INLAND REPORT:  Trout and fresh water bass fishing remains good with lots of pan fishing too. The shad run in the Indian Head River is still going on. Best fishing is early morning or just after dark. Hot baits are hot pink shad darts on shad flies. Trout and pan fishing in the Indian Head River and above the dam remains good. Best baits are trout worms or salmon eggs on a bobber. Little Pond in Morton’s Park in Plymouth remains okay for stocked trout. Long Pond, also in Plymouth, has been giving up some real nice size trout. On days when there is no wind both Little and Long Ponds have had trout rising to flies. COASTAL REPORT:  Here in New England we are used to the nasty spring weather we get, but enough is enough! Please, Mr. Weatherman (or woman), let’s have sunshine and calm winds for a few days. If water temperatures could rise, fishing would break wide open. From the east end of the canal to Boston Harbor fishing for schoolie and keeper-size stripers is just starting to get hot. All the local hot spots for mackerel are holding good amounts of small spike mackerel (striper candy). Fishing in Duxbury Bay has been real good for schoolies and a few stripers up to 33 inches. Best baits are live mackerel, but trolling or casting plugs at schools of stripers will keep you busy. Flounder fishing is just getting started so don’t overlook them. Soon bluefish will be here.

Outside Green Harbor at the first Red Can, there’s flounder. A high-low rig with sea worms and clams are the best bet here to get some nice flat backs. Over in the Bluefish Cove area, a few keepers and some schoolies are being caught on plugs or live lining mackerel. Out at Farnham’s Rock there are some stripers and schools of spike mackerel. Over in the North and South Rivers, schoolie and keeper size stripers are being caught all the way up the North River to the Union Street Bridge. In the South River there are keeper stripers all the way up to the Marshfield Yacht Club. I have seen some reports of pogies from Duxbury to Boston Harbor. Out at Stellwagen Bank cod fishing has been getting much better with bag limits of 9 fish at 19 inches and up. Haddock along with some good pollock fishing has kept all anglers very happy. There is a lot of bait on Stellwagen Bank. With a little bit of good weather, fishing will really turn on. Back on shore ground fishing is good with some good numbers of cod in the humps around 70 to 100 feet of water.

Don’t forget to take a kid fishing!