May 16th Duxbury Bay Report

4:30 AM launch from Taylor under a foggy false dawn — no Right Whales in sight (miss you), just a fast cruise past the crossovers to the bait grounds.

Thirty patient minutes and we had all the macks we needed to live-line. Only one other boat in the mist — early bird gets the worm.

We slid into Duxbury Harbor and started live-lining right at the fingerling, hugging the bayside of Clarks. The bait was thick, and bass were stacked — schoolies and keepers mixed in as the tide bottomed out.

With the harbor to ourselves, we worked every layer of water: live-lining, tossing topwater plugs, and bucktail jigging. The variety paid off — both Brendan (Foodies South Shore) and I hooked our first stripers of the season.

Bait’s building. Big bass are close.

Stay salty.