October 1, 2019

Ryan CollinsRecently I have been having a ton of fun observing wildlife from above using my drone. For example, last Friday morning I filmed this school of blitzing stripers. A few days earlier on September 24th I captured another surprise under a bright bluebird sky and perfectly sunny conditions. At first I wasn’t sure what I was

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Cape Cod Grey Seal Caught On Drone
September 27, 2019

Ryan CollinsAt 8am this morning in this general area of Cape Cod, I was fortunate to encounter and film via drone a big striper blitz along the coastline. I managed to catch a bundle of bass, but the real treat was observing the striper blitz from above!To watch a preview of the action, please click play

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September 27th Striper Blitz Caught On Drone
September 21, 2019

Ryan CollinsSeptember is a fantastic month for spotting ocean sunfish (mola molas) here on Cape Cod. Mola molas are one of the heaviest known bony fishes in the world, weighing as much as 2,000 pounds!Back on Sunday September 15th I launched my kayak in Cape Cod Bay and paddled about 1/2 mile offshore to where several

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Close Encounter With An Ocean Sunfish
September 17, 2019

Garet SuomalaHey guys, Garet Suomala here again with another “fishy story.” This fishing trip started at around 3pm last week when Ryan picked me up from my condo for an afternoon of fishing.After Ryan picked me up we stopped at Rendezvous Cafe which is a nice cafe right on Main St., Hyannis.  

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Fishing For “Blue Runners” Here On Cape Cod
September 12, 2019

Ryan CollinsDid you know that the largest stingray in the Atlantic Ocean (the roughtail stingray) can grow to be 800lbs, and hunts along the beaches of Cape Cod during the night? Roughtail stingrays will often bury themselves in bottom sediment. They are opportunistic predators that feed on a variety of bony fish and invertebrates. During the night

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Giant Cape Cod Stingray (caught on video!)
August 12, 2019

Ryan CollinsYesterday afternoon while on a trip with capt. Cullen of White Shark Tours Cape Cod, we encountered a huge great white that was cruising over a shallow sandbar off Cape Cod, MA. Great white sharks are here in abundance and yesterday we spotted a half dozen great whites in under 2 hours time.Successfully filming the

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Huge Great White Shark Off Cape Cod, MA
July 19, 2019

Ryan CollinsThe month of July has been busy and fun! I have been attending weddings, cookouts, and a baby’s first-ever birthday party. ? I also needed to change the wires and plugs on my Evinrude Etech 150hp engine. The engine has nearly 5,000 hours, but it still works well!On Tuesday my friend Rich fixed my engine,

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Top 3 “Wildlife Moments” from My Week of Fishing on Cape Cod
July 13, 2019

Ryan CollinsThe sun was shining this past Wednesday when I donned my wet suit and entered the ocean for my first snorkeling session of the summer. I still love snorkeling our local Cape Cod waters, despite the high numbers of full grown adult great white sharks in the area.When snorkeling you never know what you may

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Amazing Underwater Footage Of Striped Bass In Their Natural Habitat
October 4, 2018

Ryan CollinsDuring the summer of 2018 I stumbled across (and later untangled) a massive leatherback turtle that was entangled in a lobster pot line inside Cape Cod Bay. It was early September and I was motoring along in my boat, when I noticed a lobster buoy that was getting pulled under. My initial thought was “Wow

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Rescuing A 500+ Pound Entangled Leatherback Turtle Off Cape Cod, MA
March 19, 2018

Ryan Collins In this seminar presentation I will take you through a full season of fishing on Cape Cod.  You will learn how and where to target big stripers, tuna, albies and other species from Cape Cod’s many inlets, bays, jetties, harbors, beaches, estuaries and of course the canal. This seminar includes more than 80

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How To Make The Most Of Your 2018 Cape Cod Fishing Season
March 4, 2018

Ryan Collins Over the past 48 hours the Cape region has been blasted by winds in excess of 60 mph. The ocean has been very angry. The landscape of many Cape beaches has certainly been changed by this storm, and I can’t help but wonder if these waves and tides will carve out some new striper

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Winter Storm Riley | Update From A Cliff
October 10, 2017

Ryan Collins This October there has been a plethora of Ocean Sunfish (also called Mola molas) inside the Cape Cod Canal and Cape Cod Bay.Today while filming an episode of My Fishing Cape Cod TV, myself, camera crew, Tony Nevarro and Jeff Miller of Canal Bait & Tackle encountered several of these odd fish. Mola

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Ocean Sunfish (Mola molas) In The Cape Cod Canal