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Vineyard Fishing Report June 21, 2025 - Stripers, Blues, and Matching the Hatch
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Artificial Lure here with your Martha’s Vineyard fishing report for June 21, 2025.
Sunrise kicked off at 5:08AM, and you’ve got daylight all the way till sunset at 8:19PM. The weather’s classic Vineyard June—mornings starting off cool and the afternoon shaping up mild, with just enough of a breeze to keep things comfy whether you’re on the water or walking the beach. Skies are patchy with clouds, but humidity is low and the air feels clean, a prime setting for a full day’s cast.
Let’s talk tides: Low hit just before sunrise at 1:39AM, with the morning high rolling in at 8:19AM. Midday sees another low at 1:55PM, with a solid high again tonight at 8:40PM, according to Tide-Forecast.com for East Chop. That means the best windows today are around the morning high and this evening’s incoming. If you’re a fan of fishing moving water—and who isn’t—make sure you’re ready to hit it as the tide swings.
The fishing’s heating up, just like the weather. Striped bass activity has been excellent this week. According to Kismet Outfitters, schools of sand eels have poured inshore and the stripers are on them hard. Shore anglers have been setting up at rocky estuary mouths during high slack and into the outgoing tide. Look for blitzes as sand eels dump out—the bass are gorging and the action can be fast and furious.
Boat anglers are still finding mid–30 inch stripers outside Vineyard Sound, though the bigger fish are thinning as more bait is getting dragged east. The local rips are holding some quality bass and bluefish, but these schools are on the move. If you want to intercept fish, focus on the rips during slack-to-outgoing and don’t be shy with your presentation.
Bluefish have made a strong showing this week, especially along the beaches bordering Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds. Folks are catching blues up to 8 pounds using smaller poppers and metals, so scale down your topwater arsenal for best results. The salt ponds are stuffed with bait, making the adjacent beaches prime for picking off both small stripers and chunkier blues on the outgoing tide.
“Match the hatch” is the name of the game for all you fly and light-tackle folks. Slim olive-and-tan Clouser minnows in sizes 4 and 6 are fooling picky stripers, while metal lips, needlefish plugs, and minnow baits are producing when the fish are more aggressive. For bait, fresh sand eels and live eels are top picks (eel sales are up and so are requests for brown shark baits, if that’s your thing, though no confirmed brown shark catches just yet this week).
Hot spots to target today: Lobsterville Beach for sunrise striper bites, Wasque Point on the outgoing for big bass and blues, and the rocky mouths of the salt ponds if you’re looking for steady action and a good shot at a personal best.
Thanks for tuning in to today’s Martha’s Vineyard fishing report! Don’t forget to subscribe for your daily dose of local fishing insight and hot intel.
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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 kicked off at 5:08AM, and you’ve got daylight all the way till sunset at 8:19PM. The weather’s classic Vineyard June—mornings starting off cool and the afternoon shaping up mild, with just enough of a breeze to keep things comfy whether you’re on the water or walking the beach. Skies are patchy with clouds, but humidity is low and the air feels clean, a prime setting for a full day’s cast.
Let’s talk tides: Low hit just before sunrise at 1:39AM, with the morning high rolling in at 8:19AM. Midday sees another low at 1:55PM, with a solid high again tonight at 8:40PM, according to Tide-Forecast.com for East Chop. That means the best windows today are around the morning high and this evening’s incoming. If you’re a fan of fishing moving water—and who isn’t—make sure you’re ready to hit it as the tide swings.
The fishing’s heating up, just like the weather. Striped bass activity has been excellent this week. According to Kismet Outfitters, schools of sand eels have poured inshore and the stripers are on them hard. Shore anglers have been setting up at rocky estuary mouths during high slack and into the outgoing tide. Look for blitzes as sand eels dump out—the bass are gorging and the action can be fast and furious.
Boat anglers are still finding mid–30 inch stripers outside Vineyard Sound, though the bigger fish are thinning as more bait is getting dragged east. The local rips are holding some quality bass and bluefish, but these schools are on the move. If you want to intercept fish, focus on the rips during slack-to-outgoing and don’t be shy with your presentation.
Bluefish have made a strong showing this week, especially along the beaches bordering Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds. Folks are catching blues up to 8 pounds using smaller poppers and metals, so scale down your topwater arsenal for best results. The salt ponds are stuffed with bait, making the adjacent beaches prime for picking off both small stripers and chunkier blues on the outgoing tide.
“Match the hatch” is the name of the game for all you fly and light-tackle folks. Slim olive-and-tan Clouser minnows in sizes 4 and 6 are fooling picky stripers, while metal lips, needlefish plugs, and minnow baits are producing when the fish are more aggressive. For bait, fresh sand eels and live eels are top picks (eel sales are up and so are requests for brown shark baits, if that’s your thing, though no confirmed brown shark catches just yet this week).
Hot spots to target today: Lobsterville Beach for sunrise striper bites, Wasque Point on the outgoing for big bass and blues, and the rocky mouths of the salt ponds if you’re looking for steady action and a good shot at a personal best.
Thanks for tuning in to today’s Martha’s Vineyard fishing report! Don’t forget to subscribe for your daily dose of local fishing insight and hot intel.
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.