Macos Bait News Today

Tautog fishing picks up in Buzzards Bay and around the Elizabeths, bass and bluefish gorge on sand eels in Cape Cod Bay, and schools of albies and bonito begin to thin out.

Albies hang around Vineyard Sound and the Elizabeths, rec. size bluefin bite in Cape Cod Bay and south of the Vineyard, and bigger bass reach the south side of Cape Cod.

Big bass chase butterfish and mackerel in the Canal, albies invade Cape Cod Bay and tautog fishing improves in Buzzards Bay.

Here one day, gone the next. Knowing how fast albies are, I suppose I should have expected them to disappear after the wind direction shifted 180 degrees from southwest to northeast between Wednesday and Thursday. Such a significant change in conditions in such a short time typically stirs things up a bit. Albies are finally

Albies are in thick from the south side out to Nantucket, Spanish mackerel join the party, and big bluefish are everywhere from the Canal to the Islands to Cape Cod Bay.

Albies chase schools of silversides, stripers and blues ramp up in the Canal, and fluke fishing holds steady...plus, a tarpon is caught and released on the south side of Cape.

Bonito and bluefish blitz on peanut bunker, larger fluke are caught in Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay, and big stripers take live eels around the Elizabeth Islands.

Gator blues surround the Cape, stripers eat pogies and sand eels in Cape Cod Bay, and small bonito are trolled up south of the Vineyard.

Fluke fishing drastically improves with the presence of sand eels and silversides, bluefish are all over Cape Cod Bay and the Canal saw epic topwater bass fishing.

Sea bass season is off to a great start with big scup in the mix, 30-pound stripers pass through the Canal and flood Cape Cod Bay, and bluefish arrive en masse around Upper Cape.