Fall Fishing

The tautog are taking green crabs off of the rocky structures in Nantucket Sound. Many are shorts and have to be thrown back, but it sounds like if you put in the time you can get your limit with out having to go too far.

Bigger striped bass have been caught on live eels from shore at night in the bays, harbors and estuaries. Although, the Southside blues have been biting those eels in half, so bass hunters beware.

You may get lucky and hook an albie that’s still feeding on the small bait close to shore, but albie reports have quieted down the last week or two.

In fresh water reports, Fisheries and Wildlife has begun it’s fall trout stocking program. Several fly fishermen have reported good luck catching the holdover trout on small streamers, gnats and wet flies.