Soft Bait Sand Eels

Video: Spring Topwater Stripers on Middle Ground   We filmed this a couple of years ago during the squid run…

Watch Capt. Mike Hogan use a light tackle lead core outfit to jig’n troll striped bass off Tom’s Shoal near wasque. Capt. Mike was fishing the (1) humps in slight deeper water and dropping back to target the Captain Saw on the fish finder.

Jigging skirted jigs for stripers in the Holes of the Elizabeths is surefire way to catch big stripers.

Capt. Mike Hogan and Sean Ruge of Riptide Charters headed off Provincetown, MA in mid-June to vertical jig and topwater cast for large striped bass to 40″ in length.

Capt. Shaun Ruge answers gives his advice for places and colors to fish the Hogy Sand Eel throughout the season for stripers, bonito and albies.

MV local Joe Rogers describes his most effective techniques for catching hungry striped bass at the south side inlets of Martha’s Vineyard.

When striped bass make their initial push up through Martha’s Vineyard and Buzzards Bay in early May, one of the most surefire ways to find them from shore is to target the boulder fields that dot the area.

I met with Capt. Terry Nugent on Wednesday morning for my first trip on Riptide this year, and had a phenomenal day catching fish to 45″ on topwater in front of Barnstable Harbor and on the jig near Provincetown.