Bluefish Bonanza Begins

The waters around Watch Hill are filthy with bluefish; if these toothy critters are to your liking, now is the time to be out on the water or patrolling the beaches with a rod in hand. Bluefish large and small are everywhere, feeding heavily along the beaches by day, in the surf, beyond the surf and on the reefs. Toss bait at them, or hardware, they are amenable to either.

If striped bass are your pleasure though, things are a bit slow at the moment. Some school bass are along the beaches, and some larger specimens deep on the reefs, but until the bait moves out of the shallows and along the shoreline in force, the bass will play hard to get.

False albacore and bonito are still around too, with Watch Hill Point and the beach behind the Ocean House appearing the be a focal point for these speedsters. But don't delay too long---coastal waters are slowly cooling and these species will not hang around for much longer.