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The Fishing News
00000177-ba84-d5f4-a5ff-bbfc9abb0000 with Steve JunkerEach week during saltwater fishing season Steve Junker checks in with the folks at On the Water magazine and others to find out who's catching what where around the Cape and Islands—and how they're doing it. 00000177-ba84-d5f4-a5ff-bbfc9abc0000For a detailed weekly Fishing Forecast, check out On the Water.00000177-ba84-d5f4-a5ff-bbfc9abb0001

Looking Forward to Fall Fishing, and then... Ice Fishing?

Tom Gill / flickr

The final week in September brings the finish of the Fishing News on WCAI - but saltwater fishing continues in our region, as "the fall run" funnels southward-migrating striped bass along our coast through October. Big bluefish are in abundance as well.

Credit Karen Cardoza / flickr
Tautog may be caught in our waters through the end of November. A very curious fish, tautog have lips and teeth... How does that make you feel?

Tautog fishing will keep up until the end of November. And then?

Kevin Blinkoff, of On The Water magazine, has this advice: consider ice fishing, it's more fun than you might think (examine closely the photo above - that is a man communing inexpressibly with nature). Also through the winter, a variety of boat and fishing shows happen in our region, to help anglers keep thinking of spring even as the days are short, dark, and cold.

And of course, you might as well take apart that reel and clean it.

Steve Junker and Kevin Blinkoff discuss the season wrap of the Fishing News in the audio posted above.

Steve is Managing Editor of News. He came to WCAI in 2007. He also hosts the weekly News Roundup on Friday mornings and produces The Fishing News.