Fishing around the Falmouth and Upper Cape area is good and about to get better.

The first two weeks of May saw the majority of migrating bass and bluefish traveling through Buzzards Bay and the Cape Cod Canal.  By mid-May, though, the fish have started to show in good numbers throughout Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds.

Bass are following the squid on their spring spawning run, as well as the herring that are still entering the local runs. Legal fish have been caught at the Middle Ground and Succonnesset Shoal.  People righing the night tides at Trunk River report catching bass of up to 40 inches.

Bluefish have also been caught off Popponesset and should make their South Cape Beach run in a day or two.

Sea bass fishing has been good.  By the third week of May the spawning sea bass should be hanging around almost any wreck or rock pile.

Tautog fishing is slowing down but green crabs, which are finally available, will produce good catches of blackfish.

On the fresh water scene, trout fishing is holding up.  Bass and pickerel fishing is really starting to take off.  Shiners or artificial baits are both producing good catches.