January 25, 2021

A couple of years ago I was going through our member forum, and I noticed a thread about the many poor catch and release practices witnessed during that year at the Cape Cod Canal. If you were not already aware, a lot of the people who fished the canal, especially during ...

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How to Properly Release a Striped Bass [VIDEO]
January 23, 2021

*This post from 8-year MFCC member Dex Chadsey was originally published in December of 2016. We figured now would be a good time to re-publish this post, because all the information is still very relevant to striper fishing in 2021. I'd been hearing about how successful Daiwa SP Minnows could be ...

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How To Keep Your SP Minnow From Damaging Small Fish
January 20, 2021

As the middle of winter settles onto Cape Cod and New England, I find that myself and many other anglers are already looking forward to new fishing possibilities in 2021! Although the past year has been long and tumultuous at times, many of us in the angling community (from welcomed ...

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Striped Bass Fishing on the South Shore of Massachusetts | 2020 Season-in-Review
January 8, 2021

Ryan Collins Back in early June of the 2019 Cape Cod fishing season, I headed out to a beach in this general area of the Cape, during the middle of the afternoon to catch the high tide.  Striped bass had been coming extremely close to shore before and after high ...

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Sight Fishing for Striped Bass on Cape Cod with the Hyperlastics Dart Spin Pro
December 14, 2020

Back in September of 2018, my mom Kathy and I headed out onto Cape Cod Bay for a morning of tube and worm trolling.During this trip I used my sonar to locate the schools, and then I trolled one tube and worm fished on lead core directly through the center ...

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Tube & Worm Trolling for Big Stripers with My Mom
December 3, 2020

Wind knots are a common issue that frustrate all levels of anglers. A wind knot refers to a tangle in the fishing line that prevents someone from casting and retrieving effectively. Wind knots generally occur anytime you have line twist where the line going through the rod's tip is slower ...

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Wind Knots – Causes & Solutions
November 15, 2020

In today's video clip, I'd like to share new underwater footage of stripers (and a couple mackerel) chasing and attacking a 5in white fly. I filmed half of this footage during August in Cape Cod Bay, and the rest of the footage during October in Buzzard's Bay. At the time, these stripers ...

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What It’s Like To See Striped Bass Chasing & Attacking Flies Underwater
November 7, 2020

If you are a surfcaster, and would like to meet other surfcasters from My Fishing Cape Cod, then this would be a great event to attend!MFCC Meetup is a speed networking format that enables everyone to connect with each other through multiple rounds of five-minute, one-on-one conversations. You can catch ...

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Surfcasters’ Meetup | Friday November 13th
September 11, 2020

This episode of the podcast was originally published in September of 2020, but the information shared about surfcasting The Fall Run is still relevant today.This episode will be a great listen for anyone hoping to catch fish from the beach this fall on Cape Cod. We'll cover all sorts of ...

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Surfcasting Cape Cod’s Fall Run | with Calvin Toran-Sandlin
September 10, 2020

Usually starting sometime in early or mid-August, peanut bunker arrive along the Cape Cod and Massachusetts coastlines. The peanut bunker schools will remain plentiful in the region throughout September, and often well into October and November. Last week I shared this report about shallow-water peanut bunker blitzes. In today's report, ...

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Cape Cod’s Deep-Water Peanut Bunker Blitzes
September 2, 2020

There is nothing more exciting than a shoreline blitz! In this post you'll see brand new images and video of stripers on the hunt in shallow water. I filmed the following clips on August 29th and August 30th. On these days peanut bunker were being trapped in shallow by stripers. ...

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Cape Cod’s Shallow-Water Peanut Bunker Blitzes
August 19, 2020

A lot of my striper fishing is done using artificial lures. However, over the past few years I have enjoyed fishing for bass with chunk bait. I've found that stripers will often show interest in chunk baits, even during the middle of a hot summer day, when nothing else is ...

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Why You Should Match Your Bait To The Size Of The Stripers