat Giveaway Trip Report
October 3, 2026

Table of Contents Saturday 9/26: Find the LeeMonday 9/28: Trusting a HunchWednesday 9/30: The Fish That Said No ThanksWhy the Storm Was the Story On Saturday September 26th, the wind was gusting near 50 mph. Rain came sideways. And I had about two hours.Lauren was in Charleston with friends, I was solo-dadding our two-year-old, and …

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After the Nor’easter: Surfcasting for Stripers as the Dust Settles