February 9, 2019

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 ...

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Behind The Scenes Of Episode #5 | Tautog Fishing With My Wife
January 29, 2019

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 were scorching hot. Leading up to the day of filming of episode 3 I had run several ...

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Behind the Scenes of Epsiode #3: Fishing with My Mom
December 24, 2018

Ryan Collins The 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 ...

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My 2 Favorite Boat Ramps In Falmouth
October 16, 2018

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) ...

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Tautog Fishing With The Wife
October 14, 2018

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!This week I finally decided it was time to break out the tog gear and try my luck at some rock piles. It had ...

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Tautog (Blackfish) Are Here In Good Numbers
September 26, 2018

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 ...

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Bruiser Bluefish Finally Show Up
July 26, 2018

Ryan CollinsThe 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 ...

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Help To Enlarge The Yarmouth Artificial Reef
July 16, 2018

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 ...

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4 Little Known Secrets About Fishing Plymouth Bay
July 2, 2018

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 ...

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Striped Bass Fishing The Town Of Dennis, MA
June 25, 2018

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 ...

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Fishing Barnstable Harbor During The Summer
June 24, 2018

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 ...

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Fly Fishing The Surf, To Live-Lining Macks to 40lb Bass | June 24 Report
June 12, 2018

Ryan CollinsOver the past seven days I've fished with ten members of My Fishing Cape Cod. All of these trips have had the same goal - to catch fish and to learn about specific techniques and areas.These trips are part of the limited number of custom guided trips I am ...

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A Memorable Week Of Fishing With Members | June 12 Fishing Report