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Summer Sizzle on Martha's Vineyard: A Fishing Report
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Artificial Lure here, bringing you your June 18, 2025, Martha’s Vineyard fishing report.
Sunrise hit at 5:08 AM and sunset’s not till 8:18 PM, so there’s plenty of daylight to get after it. We’re rolling into peak summer action, and the island is heating up with fish and anglers alike. The current weather—mild temps and a gentle southerly breeze—has been near perfect. Expect shirtsleeve mornings, a bit of cloud, and comfortable water conditions inviting the summer bite.
The tides today at East Chop are friendly: high tide came at 5:20 AM, low tide will be 11:14 AM, followed by another high at 6:00 PM and a midnight ebb. That means your prime windows are around the sunrise flood and the evening high—classic Vineyard striper conditions as moving water stirs up the bait.
The fishing is on fire. Striped bass are the main show, and the big ones have arrived—the slot-size and even outsized cows are working all the usual haunts. Reports from Dick’s Bait and Tackle and other local captains say sunrise and sunset on the outgoing tide is putting trophy-class stripers in the wash. Lobsterville Beach and Wasque Point have been especially productive. Shore casters are scoring on metal lips, needlefish, and classic minnow plugs for picky bass. If you’re heading out by boat, flutter spoons and live pogies have been slaying quality fish up to 45 inches.
Bluefish activity is building—there are more of them around this week, some topping 30 inches, mostly out front but with choppers chasing pencil poppers and metals right along the south-facing beaches. Black sea bass and fluke have also joined the party, with keeper-sized flatties cruising the shoals and some jumbos showing up in the deeper edges of Vineyard Sound. The sea bass bite is strong, especially around the rocks between Oak Bluffs and West Chop.
For tackle, keep a mix: topwater poppers and pencil plugs at first and last light, and bucktails or SP Minnows when it’s bright. For sea bass and fluke, drop down with squid strips or Gulp! artificials on hi-lo rigs. Live eels or chunked mackerel also tempt the biggest bass after dark.
Top hot spots today: Wasque Point for surf stripers at dawn, and the edges of the Hedge Fence and Lucas Shoal for boaters chasing sea bass, blues, and fluke. Don’t sleep on the stretch from Menemsha to Lobsterville either—the rips and current breaks there have been holding schools of bass and blues.
Thanks for tuning in to today’s report. Be sure to subscribe for daily updates and tight lines out there!
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This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
This episode includes AI-generated content.
Sunrise hit at 5:08 AM and sunset’s not till 8:18 PM, so there’s plenty of daylight to get after it. We’re rolling into peak summer action, and the island is heating up with fish and anglers alike. The current weather—mild temps and a gentle southerly breeze—has been near perfect. Expect shirtsleeve mornings, a bit of cloud, and comfortable water conditions inviting the summer bite.
The tides today at East Chop are friendly: high tide came at 5:20 AM, low tide will be 11:14 AM, followed by another high at 6:00 PM and a midnight ebb. That means your prime windows are around the sunrise flood and the evening high—classic Vineyard striper conditions as moving water stirs up the bait.
The fishing is on fire. Striped bass are the main show, and the big ones have arrived—the slot-size and even outsized cows are working all the usual haunts. Reports from Dick’s Bait and Tackle and other local captains say sunrise and sunset on the outgoing tide is putting trophy-class stripers in the wash. Lobsterville Beach and Wasque Point have been especially productive. Shore casters are scoring on metal lips, needlefish, and classic minnow plugs for picky bass. If you’re heading out by boat, flutter spoons and live pogies have been slaying quality fish up to 45 inches.
Bluefish activity is building—there are more of them around this week, some topping 30 inches, mostly out front but with choppers chasing pencil poppers and metals right along the south-facing beaches. Black sea bass and fluke have also joined the party, with keeper-sized flatties cruising the shoals and some jumbos showing up in the deeper edges of Vineyard Sound. The sea bass bite is strong, especially around the rocks between Oak Bluffs and West Chop.
For tackle, keep a mix: topwater poppers and pencil plugs at first and last light, and bucktails or SP Minnows when it’s bright. For sea bass and fluke, drop down with squid strips or Gulp! artificials on hi-lo rigs. Live eels or chunked mackerel also tempt the biggest bass after dark.
Top hot spots today: Wasque Point for surf stripers at dawn, and the edges of the Hedge Fence and Lucas Shoal for boaters chasing sea bass, blues, and fluke. Don’t sleep on the stretch from Menemsha to Lobsterville either—the rips and current breaks there have been holding schools of bass and blues.
Thanks for tuning in to today’s report. Be sure to subscribe for daily updates and tight lines out there!
This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
This episode includes AI-generated content.