Artificial Lure here with your Martha’s Vineyard fishing report for Sunday, October 19, 2025.

Sunrise rolled in at 6:58 a.m. and sunset’s coming up at 5:56 p.m., so you’re looking at a day with good chunk of daylight—ideal for a mixed day on the water or shore. For tides, CapeTides.com shows our first high tide hit at 12:43 a.m., low at 7:49 a.m., then another high at 1:04 p.m., and finishing with low again at 8:11 p.m. That means your best shot at feeding fish is over those early and midday tide swings.

Morning weather is breezy but workable—according to the NWS marine reports, the Vineyard is calm early with north winds around 5 to 10 knots turning southwest this afternoon, seas a friendly 3 to 5 feet. Tonight, expect winds softening a bit but some showers could move through after midnight. If you’re heading out in a skiff or kayak, keep an eye on those swells off the south shore—safe for the seasoned, but the wind chop can get lively when the tides flip.

Now, for the fishing. The Derby just wrapped and cooler temps have turned on the bite! This past week, Martha’s Vineyard Times reports that surfcasters did great not far from Derby HQ in Edgartown, with persistent action all along State Beach, Bend-In-The-Road, and into Katama. Day and night, stripers are feeding more aggressively with these cool snaps, and we’re still seeing bluefish in respectable schools especially off Chappaquiddick and East Beach.

Boaters working Wasque and Middle Ground have reported bigger striped bass to 36 inches, with bluefish up to 12 pounds popping up on the edges of the rips. The South Shore—especially Squibnocket to Lucy Vincent—produced hard fighting albies this week, though the run is getting spotty as temps drop.

Shore anglers—SP Minnows in bone or mackerel patterns are still king, especially at dawn and dusk. If you’re tossing soft plastics, 7-inch Hogy or Albie Snax in olive or pink are fetching both bass and the last of the false albacore crowd. Don’t underestimate chunk mackerel or fresh squid—those got the edge right now on slower tides.

Boaters are catching with diamond jigs and teasers in deeper rips, but a classic white bucktail tipped with pork rind draws reaction bites in swirling water. For bluefish, nothing beats a simple topwater popper, steady retrieves at slack inlets like Menemsha or Cape Poge.

Best bets for this Sunday:
- The Gut at the tip of Chappaquiddick—fast water and structure means it’s just loaded with stripers on both dropping and rising tide.
- Lobsterville Beach on the north shore—night bites are hot, and bait fishermen landed legal keeper bass here after dark.

Recent catches show a clear autumn pattern—striped bass, bluefish, and the season’s last shot at albies. Folks working eels after sunset between Edgartown and Oak Bluffs found big bass cruising in, and the sand eels washed in at Cape Poge are fueling blitz action when the birds start working.

Quick reminders: Water’s chilly, dress for cold spray, and keep a watch for small craft advisories overnight. The fall run is peaking, so now’s the time to hit it before the season winds down and fish push south.

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