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I could hear the birds before I even reached the water — that sharp, indignant cry cutting through the chilly northwest wind. By the time I got to the shoreline just after 9am, I could see them dipping and wheeling with that nervous energy that always means something is happening down there.On a gray, damp May …
The 2026 Cape Cod fishing season is officially underway, and if this first report from Sam Mullen of the Goose Hummock Shop in Orleans is any indication, it’s shaping up to be a season worth getting excited about. From freshwater trout in the kettle ponds to migratory striped bass pushing through the Cape Cod Canal and Cape Cod Bay, there’s plenty of action to be had.
...My first striped bass of the 2026 season — and she did not disappoint!In this video that was filmed on April 12th, I make the trek out to a hard-to-reach backwater spot on Cape Cod to chase holdover stripers before the main migration arrives. These are fish that have been quietly sitting in the warmest, …
This report was originally published in the Buzzards Bay category inside our members’ forum on May 5th, 2026. With the 2026 striper season opening its doors and reports of fresh migratory fish beginning to filter up the coast, there was only one place to be on this cold early-May evening — on the water.LOCATION: Buzzards Bay DATE: …
It smelled like low tide and rotting green crab, the wind was howling at 30 knots out of the southwest, and my line was fouled with seaweed on nearly every cast.I was having a blast.30-knot winds out of the southwest made for challenging conditions on Buzzards Bay, May 4th.I arrived at the jetty at 1:45pm …
I pulled into the harbor at 9:30am and had the place almost entirely to myself. A few charter boats lingered at the docks waiting for their customers. A commercial mackerel boat eased in from the bay. Light drizzle tapped the water and an onshore wind pushed small ripples across the harbor. It was quiet — wonderfully, almost eerily quiet — in that way Cape Cod only is for a few more weeks before Memorial Day Weekend arrives and flips the switch.
...I pulled on my waders, grabbed the spinning rod and the fly rod, and made my way to the mouth of an estuary on the Lower Cape — the same system I’ve been fishing this spring, but this time closer to where it dumps into the bay, not back upstream where I was on April 13th and again on April 27th.
...For some anglers, fishing is a solitary pursuit born of necessity rather than choice. Danielle Rea knows this reality well. Growing up in a Connecticut beach community with an avid fisherman father, she developed a lifelong passion for the sport, but as an adult, she often found herself fishing alone. That changed when she discovered the …
Everyone’s waiting for the big striper migration. The texts, the forum posts, the “are they here yet?” questions are already flooding in. And the honest answer is: the main push of fresh migratory striped bass has not yet arrived on Cape Cod. But there are bass here right now. Perhaps you’ve seen the photos in the …
Cape Cod isn’t just stripers and bluefish. In this video, I fish three different freshwater ponds across the Cape in roughly 24 hours — chasing stocked rainbows and Eastern Brook Trout in some of the most peaceful, overlooked corners of this peninsula.
...The Insider Series brings you never-before-published seminar recordings from some of Cape Cod’s most respected charter captains and local anglers. These exclusive presentations were recorded at live My Fishing Cape Cod events but have remained in the vault—until now. Released monthly from November through May, these sessions provide essential winter education while you’re dreaming of the …
Registration for spring group fishing trips opened this Thursday, April 30th at 7pm, and we have still have a few open spots on some incredible trips lined up with four of Cape Cod’s best charter captains.Here’s what dropped at launch:Winter Flounder — Captain Mike Fowler, Bad Dog Sportfishing📅 May 3 & May 25 | $275/personCaptain …
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