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So far this December, in my annual search for the elusive holdover striped bass, my best success has been realized via kayak in the Sandwich & Barnstable area. In particular, trolling from the Hobie kayak has been hands down the most effective strategy for locating and catching holdover stripers. This is the technique I used to locate …
Ryan Collins Personally, I have always used the Slim Beauty knot to connect braid to monofilament or fluorocarbon leaders. Yet there are other options and alternatives to the Slim Beauty may work better for you. Today I’d like to share with you one such alternative, called the FG Knot. You can learn how to tie the FG Knot by …
Ryan Collins The bass were biting this weekend! Christmas may be right around the corner, but stripers can still be caught on Cape Cod, if you know where to look. I would imagine that 99% of the Cape’s striper population has migrated south. Yet for whatever reason, very small and scattered schools of bass remain …
Ryan Collins December has arrived, so I figured it fitting to publish a post about good wintertime reads. These books are perfect for the angler, or anyone who loves reading about Cape Cod, the beach, and the ocean. This post originally appeared in our forum during the winter of 2015. I owe a big thank you …
David StetsonMember since 2014 On May 30th 2016, I reunited with my younger, non-fisherman brother Doug, at the Cooke’s Seafood parking lot in Hyannis. This was Day One of my annual trip from Oregon to visit my ninety year old mother, my brother, and to surf fish – not necessarily in that order. Our destination …
Andrew BurkeMFCC Intern The moment I crossed the Sagamore bridge and looked down at the Cape Cod Canal, I simply couldn’t resist the urge to wet a line. When I finally arrived at home for Thanksgiving break, I wasn’t in the house for more than 10 minutes before I was out the door again with my …
Ryan Turcotte Yesterday, for the first time, I fished Rhode Island, hoping to catch a few migrating stripers. I put in a lot of effort bouncing around from place to place. Most places had signs of life and plenty of bait but the fish seemed to be staying far offshore where I could only watch the feeds …
Kevin Conway Hello MFCC! This is fellow member Kevin Conway. I’ve been a member here since June of 2015. I’m also the mate on the Lucky lady II Out of Barnstable Harbor. Between charter and commercial fishing, I probably work and fish 60-80 hours a week during the summer. What I would now like to do, is start …
Ryan Collins This fishing trip began yesterday afternoon around 2:30pm. After a fairly long drive I popped out of my car, eager to check the inlet and nearby beach. There were birds and a seal diving and feeding in the crests of waves. I saw a small splash, which I thought may have been a striper. …
Yesterday I was shocked to be catching monster bluefish during November! Big blues are still around if you know where to look, and are willing to travel. Yesterday actually began with micro-schoolies jumping and chasing bait in the early morning sunlight.
After catching a few micros I noticed a large flock of birds working hard over what appeared to be some very large bluefish. I quickly reeled in my line and began to carefully hustle down the jetty rocks.
This week I encountered thousands of schoolies while fly fishing from my kayak off Cape Cod.
We are certainly blessed to be seeing all these small stripers so late in the season! Perhaps they will stick around for a few more days – dare I say weeks!
The following kayak/fly fishing trip occurred earlier this week on the morning of Wednesday November 2nd. These fish were still here as of today.
...As the weather gets colder there will be more black midge hatches on the kettle ponds in Southeastern MA.
The stocked trout from last year will key-in on this food supply, and the new stockies will soon begin to figure it out…eventually.
The best flies for imitating these hatches are a midge pupa, size 14 and 16 on a long leader tapered to a tippet of 5x or 6x.
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