Fishing reports, videos and more.
Memorial Day weekend marks the start of the summer fishing season on Cape Cod, and this year’s early reports are painting an exciting picture for anglers ready to get back on the water. With the black sea bass season now officially open and striped bass activity heating up in both Cape Cod Bay and Nantucket Sound, there are plentiful opportunities for both bottom fishing enthusiasts and surfcasters.
...The nor’easter currently sweeping through Cape Cod is providing challenging fishing conditions, but exceptional opportunities. Ian McPartland from Goose Hummock shop in Orleans recently had a 40 fish night from the beach inside Cape Cod Bay with fish upwards of 35 pounds.
...Sonar has helped me tremendously, and it’s definitely made finding and catching fish much easier. However, a part of me wishes that sonar did not exist. I feel that the “old school” fishing knowledge that was centered around wind, tides, weather, and a certain kind of “instinct” is no longer as important as it once was, …
After a long, cold winter, the fishing season on Cape Cod is finally heating up. The first week of May marks the traditional start to what promises to be an exciting 2025 season across the Cape and Islands. Water temperatures are slowly rising, baitfish are returning in force, and both saltwater and freshwater opportunities abound for anglers of all experience levels.
...Today is the first official start of winter in the northern hemisphere, and while most people in our neck of the woods are content with staying inside where it’s warm, I know at least a few anglers are chomping at the bit to do some winter striper fishing. In this post I am going to share …
One year ago on June 4th 2020, I had a unique opportunity to film and photograph a school of hundreds of striped bass as they hunted sand eels along the bottom and on the surface. In this video, we primarily utilized epoxy jigs which closely imitated the profile of the sand eels which the bass …
There are places in the Cape & Islands where wildlife thrives. In this drone video you’ll soar above one of the Cape & Islands pristine striper habitats.
...The temperature was cold and snow was falling, on a late winter day nearly 10 years ago. My cousin Kevin and I were trudging through a muddy estuary on Cape Cod, in search of holdover stripers.Catching holdover stripers on Cape Cod had, up until this point, been a cold and difficult endeavor for me. I …
This past week I was fortunate to connect with a couple nice schools of striped bass while fishing from shore. You can learn more about those experiences by checking out these two Cape Cod fishing reports from this week: Cape Cod Fishing Report June 17 | A Perfect Night On The Beach (Part 1) A …
I often catch myself imagining what fishing on Cape Cod was like “way back when.” I like to picture Cape Cod without the bridges and marinas, when it was still a wild place. Can you imagine what the fishing must have been like 1,000 years ago? It may be difficult for us “modern day” anglers …
With each passing day, fresh schools of striped bass are arriving and feeding on Cape Cod, like voracious tourists piling into an Old Country Buffet. Reliable reports of larger surf and boat bass weighing more than 20 pounds, have begun spreading like wildfire throughout the region. If you plan on fishing Cape Cod this Memorial …
This past week’s “warm” weather should help spark Cape Cod’s saltwater fishing scene. One fish in particular, the river herring, will soon be found in good numbers within Cape Cod’s many estuaries, rivers and ponds.
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