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The spring migration run of striped bass will soon be underway. The water temperatures off Narragansett this week was 41 degrees. Traditionally, 55 degrees is when the fish are here
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.
A mahi is caught in the Nantucket surf, stripers hit the inlets to rivers and salt ponds, and the Cape Cod Canal sees gator bluefish, bass and albies.
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.
Fresh schoolies feed on sand eels while big bass and bluefish chase squid in the rips, and fluke fishing improves amid a slower start to sea bass season.