December 21, 2024

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

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Winter Striper Fishing and Holdover Striped Bass Secrets
October 5, 2023

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,

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How To Use Side-Scan Sonar
June 3, 2021

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

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Early June Striper Fishing on Cape Cod
March 17, 2020

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.

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Angler Education: Pristine Striped Bass Habitats
March 16, 2015

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

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Targeting Early-Season Stripers On Cape Cod
July 23, 2014

Having sonar (AKA “fish-finder”) on your boat is no guarantee that you’ll actually find fish! Like anything else, sonar is a tool and the more expertise you have with sonar, the better you’ll be at using it to find and catch fish. In this post I will use sonar snapshots from this season and the

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Understanding Your Sonar 101
June 20, 2014

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

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3 Simple Ways To Tell Which Tide Fishes Best
September 7, 2013

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

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Fishing the Cape without Electronics | how to find & catch fish
May 23, 2013

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

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3 Ways to Catch a Striper this Memorial Day Weekend
April 12, 2013

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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How to Hook Stripers by Zoning in on River Herring
December 31, 2012

First off Happy New Year!  I hope you have a great time tonight ringing in 2013.  Stay safe and have fun. With 2013 now upon us, it is time to start thinking about the upcoming Cape Cod fishing season.  2012 was a phenomenal year on Cape Cod for striped bass fishing, so I think we

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Fish Where the Fish are in 2013
September 16, 2012

Striped bass fishing can be a downright overwhelming task. Then again there are those days when the bass just seem to find the fishermen. One particular trip during the middle of August 2010 could certainly be classified as one of those rare occasions when big striped bass are easy to come by. The wind was howling

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Understanding Striped Bass Behavior