September is prime time for Boston fishing charters 🎣 Cooler water fewer boats and hungry striped bass make this the best month to fish Boston Harbor. This past weekend we had nonstop action with rod-bending excitement. We landed five slot-sized striped bass 🐟 and released many more. Nothing beats the thrill of fighting a striper […] The post Bo...

I found very good numbers of schoolies along  the oceanfront today in some rough water.  I know it is only one day after Labor Day but already the fishing along the oceanfront has taken a big uptick for the better.  Today seemed to have good fishing no matter where you went with very few crowds. I love this time of year. We had a big east wind tod...

🚤🎣 Boston Harbor Fishing Report – Fall Action is On! 🎣🚤 I’ve noticed a lot of talk lately about people following charter boats via AIS. Yes I run AIS—not for people to track me but to keep my customers safe when we’re fishing in fog or low-visibility conditions here in Boston Harbor. If you’re passionate […] The post Fall fishing in Boston is...

Striper fishing has been super for me from the kayak. There are lots of hefty schoolies along  with some good size slots and overs.  If you are a saltwater fisherman you realize that Labor Day is usually the turning point when fishing goes from bad to better. Well it's happened earlier this year.  I'm guessing the cooler weather has had a big effe...

Matt with a big albie on his 39th birthday! Today was my son Matt's 39th birthday. He took a vacation day from work and wanted to know if I wanted to join him and my 4 year old grandson Troy on a fishing expedition to Vineyard Sound in his boat. I was all in! We went there in the hopes of landing a birthday bonito as we heard there were some hit...

Small bluefish in the 3 to 5 lb. range were on the rampage this evening in the Bay. I hit a big pile of bluefish in the Bay this evening. In was fall action with schools of blues tearing through schools of peanut bunker. This has been going on for a while but the intensity was cranked up tonight. I ended up landing 10 of them.  They were 3 to 5...

I I've landed good numbers of bluefish this week in the Bay where the water has been fishable. n the last few days it has been way too rough and dangerous for me to fish the oceanfront.  But I haven't missed a day as I turned to my ace in the hole when the oceanfront is unfishable. The waters from the mid Bay to the upper Bay have been calm clean...

Striped Bass Are Biting in Boston – Don’t Miss Out! 🎣 Right now striped bass fishing in Boston Harbor is at its best. If you have been waiting for the perfect time to go fishing this is it! The striped bass are biting well and every trip has been full of excitement and action from […] The post Striped Bass Are Biting in Boston – Don’t Miss Out! �...

They were around yesterday in the rough water. It's been a familiar theme for me since the early summer. Rough and stormy weather have delivered the good fishing. Calm waters and it has been poor.  I got out yesterday along the oceanfront. It was super windy and rough.  There was a lot of white water in any location where the wind was coming at...

There are decent numbers of bluefish around in Narragansett Bay.  They are chasing down huge schools of  peanut bunker. In the last week I caught more bluefish from shore than I've caught the whole rest of the year.  They've arrived in Narragansett Bay chasing down huge schools of peanut bunker.  These are generally small averaging 3 to 5 lbs. b...

Back in business with a couple of hefty schoolies from the Yak this evening. I've been catching in the last few days.  I found the Mother Lode of peanut bunker and there have been bluefish and stripers on them. It's not crazy but it looks like the start of some better fishing. It's about time!  Yesterday I fished from shore and landed three blue...

Boston Harbor Striped Bass Fishing Report Boston Harbor fishing charters are producing big numbers of striped bass right now! Our Boston striped bass guides have customers reeling in fish after fish and the action has been non-stop. Whether you’re looking for a half-day Boston fishing trip or a full-day striped bass charter this is the […] The pos...

Hailey Pickering age 6 hoists a good size sunfish. I took the grandkids fishing in freshwater yesterday. We fished a very productive and easy to access pond called Jabob's Pond in Norwell MA which was right near their house.  They had a blast catching bluegills and sunfish using mealworms which I bought at Petco since I could not dig any earthwo...

My latest magazine article is titled   Summer Storms Light up the Surf. I was living this story in the last two days! My latest article in The Fisherman magazine just came out in the August edition.  It's titled Summer Storms Light up the Surf.  I've been living this article in the past two days. In the article I write about how summer stormines...

I've seen a major decline in the numbers of  stripers in the last five years. This year is  particularly bad. The facts don't lie.  I looked back at my logs over the last five years to see what my numbers were each year up to this point from 2021 to 2025.  I was shocked but not surprised at what I found. We are currently about halfway through the...

My friend and charter boat captain Jerry Sparks got me hooked up with the Varivas line company.  This Japanese line company was looking for a surf fisherman that could be a field tester for them for their premium braided lines and fluorocarbon.  He recommended me and I'm now using Varivas braided line. I'll bet most of you haven't heard of this...

Striper fishing from shore has bottomed out in the last week.  I don't care whether you fish on stormy days or in the dead of night it is just plain poor. Yes we are in the dog days of summer and July is not a very good month for shore fishermen here in RI.  Read the reports and you'll see it's not good in the Bay it's not good along the oceanfro...

The shore fishing was very good yesterday in some roughed up  water. This slot fish has a bucktail jig  in its mouth.  The jig was fished off a wooden egg float.  I got out yesterday from shore and had a banner day. Conditions were a perfect 10 if you were a surf guy.  It was overcast the surf was roughed up from a front that passed through the da...

I got out a couple of days ago and fished some great water but all I found was this lone  schoolie that I caught on a  bucktail jig. The fishing has  cooled off.  Before that sweltering heat wave we had this week the shore fishing had been very good.  After the hot weather not so good. I got out a couple of days ago and the fishing landscape seeme...

Decked out and ready for a day of fishing  in the sun. I'm very cautious when out fishing in the sun. I take a lot of precautions since I am really prone to skin cancer.  In the last ten years I have had two basal cell carcinomas removed along with one squamous cell carcinoma. One of these was quite problematic and I had to have extensive recons...

I landed this schoolie yesterday while fishing in some rough white water.  It hit a NLBN paddle tail fished off a float. It looks like the cold weather is here to stay.  And with it the striper fishing has really cooled off along the oceanfront.  Yes there are still some around but I get the sense that things are winding down with a lot less fis...