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Shining A Light on Palm Beach and the Treasure Coast

While tautog continue their tear along the South Shore and South Coast, the freshwater bite is picking up with pike, salmon, rainbows and lakers binging.

Bass and blues are in binge mode and can be found wherever pogies are schooled up.

Spanish mackerel and false albacore are in binging on bait, stripers and bluefish are making short work of peanut bunker, and double-digit cod are scoffing down clams and crushing jigs.

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.

The front line for striped bass has shifted from rivers to embayments and harbors, and tautog gathering around structure in deeper water as they wrap up their spawning.

The first wave of the spring striper run has arrived with slot-sized bass being caught from the Cape through Boston.

Clear Lake Patrol Officer Conner Smith was sworn into office at the Clear Lake City Council meeting on Monday, Aug. 15.

Justus Ebert's pamphlet on the Lawrence textile strike and the trials of Ettor, Giovannitti and Caruso, IWW organizer falsely charged with murder in connection to the strike. Written in 1913.

Massachusetts Fishing Report – July 22, 2021 July 22, 2021 If you’ve been chasing striped bass since April, and just maybe earlier if you’re a holdover loony, than chances are you may be in need of a change. Filling that void is the arrival of bonito! While it is not unheard of to have these fish rip through Massbay, to have this happen in July is extremely rare. Even more exceptional is the size of these fish which would be impressive even in Buzzards Bay! Massachusetts North Shore Fishi...