July 20, 2017

On the evening of July 14th big stripers were swirling all around my kayak, and it was obvious to me that most of the fish were 35 pounds or larger. This was a serious school of cow striped bass, and I wondered if my 9 weight fly rod could handle these huge fish! Just then a giant

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46in Cape Cod Striper on the Fly Rod
July 15, 2017

Ryan Collins This July my friend Jason and I have been catching big striped bass during broad daylight from our 12ft tin boat.With no sonar or GPS, catching big fish from the tin boat is definitely a more “primal” fishing experience, which is proving to be a ton of fun! I grew up fishing with

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Big Mid-July Stripers from the 12ft Tin Boat
July 10, 2017

Ryan Collins Summer is a special time to be a fisherman on Cape Cod. The fishing can be incredible, especially when bass school up on sand eels. This past June, massive schools of sand eels poured into Billingsgate Shoal during the month of June. This sparked prolonged topwater feeds as stripers slurped them off the surface.  Back on

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Fishing Billingsgate Shoal with Laura Jay Charters
June 10, 2017

Ryan Collins Yesterday morning while fishing a shallow water sandbar off Cape Cod, a school of hundreds of striped bass appeared from out of nowhere and began circling around my feet.Most of the fish were schoolies but I did see some bass in the 40 inch class swimming in about 3 feet of water just

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Hundreds of Striped Bass in 3ft of Water off Cape Cod
May 24, 2017

Shane Uriot On Sunday May 21st I was fortunate enough to head out on the MFCC group trip with Captain Cullen from Cape Star Charters. I arrived at the dock at 10 o’clock, and the group was already anxiously waiting for me on the boat. I made my way down the dock as quickly as I could,

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Topwater Stripers Feasting on Sand Eels
December 10, 2016

So far this December, in my annual search for the elusive holdover striped bass, my best success has been realized via kayak in the Sandwich & Barnstable area. In particular, trolling from the Hobie kayak has been hands down the most effective strategy for locating and catching holdover stripers. This is the technique I used to locate

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Trolling For Holdover Stripers On Cape Cod
October 25, 2016

If you follow the Canal Today thread in our forum, then you’ll see folks are still catching schoolies, with the occasional keeper mixed in.

There have also been scattered reports of larger bass up to 30 pounds being seen and caught in the canal area over the past week.
Without a doubt, large stripers have become much more scarce and difficult to find all throughout Cape Cod and the Islands. However you still have a chance of hooking into a fish with some shoulders.

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Schoolie Stripers Still Abundant On Cape Cod
October 23, 2016

The striper fishing for me the past 72 hours has been challenging.

There have been some good pushes of fish through parts of the Cape (we’ll talk about that later) but for me the fishing has been very hit and miss.
On Thursday night I had this decent trip jigging on Cape with 8 bass up to 30 inches. On Friday and Saturday I decided to head off Cape and explore Plymouth Bay via kayak.

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Surfcasting & Kayaking Plymouth Bay
September 28, 2016

Ryan Collins Some of the biggest bluefish of the entire season have showed up the past few days here on Cape Cod. These are “gator” bluefish over the 10 pound mark with some specimens pushing 15+ pounds. In this post I would like to share with you another drone surfcasting video filmed by my friend Zach

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Gator Bluefish in the Cape Cod Surf
September 26, 2016

Ryan Collins The much talked about “fall run” is certainly underway here on Cape Cod. Yesterday I was fortunate to encounter stellar surfcasting despite very windy, and very rough conditions. I had an entire crew of great people with me yesterday including my friend Dave Steeves from the Goose Hummock Shop in Orleans, and my drone-flying friend

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Big Bass in the Cape Cod Surf
August 16, 2016

Ryan Collins It all started with a text from Zach Lesinski of 2020 Sky Sight Productions, asking if I wanted to do some fishing and drone filming. 48 hours later I stumbled across a huge concentration of large striped bass while performing recon onboard my boat the Miss Loretta. I immediately messaged Zach and told him we should meet

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44 Pound Striped Bass Filmed On Drone
August 12, 2016

Kevin Collins Hello and welcome to another edition of the MFCC Podcast. This is your host Kevin Collins and it’s a pleasure to be back with you for the 18th episode of the 2016 season. We have an action packed show for you this week so let’s get down to it!

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Stripers To 56 Pounds | Cape & Islands Weekend Report