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The smell hit me first.Standing on my boat the morning of June 26th, 2023 at Stellwagen Bank, I could actually smell the whales’ breath—that distinctive fishy, musty odor that tells you humpbacks are surfacing way too close for comfort. Thick fog had already forced me to abandon my plans to film giant bluefin tuna, and …
What do striped bass eat? That is a question I receive every so often. The honest answer is that striped bass eat many types of fish, crustaceans, worms and more. At times they will even eat one another! This is a continually updated blog post, because I’m continually filming striped bass eating different prey items! Most recently, …
As we move into the summer season, I can’t help but think about warm sunny days spent along the beaches of the Cape. Recently I’ve found myself daydreaming about the turquoise colors and clear water of the flats off Brewster. This lead me to an old post about a unique experience I had on this very …
There’s been some amazing striped bass caught on Cape Cod over the past few days! Most notably, My Fishing Cape Cod member Grant Stark posted a photo in our forum to the Surfcasters’ Thread of a beautiful 45-46 inch striper he caught from shore just the other day on May 8th. This fish is Grant’s …
There’s something sacred about a 3:30 AM wake-up call for a fisherman. The house sits in perfect stillness—a rare commodity when you have both a wife, a baby, a dog and a cat under the same roof. This morning was no different as I tiptoed around in the dark, careful not to make the rookie mistake of wearing my “swishy” Grundéns bibs indoors. (Those of you with sleeping spouses know exactly what I’m talking about—nothing kills a fishing trip faster than waking your significant other at an ungodly hour.)
...The 2025 Massachusetts black sea bass fishing season is scheduled to open on Saturday May 17th. After a long winter, many anglers can’t wait to go black sea bass fishing – including me! Not only are black sea bass some of the best tasting fish we have here on Cape, but they are also very fun …
This morning, as spring sunshine bathed Cape Cod in golden light, my wife Lauren and I introduced our 10-month-old daughter Hallie to one of our peninsula’s most sacred rituals: the herring run.Today marked Hallie’s first encounter with Cape Cod’s silver messengers of spring – river herring.While I stood mesmerized by the silver flashes surging upstream, …
Spring has arrived on Cape, and one early season fishery I am hoping materializes in 2025 is the nearshore haddock bite in Cape Cod Bay. Last year this bite never got going with any consistency, but in years past the fishing not far from shore in the bay has been great. We will just have to …
I am fortunate to call Cape Cod my home. I was born and raised in the small town of Orleans, where driving out on the “Outer Beach” (also known to many surfcasters as “The Great Beach”) was a Sunday tradition for my family. Although I never did much fishing from shore in my younger days, …
Kite 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 automobiles!If witnessing a massive topwater hit from a car …
Fishing in Provincetown, Massachusetts goes back centuries, well before the Pilgrims arrived on the Cape’s sandy shores. In fact, fishermen of a bygone era once landed mammoth 100 plus pound codfish, door-size halibut, haddock, and a variety of other valuable fish species right off the P-town coast. The fishing today may not be as incredible, but it’s …
There’s a certain magic to April on Cape Cod. While tourists haven’t yet descended in their summer masses and many seasonal homes remain shuttered, the Cape’s freshwater kettle ponds come alive with opportunity. As the calendar flipped to April 1st, that familiar angler’s itch—the one many of us know all too well—finally demanded to be …
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