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Buzzard's BayHow-To: Walk the Dog Stripers with Capt. Jamie Simmons

How-To: Walk the Dog Stripers with Capt. Jamie Simmons

The Salty Cape Crew head out in early June with Capt. Jamie Simmons of Buzzard's Bay Outfitters to chase topwater stripers in the upper Buzzard's Bay region with the Hogy XL Charter Grade Dog Walke...

CastingHow-To: Striped Bass Fishing in Canals and Channels from Shore #161

How-To: Striped Bass Fishing in Canals and Channels from Shore #161

APPROACH Canals are great when you know fish are likely to be in the area. With such high volumes of water running by y...

Cape CodHow-To: Fishing Estuaries for Striped Bass from Shore #160

How-To: Fishing Estuaries for Striped Bass from Shore #160

Estuaries are great for a lot of reasons.  Approach: First step is to identify the direction of the tide. You want to fish on the side the tide is moving toward. Although this is a light tackle fi...

Cape CodHow-To: Reading Shore Conditions for Striped Bass #156

How-To: Reading Shore Conditions for Striped Bass #156

Anglers are much more tightly lipped about their shore fishing than boat fishing and consequently, getting good shore fishing reports is difficult. I don’t even bother asking around when shore fish...

CastingHow-To: Plug Retrieves for Striped Bass #143

How-To: Plug Retrieves for Striped Bass #143

The Hogy Charter Grade Popper A popper is an excellent “search bait” in that it makes a loud “popping” noise, getting a fish’s attention through sight and sound; our Hogy Popper also features inte...

Cape CodThe Best Striper Lures for Shore Fishing #111-S

The Best Striper Lures for Shore Fishing #111-S

At Hogy, we literally make thousands of different shaped and sized lures for fisheries all over the world. Although the vast majority of our lures work for striped bass, we have compiled the list b...