Weather Forecast
Tue Jul 17 2018 .Synopsis for Massachusetts and Rhode Island coastal waters... A cold front will approach from the west late this afternoon and move across the waters late tonight into early Wed, while weak low pressure develops along the front south of Nantucket. High pres will follow for Thu and Fri. High pres will move east of the waters Fri night and Sat. 
Tue
S winds 10 to 15 kt with gusts up to 20 kt. Seas 3 to 5 ft. A chance of showers with a slight chance of tstms. Some tstms may produce gusty winds, heavy rainfall, and frequent lightning.
Tonight
S winds 10 to 15 kt with gusts up to 20 kt, becoming SW 5 to 10 kt after midnight. Seas 3 to 5 ft. Patchy fog. A chance of showers. Vsby 1 nm or less.
Wed
N winds 5 to 10 kt. Gusts up to 20 kt in the morning. Seas 2 to 3 ft. A chance of showers. Vsby 1 to 3 nm.
Wed Night
N winds 5 to 10 kt, increasing to 10 to 15 kt after midnight. Seas 2 to 4 ft.
Thu
NE winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 2 to 4 ft.
Thu Night
S winds 5 to 10 kt, becoming SW after midnight. Seas 2 to 3 ft.
Fri
SW winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 2 to 3 ft.
Fri Night
S winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas around 2 ft.
Sat
S winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas around 2 ft.
Sat Night
SE winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 2 to 3 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
Its been a tough couple days out of the water. The onslaught of high temperatures has put a spike in water temperature that has the local waters hovering at almost 70 degrees from inshore out to stellwagen and down teh backside. Add in high humidity and you have thick fog across Massachusetts waters that is sticking aroiund all day due to the high dew points. If you have been out recently this is what you are going to see.
Bass are settling into their summer feeding patters and are hunkered tight to the bottom. The commercial fleet is having as tough time finding keepers as there are mainly sub legal (<34") fish from barnstable up to race point and along the backside. We were out yesterday and found no sings of life once you got past peaked hill and we traveled south of the golfball to highland light.
On the offshore scene a few nice tuna were caught on stellwagen by boats out of Plymouth and Green Harbor but they are few and far between. Theres plentry of bait up on top of the bank and east but the fish especially are not here in numbers yet.
Bait Intel
Mackeral are almost non existance on the west side of the still being caught early off scituate to the north shore. There is plenty of mackeral on the east side of the bay and on top of stellwagen. Schools are thick from teh race down to highland light in 100-150 feet of water.
Pogies continue to hang around the shouth shore and are still thick between plymouth and scituate. The gurnet is holding large school off duxbury beach to Marshfield. There is not alot of bass with them strangly enough.
Inshore Intel
The canal lit up this past week with 20 - 40lb class fish being caught consistently on majic swimmers and savage sand eels. There are large bass being caught off the poggie schools off boston harbor and the north shore.
Offshore Intel
Tuna moved into Cox's ledge a few days ago feeeding on school of squid. The activity has picked up on the south side of the vinyard from Cox's east to Chatham. Been a few fish caught off the sword. Water temp and bait are more condusive to BF then in cape cod bay right now.
Haddock remains good in the dep water off the east of Stellwagen.
Well offshore the cayon crews are targeting Atlantis as a number of Yellowfin and Bigeye have moved in.