Artificial Lure here with your Martha’s Vineyard fishing report for Sunday, November 9, 2025.

Today’s sunrise was at 6:26 AM, and sunset’s coming up at 4:26 PM. The Vineyard’s sliding into short-day fishing now, so you want to get out there early or stick it out right up to dusk. Tide-wise for Oak Bluffs today, early risers caught a low just after 3:30 AM, rolling into a high around 10 AM, with the next low at 3:44 PM—classic fall swing that’s always worth timing your casts around. Out at Lucy Vincent, high tide hits about 3.5 feet at 3:28 AM, then low around 10 AM—with another push coming mid-afternoon.

Weather’s cooperative: expect partly sunny skies with highs scraping 59°F and a gentle SW breeze, keeping the surf manageable and perfect for casting plugs along the sandbars and rocks. Water temps have been slipping but still hanging in the mid-50s. No drastic fronts in the immediate forecast, but some rain could roll in Monday, so today is prime.

After a noisy week of wind and storm, the water’s finally cleaning up, but it moved a ton of bait. Peanuts are stacked back in the ponds and harbors, with some adult bunker around here and there. According to The Average Angler, those menhaden storms sent a fresh pulse of food into motion, and now we’re seeing that classic late-run drama: striped bass on the move and on the feed. Keeper bass have been decent this week, with scattered catches in the 28–36" range, and though the real cow push never quite blitzed the beaches this season, fish are still trickling through—a lot of quick “one and done” action and then nothing, so mobility matters.

False albacore are basically a memory at this point, but there have been whispers of a bluefish or two for folks grinding the rips near Wasque. Tautog fishing is picking up around West Chop and the jetties—green crabs still the go-to bait, especially around slack tide. A couple of tog limits hit the scales this week, mostly in the three- to five-pound range.

Best bets for lures right now: flat-sided metal like Charlie Graves tins, Deadly Dicks, and classic Hopkins for distance—especially early or right at sundown when bass push in shallow. If you’re targeting tog, bring green crabs and stout leader; for bass at first light, a white or olive soft plastic paddle tail like a 7" Hogy is hard to beat, especially bounced slow in the wash to mimic stunned peanut bunker or sand eels.

As for hot spots, don’t overthink it—start at the Menemsha jetty for easy tide swings, or try the east-facing beaches at East Beach down on Chappy. The Wasque rip is worth a look if you still have a boat in the water, but make sure conditions are safe before you buzz out, as the seas can stack up quick this time of year. From shore, Lobsterville Beach is holding bait and still coughing up a few surprise late-run bass at dusk.

Thanks for tuning in to your Vineyard fishing report. Be sure to subscribe for more updates, and good luck out there—keep moving, fish smart, and enjoy every cast.

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