September 16, 2012

Click here for the latest Cape Cod tuna fishing report Aside from inclement weather, catching, transporting and storing fresh live bait was the most challenging giant tuna hurdle for us last season.  I’m happy to say that so far this fall, the news on the live bait front is much more encouraging.

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Cape Cod’s Tuna Candy Hot Spot
September 16, 2012

 Click here for the latest Cape Cod tuna fishing report One of the most difficult road blocks we have thus far encountered in our pursuit of giant tuna is procuring a reliable source of high quality live bait.  In the tuna world, this means having a bait pen chock full of live bluefish.

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Procuring Giant Tuna Bait
September 16, 2012

Ryan CollinsKite fishing for giant tuna is the all jacked up, steroided out version of fishing a topwater plug for striped bass.  The two concepts are at their foundations very similar. The only difference is that kite fishing can generate surface strikes from tuna the size of small automobiles.If witnessing a massive topwater hit from

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Kite Fishing For Bluefin Tuna On Cape Cod
September 16, 2012

 Click here for the latest Cape Cod tuna fishing report Like I’ve said before, we are still new to the tuna game so take everything I say here with a grain of salt.  With that in mind, if you are just starting out and trying to catch your first giant tuna, then hopefully these posts

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Anchoring and Chumming
September 16, 2012

 Click here for the latest Cape Cod tuna fishing report The commercial whiting season opens in October on Cape Cod Bay.  This means that the whiting draggers will be working day in and day out in the deep waters off Provincetown, Plymouth and Stellwagen Bank.

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How to Find and Catch Whiting
September 16, 2012

Click here for the latest Cape Cod tuna fishing report Cape Cod sportfishing’s most sought after thrill is to battle with a giant tuna.  For many, the drive to catch a giant tuna borders on obsession.  The tuna’s beauty, the potential for big money, and the fish’s sheer size have driven many fishermen to spend

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Giant Tuna Fishing from a Small Boat
September 16, 2012

Up until 2011, pogies had eluded me for years.  How to catch pogies had remained a mystery the greater part of my time on Earth. Well I am happy to report that I am no longer puzzled by this mysterious bait fish!  At least for the moment…

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Gill Netting Pogies
October 11, 2011

A lot of effort goes into catching a tuna.  Especially when you are just starting out. Even though we have caught numerous tuna in the 50-170 pound range, and one tuna over 670 pounds, I’d say we are still in the “starting out” phase-especially compared to some of the top tuna veterans in the Cape

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The Hunt for Giant Tuna
September 22, 2011

This is going to be a short post, because I don’t want to sound repetitive.  Also, I’m starving and about to eat dinner! Anyways, we were able to squeeze in a giant tuna trip yesterday.   I went straight from a Cape Cod striped bass fishing adventure into a late night pogie catching and all day

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Giant Tuna, Sharks and Plenty of Pogies
June 23, 2011

  Click here for the latest Cape Cod tuna fishing report This giant tuna article was published during the spring of 2011. The jaunt from Plymouth to Stellwagen Bank’s legendary southwest corner had been rather uneventful. Fortunately the seas had been smooth and the sun was shining, yet as we pulled the Miss Loretta onto

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Giant Tuna are Back on Cape Cod