We have a mix of bass and blues off of Marblehead and Nahant, and along Revere Beach and Wolloston Beach. Boston Harbor has legal bass up to 35 inches mixed in with the school bass. Fishing in the harbor draws to a close around the middle of October, but will remain strong on the South Shore until early November. While the bonito fishing has slowed on the Cape and the Vineyard, false albacore have more than made up for it. The bigger bass will be along before too long.
Anglers heading to the Cape ought to concentrate their fishing on the bay side.
The water on the ocean side cools off faster than the bay side, and the migrating bass all funnel through the Cape Cod Canal. Fishing will increase proportionate to the migration from Duxbury to Plymouth on the Massachusetts side and from Wellfleet to Sandwich on the Cape side. Marion and Westport have been fishing well for school bass and small blues, too. On the outside, Nauset and Chatham have been hot, and there are still some albies around the Elizabeth Islands. In Rhode Island, Newport, Jamestown and Charlestown Beach are all fishing well.