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I arrived at the dock at 5:45 as my fellow MFCC crew members were strolling toward Capt. Cullen’s boat. I also saw Ryan getting ready to launch his kayak. He wouldn’t be joining us today, but it was good seeing him after a long winter. The cool temperatures of early May on Cape Cod were evident …
Lauren Collins I hope you enjoyed this weekend’s tautog fishing episode on My Fishing Cape Cod TV! Not only was it my big debut in front of the camera, but also my big debut going tautog fishing. Leading up to this episode, I had been told that tautog were in thick and heavy, so I knew …
Ryan Collins It was late summer on Cape Cod and we were in the midst of an intense heat wave. All week long the mornings had been greasy flat calm and the afternoons scorching hot. Leading up to the day of filming of episode 3, I had run several successful tube and worm trips on my …
Ryan CollinsThe town of Falmouth has great fishing for stripers, bluefish, fluke and false albacore. I got my first taste of boating off Falmouth in elementary school, when my dad brought my family and I to Cuttyhunk. The island of Cuttyhunk (and the entire Elizabeth Island archipelago) sits just to the west of Falmouth. Boating and …
Ryan CollinsDuring this tautog fishing trip we filmed a new episode of My Fishing Cape Cod TV, and my wife Lauren ended up catching the biggest tautog of the day! If you read this report from the weekend then you already know there are a lot of tautog (especially juvenile tautog) hanging out in the shallow …
Ryan CollinsDuring the fall tautog (also called blackfish) invade shallow water rock piles in big numbers. These hard fighting fish are fun to catch and taste delicious! Recently I decided it was time to break out the tog gear and try my luck at some rock piles. It had been months since my last tautog trip and …
Ryan CollinsI know some of you reading this are probably saying to yourselves, “Ryan what do you mean bruiser bluefish finally showed up? I’ve been catching them all season long!” Well that is terrific for you ✌?However big bluefish have been hard to come by this season for me! The weather the past 10 days here on …
Ryan Collins The Cape Cod Salties, a sport fishing organization that dates back to 1962, has a plan to enlarge the Yarmouth Tire Reef, also called the “Tire Pile.” The Salties are going to enlarge the reef by adding demolition debris from the bridge that once carried the railroad over the northern part of Bass River, …
Ryan Collins One can only imagine how good the fishing must of been in Plymouth Bay when the Pilgrims first arrived in 1620. In fact, General William Bradford even wrote that it was possible to walk across Plymouth Bay on the backs of striped bass. The early settlers even fed 3-4 foot long lobsters to their …
Ryan Collins My first experience striped bass fishing the town of Dennis occurred when I was a young teenager, maybe 13 or 14 years old. My dad had purchased a 12ft tin boat powered by a 6hp Johnson engine, and he decided it would be fun to pile his family into the boat for an epic …
Ryan Collins Barnstable Harbor is a tropical paradise during the middle of the summer. On a bright sunny day the crystal clear waters take on a turquoise glow that can make you feel like you’re in the Caribbean. Just about everywhere you look in Barnstable Harbor feels as if it was a scene taken straight from …
Ryan Collins Over the past four days I’ve fished with 12 members of My Fishing Cape Cod. We’ve fly fished, surf cast, and live-lined mackerel to stripers of up to 40lbs. These trips are part of the limited number of custom guided trips I am offering this season to My Fishing Cape Cod members. These trips …
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