Duxbury Bay Fishing Spot
- Last Modified By: carpmaster on 08/03/09 03:36 PM
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Fish Species
Duxbury Bay Baits and Tackle
Dry Fly Check Prices
Crankbait Check Prices
- 1-Minus crankbait in a Bluegill pattern
Stick Bait Check Prices
- Lucky Craft Pointer 100 Golden Shiner pattern.
Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices
- Black Spinner bait with bronze blades.
In-Line Spinner Check Prices
- Mepps inline spinner #0 in silver. Was trying for trout.
Hard Swimbait Check Prices
- blue reble
Jigging Spoon Check Prices
Worm Check Prices
- Senko worms, Power worms, and Tiki worms
- Berkley Gulp Alive 4" natural color worm, rigged texas style on a Gamakatsu G Lock 2/0 hook. It was on a medium action spinning rod with 8LB mono. A real good fight.
- Berkley Gulp Alive Natural - My go to bait.
- Berkley Gulp Alive Natural on the big one.
Mepps inline brass spinner #2 on the smaller one. - Yum Dingers Wacky Rigged Green Pumpkin.
Jerk Bait Check Prices
- wacky rig
couldnt set the hook today...lost alot of bass - Caught on Gary Yamamoto Senko
Minnow Check Prices
Duxbury Bay Description
Duxbury is bordered by Cape Cod Bay to the east, Duxbury Bay, Kingston Bay and Plymouth to the southeast, Kingston to the southwest, Pembroke to the west and northwest, and Marshfield to the north. The town's border with Plymouth is due to the town having the only land access to Saquish Neck, a thin, hook-shaped strip of land along Duxbury Bay whose tip is in Plymouth. Duxbury Bay, on the South Shore of Massachusetts, can be an especially rewarding and exciting place to fish if you enjoy flats- and sightfishing. When the tide drops (80% of its billions of gallons of water drains on each tide), the bay's sprawling sandbars become interlaced with channels that average a foot or two deep. Clotted with baitfish, the channels often fill with striped bass that take advantage of the bait's entrapment. In the words of one local angler, the fishing can get pretty stupid here during the fall run between late September and late October.
One of the more effective ways to fish the bay is to head there at low tide. Pull your kayak or jonboat out on a flat such as Captain's, wade into the shallows, and sightfish. Tie yoiur boat's bow painter around your waist and follow the schools on foot. Fishing like this can be a nice change from passively sitting around on your butt all day towing a trolled tube. Alternatively, on an outgoing tide, beach your kayak at the mouth of any of the dozens of guzzles on the edges of the flats where the flats lie adjacent to deepwater channels. As the guzzles spew bait, large stripers nose around at the guzzles' mouths. Cast a shad-and-jighead, Hopkins or Kastmaster or Roberts and, WHAM! Likely a 28"-plus keeper. Fishing Duxbury at low tide requires some stamina: reaching some of the more productive flats (Captains, the east side of Clarks Island, the Jones River mouth out by the Cowyard) can require up to half an hour of paddling. Just be alert when fishing the flats on a rising tide.