Stripers & Blues

There's no place like the Cape Cod Canal where extreme tides and current call for specific lures.

UPDATED 7/17/23 On July 9, angler Jake Walsh was kayak fishing around Boothbay Harbor in Liniken Bay, Maine when he came across an unfortunate sight: a net—stretching from the shoreline to approximately 500 yards out

On The Water’s Adventures travels to the southern coast of Maine for an action-packed summer day of striped bass fishing.

Rise well before the summer sun to catch stripers in the cool, quiet and still crowd-less backwaters.

Anglers can find great fishing for their favorite inshore species at the bridges all summer long.

Eliminate slack and keep your lure still in the strike zone to consistently catch stripers just off the beach.

In this week’s striper migration report, Assistant Editor Matt Haeffner dives into the influx of sand eels from Long Island to Cape Cod Bay, herring-fueled cow bass in Boston and hickory shad showing up on

Topwater bluefish bites are some of the most explosive and exhilarating strikes any surfcaster will experience north of the Chesapeake Bay.

In this week’s migration report, OTW’s Assistant Editor Matt Haeffner covers the shifting bass behavior prior to the June full moon, stripers on squid in the rips off of Cape Cod, and herring schools in

Adjust your striper-fishing strategies to target big fish instead of schoolies.