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Recently the team at Keep Fish Wet, an organization focused on helping recreational anglers improve the outcome for each fish they release, sent out their latest recommendations on catch & release best practices for striped bass. In an effort to help get this information out to as many people as possible, I decided today to share …
Summertime has arrived on Cape, and night fishing for stripers from the beach will be more effective than fishing during the day. Beach fishing at night for stripers is not for everyone, but I enjoy it a lot. Being in nature underneath the stars is what I enjoy most. The chance of hooking into a …
So far this season I’ve found myself fishing a lot using live pogies for bait. Whether caught via a snag hook or cast net, live pogies have been the ticket to catching bass of up to around 45 inches. Last week on Thursday June 10th the wind was blowing 25mph and the sun glare was challenging, …
Today’s podcast is now live! In this report you’ll hear our latest Cape Cod fishing report recored with Ian Bragdon of the Goose Hummock Shops. Please click play below to listen
...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 …
MFCC InternDespite the recent stretch of less-than-stellar weather, local ocean water temperatures have pushed into the mid 50’s, and striped bass fishing along the Massachusetts coastline is yielding consistent success, with larger fish being caught more frequently by the day. Most notably, migratory fish in the 30 inch range and beyond are becoming increasingly common. In …
The wind was howling and the rain was coming down in sheets this past Saturday afternoon. Nevertheless I could not resist an overwhelming urge to head down Cape and do some surfcasting. I pulled my truck into the parking lot and was greeted by a chilly 30 mph wind out of the northeast. It was 1:15pm …
MFCC InternWith local ponds and lakes in full bloom, and fresh migratory stripers slowly but surely beginning to fill in along the coastline, it sure is starting to feel like we are turning the corner here in Massachusetts! Though local freshwater bass and trout fishing remains excellent, members of the MFCC community are increasingly turning their …
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 the 2017 season, did not …
*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 when fishing for striped …
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 newcomers to even the most experienced …
Ryan CollinsBack 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 tide, which created a pretty cool sight-fishing …
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