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| The place is loaded with large black sea bass. |
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| Buzzards Bay also has a good striper population. This biggie hit a Slu-go in one of the shallow water coves. |
Buzzards Bay is the black sea bass capital of the east coast at this time of year, and it didn't disappoint yesterday. We had all we wanted as we had fish after fish on many drifts. And, most were over the 15 inch keeper mark with some real bruisers mixed in. We also got quite a few scup in the mix. My brother Steve was getting his fish vertical jigging bucktail jigs spiced with curly tails. I was getting mine jigging a Kastmaster XL.
When we got tired of the black sea bass, we went exploring along many of the coves and outflows for stripers and bluefish. We found good numbers, catching several keeper stripers and quite a few blues to 6 lbs. While the bass loved my white Slug-gos, the blues chopped them mercilessly. I then went with a Sebile Magic swimmer which seemed to work with equal effectiveness.
Buzzards Bay should continue to produce until the water warms up. Good fishing generally holds up well there until late June.