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Live Bait Fishing For Striped Bass

Monday, January 14, 2013

Live Bait Fishing for Monster Striped Bass

Do you have stripers on the mind despite it being the middle of winter? If you do then you are not alone. The good news is that spring will be here before we know it, and with spring comes fresh migratory striped bass. When the fish arrive, live bait w

Here we are in the dead of winter, with roughly 3.5 months left to go before the first migratory striped bass filter into Cape Cod's waters.  Yet if you are a fishing nut like me, it is tough to not have stripers on the brain - despite it being January. The striper fishing this past season off Barnstable was nothing short of spectacular.  Actually, the striper fishing in most Cape Cod locales was much better than normal during 2012.  In particular, Cape Cod Canal fishing had one incredible near season-long bite, with big fish being taken right through the month of November. Will 2013 provide the same sort of action? Your guess is as good as mine, and only time will tell.  Yet there are whales feeding right now in Cape Cod Bay, surprisingly…

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