The Striped Bass have been everywhere in Duxbury Bay for the last week or so. There is plenty of live bait right off of Gurnet at High Tide. At a lower tide just work towards the deeper water and you will find all the Mackerel and Herring you need. If your spot in the Bay is not working for Striped Bass, try looking for some birds working. For the last week I have seen loads of birds along the edge of the channel with keepers underneath them. Throw a mackerel under the birds and it is a guarantee fish. Matt Carnuccio with a 35in Striped Bass. This was one of eleven keepers we caught the other day on live Mackerel.

The Cod fishing right now is pretty bad. There were draggers all winter dragging the bottom of Stellwagon Bank, which cleaned them out for the most part. Still some keepers around, but it is very spotty.

The good news is the Southwest Corner the other day was loaded with whales and Dolphins. Schools of Mackerel and Herring were all the way from the SW Corner to the Eastern Edge.
On the way in I saw huge schools of Mackerel and Herring on Brewers ledge, which is a few miles off of Gurnet Point. By the end of this weekend you should have no problem getting mackerel close to shore.

As for Bass fishing, I have heard of one short Bass caught in the Bay. Once the bait moves in closer we should be able to see what’s in the Bay now. It won’t be long until we have some of those days where we are catching 20-30 keepers a day on Mackerel.

After catching a 600lb Bluefin Tuna last year on their first Tuna trip, it was going to be hard to beat that. We had the kite bait in the water for maybe 10 minutes before hooking into the giant last year which both of them fought on stand up gear. This year, after catching a few blue sharks, we had a Tuna take the balloon bait around noon time. It took about 30 minutes for Luke and Ryan Stevens to reel it in. The fish was a little under 300lbs. One for the truck.

Ryan Steves with a Tuna just under 300lbs

The High Hook shirts and sweatshirts featuring the new “High Hook” boat kite fishing for giant Bluefin Tuna can now be bought on the website by clicking here. The koozies and the new hats will be up soon.

Here are a couple pictures from the Jason Trulby Striped Bass trip the other week. We managed to catch around 10 fish with most of them being keepers. The fishing had slowed down a bit but it should pick up again with the commercial season ending.

Here is some quick footage of one of the keepers we caught last week. This one measured 81 inches and weighed around 300 pounds. The fish hit a pogie off of the kite during an afternoon bite on the southern edge of Peaked Hill sandbar. Enjoy the camera mount on the T-Top