On Saturday Morning we went out for a half day Striped Bass trip and had some pretty good success..We fished mainly in Durxbury and Kingston bays. All together we caught around 6 fish and four of them were around 37-38 inchers. Below are some pictures of the fish we caught.

Russ Pelham and his daughter landed some nice Striped Bass on our trip this week. The mackerel fishing was real slow. The only real way to get them was to spot them on the surface and drive right over them and get the lines full. We did that for about 30 minutes until we had the live well full. The Striped Bass bite was a little slow but we still managed around 10 keepers or so. I don’t plan on the Mackerel being here much longer as we might have to start chunk fishing or using live pogies.

On Thursday we landed a nice 300 pound Bluefin which we caught on a live Mackerel. We hooked the fish in the afternoon between the Southwest corner and Peaked Hill sand bar in about 180 feet of water. The fish are slowly making there way up to the corner

The Tuna have not really shown up at Stellwagen Bank yet this year. I have marked a few fish and seen a couple crash but that’s about it. Right now we are fishing down around Nauset and further to the South. After having a few fish miss the hook the day before we finally managed to hook one on Friday afternoon. The fish was 77 inches and weighed around 250lbs. I have been seeing some fish moving North around the Highlands area on the back side of the cape. It should be soon when those fish make it to the Bank. There is a ton of life out there with whales and seals everywhere feeding on the sand eels. Also, about ten minutes after we bled and gutted the tuna we had around an 18 foot Great White come up to the boat and do a circle around us. A little sketchy..

We had a great day of fishing on Saturday during a Striped Bass trip where we caught around 25 keepers. The Mackerel were real easy to get right off of Gurnet Point. After about 20 minutes of fishing we filled up the livewell. Most the Striped Bass were in the low 30′s but towards the end of the trip we found some bigger fish. We were mainly using live Mackerel but had no problem fishing the dead ones as well. The last two fish we caught were around 30 pounds and a nice 35 pounder.

The mackerel have finally shown up in pretty good numbers off of Gurnet point. Most of the mackerel are about 7-8 inches which the Stripers cant resist. We have been having really good success live lining in Duxbury Bay and the Kingston channel. Pretty much every mackerel that goes in the water gets eaten. Most of the fish are around the 30 inch mark, but we have been seeing some better size ones in the upper 30′s as well.
It is best to use the smaller mackerel or sabiki rigs right now with the size fish that are out there. They don’t seem to be hitting the big rigs as much. With the smaller size you should be able to fill up your live-well in about 10 minutes.

Some footage of a Giant Blue Shark we caught on a charter last summer in Mass Bay. Owen and George reeled it in after it took down a live pogie off of a kite.

I have been fishing with Jb this week in the bay and the bite has been really good. We have landed two fish over 450lbs and one over 250lbs and a small guy mixed in. There are some bigger ones out there though. The best way to catch these fish is with whiting down deep in a chum slick, although some people have been getting them on the drift with no chum. This week has been the best “big fish” bite of the year for sure with fish up to 950lbs being caught next to us.

On Friday we headed out to the Eastern edge of Stellwagen Bank to look for the slot size tuna. The seas were choppy, but the bite was really slow with only a couple of boats hooking up in the morning. There were a bunch of whales in the area so we stuck it out. Around noon we managed to get a take down on a deep diver rig. After about a ten minute fight, we got the fish to the boat. Nice 51in slot size tuna.