This year I would like to try out a new idea called “Offseason Fishing Challenges” to help keep things interesting during the offseason.
Essentially this a way for My Fishing Cape Cod members to get paid to go fishing!
For now the challenges are relatively simple, but if this takes off, then I expect that these challenges will get a lot more interesting.
Here’s a list of the current challenges, which are up for grabs as of today:
- Catch a holdover striped bass
- Catch holdover striped bass of at least 30 inches in Massachusetts or Rhode Island
- Catch a mackerel, cod, haddock, tautog, pollock, squid or winter flounder
- Catch a largemouth bass, pickerel, rainbow trout, brown trout, tiger trout or brook trout
- Catch a white perch from a saltwater environment on Cape Cod or on the Islands
- Catch a smelt anywhere in New England
- Catch a pike on Cape Cod
After successfully completing a challenge, submit report about the trip (500 word minimum) by clicking here and filling out the form, or by making a post inside our members' forum and tagging @admin.
Include some helpful tips and a general idea of the location, plus photos of the lures/baits, your rod and reel, the scenery and anything else that’s beautiful or interesting.
Once someone completes a challenge, it will be removed from the list above.
Whoever completes a challenge first will be paid $50. If you end up completing multiple challenges during the same trip, then each additional challenge will net you another $20.
So for example, if the challenge is to catch a rainbow trout, but you also end up catching a brown and a brook trout, then you’ll be paid $90.
In fact, the largemouth bass, rainbow trout and pickerel challenges were completed in less than 8 hours after I made this posting! 
*This report is part of our recently launched Offseason Challenges program. You can learn more about how the challenges work by clicking
*This report is part of our recently launched Offseason Challenges program. You can learn more about how the challenges work by clicking
Good luck and if you have any questions about the challenges, then just LMK by posting below.
Tight lines! 
This is a great idea! I’ll definitely put some effort into it during my winter break
Awesome Josh! Piotr and Calvin have already completed three of the challenges less than 8 hours after I posted this. We are off to a good start! Looking forward to seeing how you do during winter break.