South Shore stripers up to 50-inches are being taken on eels while bonito, in both big and small versions, have made an appearance from Provincetown through Scituate.
Big blues are blasting plugs north and south of Boston, North Shore stripers are slurping eels at night, while further south, mahi mahi and yellowfin tuna are in abundance offshore.
Fishing is good up and down the coast, with a variety of good options including South Coast fluke, stripers and slab scup all feeding, a good fluke bite in Vineyard Sound and Tautog crunching crabs on wrecks and ledge throughout the South Shore.
Slot-sized stripers are chasing macs on the South Shore and along the inner Boston Harbor while bluefish have added some badly needed diversity to sport-fishing in Massbay.
While an influx of baitfish has Boston bass biting, the black sea bass and fluke action in Buzzards Bay has been excellent and tuna have been chasing sand eels up through the SW Corner of Stellwagen Bank.