MFCC Intern

With an influx of excellent spring weather and quickly rising water temperatures, the month of May is off to an incredible start.

Members of the My Fishing Cape Cod community have had no shortage of fishing success in the past week, with saltwater action dominating the scene as conditions improve with each passing day. 

In this post, I'd like to highlight just a few of the notable catches I have seen over the past several days from inside our members forum.

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Striped Bass Fishing

In the past week especially, the striper bite has picked up noticeably on the coast of Massachusetts. Compared to the very beginning of the month, striper action is much less “hit-or-miss”, and a lot more “HIT”, with schoolie bass really starting to fill in the nooks and crannies, and some slightly larger fish in the mix as well. 

Given that it is still relatively early, members of the MFCC community had an extremely active week when it came to targeting stripers on the rivers, the Canal, and the oceanfront.

Anyone having trouble getting on some fresh fish might want to ask MFCC member Mike Marcus (@StriperMadness) for some pointers, because he has been rockin’ and rollin’ over the past week! 

Mike has been consistently catching schoolies on paddle tails and bucktail jigs. The bucktail got the job done on this 28-inch slot fish.

In addition, Eric Cronin (@ecronin24) has been encountering some solid schoolie action! Eric caught this traveling bass and several others at sunset this past week. 

Recently, dusk, and nighttime have been increasingly fruitful for targeting migratory striped bass.

If you can’t get out in the evening, sunrise is another high percentage time to target feeding bass.

MFCC member Adam Giordani (@adam_wtwoutdoor) hit the rocks on a nice morning several days ago, and ended up landing a slot fish and several smaller schoolies.

Not bad at all for the middle of May!

In other MFCC striper news, Teddy Nesius (@tnesius123) has been putting in work up and down the coastline, and landed 9 stripers the other day on the North Shore. 

Teddy's girlfriend also got in on the action!

As for the night bite, which appears to be improving, MFCC member Robbie Sturtevant (@robbiesturtevant) decided to test the waters this week.

Robbie ended up hooking into some very solid schoolies, highlighted by this near slot fish, which he landed on the outgoing tide just the other night.

As bigger fish arrive on our coastline, especially in June, I would expect the larger bass to be more readily “accessible” from shore during the nighttime. In any case, the evening is both a productive and relaxing time to hit the water right now.

Over the past week, the canal bite has been picking up as well. Tim Mugherini (@bugbear) hit the slack tide the other night and quickly picked up about ten 18-27 inch bass on small profile plastics.