July 25, 2026

Busting the Midday Myth There’s a common myth in fishing that in the heat of summer, you can’t catch stripers from shore during the daytime on Cape Cod — especially in the mud-bottomed backwaters. But I left my house yesterday on July 24th with the goal of proving otherwise.My tool of choice was my 8wt

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Fly Fishing Cape Cod’s Backwaters with Crab Flies in the Midday Heat
July 20, 2026

*This report was originally published on July 31st, 2018. Today I’ve decided to re-publish this post, because sharks can be caught June-September from shore throughout the Cape & Islands. For years now I have heard about people catching sharks from the beaches of Cape Cod. In fact, Ryan Franklin and other members from My Fishing

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Shark Fishing on Cape Cod from Shore
July 9, 2026

Welcome to another summer 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 Ian McPartland of the Goose Hummock in Orleans.

Ian has been hitting the beaches of Cape Cod hard over the holiday weekend and the during the northeast blow earlier this week. He delivers reports on Cape Cod Bay, Provincetown, the backside beaches, and the south side.

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Summer Surfcasting Report with Ian McPartland of the Goose Hummock
June 16, 2026

I set my alarm for 3 a.m. That’s the kind of decision that sounds crazy to most people, but anyone who has stood on a remote Cape Cod beach in the pale light before dawn — salt air in your lungs, miles of coastline stretching out ahead of you with no one else in sight —

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Stripers, Squid, and the Soul of Cape Cod
June 11, 2026

Welcome to another 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 Sam Mullen of the Goose Hummock Shop in Orleans, Massachusetts.

Sam provides a complete surfcasting report with information on Cape Cod Bay, the backside facing beaches, and the south side. He covers striped bass, bluefish, and sea bass in a variety of locations.

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What’s Biting Now: A Mid-June Cape Cod Report with Sam Mullen
May 23, 2026

Memorial Day weekend on Cape Cod has anglers catching big striped bass inside Cape Cod Bay and smaller, but more aggressive fish along the south side. Ian McPartland of the Goose Hummock updates us on bass behavior, bait, water temperature, and tidal conditions.

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Elephants Eating Peanuts with Ian McPartland of the Goose Hummock
May 22, 2026

I fished the flats of Cape Cod Bay three times this week — Monday, Thursday, and again this morning — and each trip felt like a completely different season. Summerlike warmth and a massive low tide on Monday, a cool drizzly northeast vibe by Thursday, and howling wind at high tide this morning. Three very different

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Three Days on the Flats
May 13, 2026

The 2026 Cape Cod fishing season is officially underway, and if this first report from Sam Mullen of the Goose Hummock Shop in Orleans is any indication, it’s shaping up to be a season worth getting excited about. From freshwater trout in the kettle ponds to migratory striped bass pushing through the Cape Cod Canal and Cape Cod Bay, there’s plenty of action to be had.

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First Cast Freshwater & Saltwater Report with Sam Mullen of the Goose Hummock
May 9, 2026

It smelled like low tide and rotting green crab, the wind was howling at 30 knots out of the southwest, and my line was fouled with seaweed on nearly every cast.I was having a blast.30-knot winds out of the southwest made for challenging conditions on Buzzards Bay, May 4th.I arrived at the jetty at 1:45pm

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Tautog Are Here — But You’ll Have to Earn Them!
May 6, 2026

I pulled on my waders, grabbed the spinning rod and the fly rod, and made my way to the mouth of an estuary on the Lower Cape — the same system I’ve been fishing this spring, but this time closer to where it dumps into the bay, not back upstream where I was on April 13th and again on April 27th.

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She Ran East and Took My Line With Her | The Cape Cod Striper Season Is Waking Up
May 1, 2026

Everyone’s waiting for the big striper migration. The texts, the forum posts, the “are they here yet?” questions are already flooding in. And the honest answer is: the main push of fresh migratory striped bass has not yet arrived on Cape Cod. But there are bass here right now. Perhaps you’ve seen the photos in the

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I Woke Up at 3:15am to Fly Fish for Cape Cod’s Early Season Stripers — Here’s What I Found
December 17, 2025

 From 40 inch holdover stripers, to freshwater adventures, to off season projects, the My Fishing Cape Cod members’ forum has been bustling with updates this holiday season. Read on for a complete summary of what’s been happening recently around the community. Table of Contents Winter StripersBoat Building ProjectsYear-Round AnglersIce Fishing Season BeginsTrout Fishing Takes Center StageFly

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From 40-Inch Stripers to Handmade Boats: MFCC’s Forum Roundup