June 26, 2012

The fishing today was not great, however I'm going to blame it on the weather! We had to depart from Billingsgate Shoal due to an increasing NW wind, but on the way back to Barnstable I swung in over the southern edge of the Shoal.  I did mark quite a ...

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Billingsgate Shoal
June 22, 2012

Cape Cod Bay I would recommend checking out a few areas in the Bay this weekend.  The fishing has been good so I would expect there to be some decent action throughout Saturday and Sunday. The Square off Billingsgate Shoal has been fishing well, with a few slow days mixed ...

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Extended Weekend Fishing Forecast | June 23-24
June 15, 2012

Cape Cod Canal The Canal has been seeing waves of bass moving through all spring.  The highlight of the entire season may have happened one week ago when the Canal went absolutely crazy. Guys were catching 20-40 pound bass literally from 6AM to 6PM straight.  The entire food chain was ...

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Extended Weekend Fishing Forecast | June 16-17
June 11, 2012

Cape Cod Fishing Reports Hooked up! with another beautiful Cape Cod striper. The epic live mackerel fishing continued yesterday for Chris, Al, Charlie and myself. I met Chris last fall when he was still searching for his first ever striped bass.  Chris spent the winter reading up on anything and ...

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Epic Tinker Bass Bite | June 10 Report
June 11, 2012

We continued catching bass yesterday as the tide dropped.  We eventually ran out of live macks and resorted to using fresh dead tinkers.  The dead mackerel continued to produce just as well as the livies. If you haven't already guessed, we were again fishing Barnstable Harbor.  The action inside B-harbor ...

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Barnstable Harbor Main Channel
June 8, 2012

It's nice to finally see the sun again, and I'm crossing my fingers that the good weather lasts right on through this weekend.  We are certainly due for some beach weather, so hopefully tomorrow and Sunday turn out to be just that. If you head out fishing this weekend, you ...

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Extended Fishing Forecast | June 9-10
May 24, 2012

Fishing around boulders is a good way to increase your odds of at least catching a bass or two. After a day of not fishing I was starting to go through withdrawals so I made a concerted effort to get out for an hour tonight.  I didn't have much time ...

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Barnstable’s Schoolie Striper Hot Spot | May 24 Report
May 24, 2012

I had always heard stories growing up about the great schoolie striper fishing at Scudder Lane.  It only took me about 20 years but I finally made it down there tonight. This is a really cool place with easy access and plenty of fishing options.  There is even a tide ...

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Scudder Lane
May 20, 2012

The Worcester crew killed it today! If only every trip could be this fun and productive! I met Anthony, Tom and Adrian this morning at 4AM.  The guys were all fired up and so was I.  We had picturesque, flat calm, crystal clear conditions.  Needless to say the morning had ...

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Best Trip of the Year So Far | May 20 Report
May 15, 2012

This guy engulfed this poor mackerel. It's an exciting time of the season to go fishing off Cape Cod. I heard numerous reports today of guys catching over 400 pounds of mackerel.  That is a TON of mackerel.  I can only imagine how messy their boats were! Mackerel infiltrate the ...

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Live Mack Barnstable Harbor Spring-time Bite
May 8, 2012

Cape Cod Fishing Report | May 8 Josh with a beauty on the line. I had a good feeling about today. It all started last night when I was rigging up gear for this morning's live mackerel striped bass fishing trip.  As I tied up hooks in my basement, I ...

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Lots of Keepers and Tons of Macks | May 8 Report
May 7, 2012

Last night's fishing was a lot of fun to say the least. It's hard to beat fishing under a full moon with flat calm conditions.  On top of that I had a great fishing partner! We were fishing the Boardwalk in Sandwich, also known as Old Harbor.  This is a ...

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Targeting Stripers from Shore in Sandwich