Weather Forecast
Fri Aug 17 2018 .Synopsis for Massachusetts and Rhode Island coastal waters... Low pres will move across northern New England Saturday, dragging its associated cold front across the waters. High pres will follow, building over northern New England and Nova Scotia on Sun and Mon. The high will retreat NE on Tue.
Tonight
S winds 10 to 15 kt with gusts up to 25 kt. Seas 2 to 4 ft. A chance of showers with a slight chance of tstms. Areas of fog after midnight. Some tstms may produce gusty winds and heavy rainfall. Vsby 1 to 3 nm this evening.
Sat
SW winds 10 to 15 kt with gusts up to 20 kt, diminishing to 5 to 10 kt in the afternoon. Seas 2 to 4 ft. Areas of fog. Showers likely with a chance of tstms. Some tstms may produce heavy rainfall. Vsby 1 to 3 nm.
Sat Night
N winds 10 to 15 kt with gusts up to 25 kt. Seas 2 to 4 ft. Areas of fog. A chance of showers and tstms. Some tstms may produce heavy rainfall. Vsby 1 nm or less.
Sun
NE winds 15 to 20 kt, diminishing to 10 to 15 kt in the afternoon. Seas 4 to 5 ft. A chance of showers.
Sun Night
NE winds 10 to 15 kt with gusts up to 20 kt. Seas 3 to 5 ft. A chance of showers.
Mon
NE winds 10 to 15 kt with gusts up to 20 kt. Seas 3 to 5 ft. A chance of showers.
Mon Night
NE winds 10 to 15 kt, diminishing to 5 to 10 kt after midnight. Seas 3 to 5 ft.
Tue
E winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas around 4 ft.
Tue Night
S winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 2 to 4 ft. A chance of showers.
Wed
S winds 10 to 15 kt. Seas 2 to 4 ft. A chance of showers.
Wed Night
W winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 3 to 5 ft. winds and seas higher in and near tstms. seas are reported as significant wave height, which is the average of the highest third of the waves. Individual wave heights may be more than twice the significant wave height.
Intel
A cold front is moving into New England waters over the weekend which should shake up the mid august doldrums. Reports may be light over the next few days as winds are supposed to gust to > +25 limiting smaller crafts.
Bait Intel
Its getting difficult to find macs at the east end and off sandwich but they are there you just need to work for them. Anything north on the west side of the pay is mainly pogies as there is no signs of them going anywhere.
Inshore Intel
In the bay the east and and sandwich are still fishing well and holding pockets of large fish. This norteast wind should pin bass and bait in the area for the next few days. Scorton ledge, the fingers, billingsgate are all holding good numbers of sub commercial keeper sized fish but providing plenty of action. Tube and worms and trolling bucktails are working in those areas as usual.
Im not going to touch on the canal because unless you have been living under a rock you know has continued to be lights out for most of the summer contining into this week with large fish being caught consitently during the right tides. Sebille swimmers and hogy paddle tails and live bait are doing the trick.
Bonito and albies are into buzzards bay pretty good now but not hot and heavy yet.
Offshore Intel
The school bluefin have yet to show up as only a handful of sub giant fish have been caught over at crab ledge and the bc buoy over the past week. Giant fishing is still solid at stellwagen as the sharps are producing sellable fish consistently on the south west corner.
South of the vineyard the scene has yet to materialize into anything deemed hot. There are some white marlin and mahi around, but most boats are giving in to share fishing to avoid being skunked.
The canyons have slowed over the past week with a few reported strike outs or only a handful of yellowfine at either atlantis or veatch.