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main page.| Chatham | I charter around Pleasant Bay and along Monomoy and I've found the fishing inside the Bay to be much slower lately. Good fish can still be taken occasionally with the tube and worm in channels and eels too but not consistenly. There are good fish in the Bay but they are hard to flyfish in the wind and broken grass floating everywhere. Of note would be all the flats boats out at the end of Monomoy this thursday morning, suggesting the difficulty hooking up on the flats lately. If you must flats fish, go fine and small. Fishing out at Pollock has been good with a lot of 36" to 40" fish being taken on sand eels, squid, pink swimmers and trolled flies. |
| Martha's Vineyard | Coop at Coop's Bait & Tackle on the Vineyard says they've caught a few bonito finally but the fishing is very light and will definitely imporve in the next few weeks. Wasque had a bluefish blitz just last night with fish up to 10 pounds. There are borwn sharks mixed in with keeper stripers on the east beach, try bunker and eels for these. The north shore has slopwed for stripers but the boaters off here are still doing okay.Fluking is still good and coop hears of some small bluefin tuna around the fingers and the dump but nothing of size. |
| Nantucket | Barry Thurman on Nantucket reports the striper fishing is only so-so, best appears to be chunk bait like mackerel and the bluefish are sparser too with no big schools working around the island. Fluke are still good along Great Point rip, try squid strips, sand eels and bellies for these. The few bluefish caught consistently have been from Great Point too and along Surfside. some offshore fishers have gone to the canyon for bluefin but most are still rigging and waiting. The first bonito have been caught but not consistently anywhere. |
| Provincetown | Emilio, owner of Nelson's Bait & Tackle in Provincetown, tells me the beach fishing has been excellent. The commercial fishers with live eels have been doing very well at night on big stripers over 34 inches. Boaters have been doing well drifting eels too both day and night. fluking continues good off the beach at Long Point and off boats using the smaller baits. Its been too windy for good flyfishing and the bluefish are thin near shore. but good bluefishing can be found out among the pots using bait. |
| Nantucket Sound | Andy at the Powderhorn Outfitters reports brown sharks along Cotuit and Pompanessitt. try the evening flood tide with cut bait for these critters up to 50 pounds. sopme bluefish have been along Craigville beach and Lobsterville and Horseshoe shoals continues to hold blues. bottom fishing has been poor but there have been fluke off Bass river and a few squeteague (sea trout) too along Douse's and West Dennis beach. For bait, there are pogies around the harbors in the morning. |
| Falmouth | Alex at Eastman's in Falmouth reports the first bonito too. there are schoolie stripers and bluefish along the shore but the catch has been much better from a boat using eels and jigs. Fluke appear to be slowing down now, tough to tell if we've caught so many or they are moving on. |
| Elizabeth Islands | Capt. John Christian says that the striped bass fishing is holding up in the Elizabeth's but very few fish still among the rocks. Use the tube and worm on wire in 10' of water or be patient casting the eels around every rock in search of good fish. |
| Nauset Inlet | Tom at The Bait Shack in Orleans, tells me about a recent fish blitz of mixed stripers and blues in town cove the other day. Good things to come, maybe. there is a ton of mung along the coast and so fishing has been hampered. Many folk have reported a roving school of big striper from the Inlet to Wellfleet, and this jibes with the overall search for bait by the big predators lately. Fluking has improved if anything, try sand eels and bellies for best success. |
| Harwichport | Larry Nickerson at Kildee Hill Bait and Tackle tells of very quiet shore fishing.The fluking has slowed and a few stripers are still being taken on squid and eels out at the end of Monomoy but elsewhere is really slowed down. With the wind up the boating is tough and we are waiting for another quieter weather cycle. |
| Nantucket | Dave Beaumont on Nantucket tells me that the striped bass fishing is holding up well with good fish in the 40" to 48" size being taken alondg the north shore by boat on black eels and trolling jigs. Bass are also being taken on the flats and fluke too on flies. Best fishing for fluke appears to be along Great Point using bucktails and squid strips. Dave adds that a 225 pound mako was taken this past week offshore! Bonito are in but sparse along the west end of the island and on the harbor jetties. bluefishing has remained about the same with the best fishing being from Great Point out to Sankaty and Miacomet rip. |
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