From Provincetown down to Chatham, the Outer Cape and its great backside beach is a famous place to fish for striped bass. An abundance of seals had made it more difficult to fish from shore recently, but the striped bass fishing via boat off of Nauset has been a popular spot over the last few years.
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Capt. Mike shares a few tips for when you’re marking large plumes of sand eels and striped bass, but can’t get them to notice your jigs.
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Race Point is one of Cape Cod’s most productive fishing spots. Learn how and when to fish the Race through videos, charts and tackle suggestions.
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Large plumes of sand eels have flooded the outer Cape over the past few weeks, creating conditions for excellent striper fishing. In this video, Capt. Mike shares a few tips for when you’re marking bait and bass, but can’t get them to notice your jigs.
Filmed May 14th, 2017
Braving frigid conditions on an early November morning, Salty Cape's Capt. Mike Hogan and Capt. Cullen Lundholme of Cape Star Charters headed north from Sandwich Marina to the waters just off of Provincetown. Equipped with Shimano Stella 14000W reels and Hogy Pro Tails, Capt. Cullen and Capt. Mike successfully pitched topwater baits into schools of crashing bluefin, hooking up with a BFT well into the 100-pound range.
Filmed May 27th, 2016
Capt. Terry Nugent and Capt. Mike Hogan of Salty Cape target big striped bass on a hot sand eel bite off the coast of Provincetown. Learn how to dial in your Raymarine radar to find flocks of birds and navigate your way through the fog, leading to awesome striped bass fishing action.
Filmed July 7th, 2016
Join captains Mike Hogan and Shaun Ruge with Riptide Charters to learn some tips on jigging and casting for finicky striped bass feeding on sand eels off Provincetown, MA. The sand eels were so abundant the stripers were very picky and would only eat highly imitative presentations. Keys to their success were very light leaders, imitative sand eel soft baits and pinpoint targeting of the fish. The fish were down deep at slack tide where jigging was the name of the game but when the tide started moving the surface bite turned on.
Filmed June 17th, 2015