| Acknowledgments | ix |
| Introduction | xi |
Part 1. | The Fish and How to Catch Them | 1 |
1. | The Fish | 3 |
| Striped Bass | |
| Bluefish | |
| Flounder and Fluke | |
| Other Game Fish | |
2. | The Fishing | 15 |
| Where Fish Hide | |
| Bait Fishing | |
| Lures and Lure Fishing | |
| Fly Fishing | |
| Party and Charter Boat Action | |
Part 2. | Where and When | 35 |
3. | North of Cape Ann | 37 |
| Season Kickoff: Merrimack River Shad | |
| Salisbury Beach | |
| Newburyport and the Merrimack River | |
| Plum Island | |
| Ipswich Bay Rivers: The Parker, Rowley, Ipswich, Essex, and Annisquam | |
4. | Boston Harbor and the North Shore | 61 |
| Oceanside Rockport and Gloucester to Manchester | |
| Gloucester Harbor and the Annisquam River | |
| Manchester Harbor and Beaches | |
| Beverly, Salem, Salem Harbor, and Marblehead | |
| East-Facing Marblehead, Swampscott, and Nahant | |
| Lynn Harbor, Saugus River, Revere Beach, and Winthrop Beach | |
| Boston Harbor Rivers and North of President Roads | |
| Boston Outer Harbor | |
5. | South Boston and the South Shore | 89 |
| South Boston, Quincy Bay, and Hull | |
| Cohasset | |
| Scituate Harbor and the North and South Rivers | |
| Marshfield's Green Harbor | |
| Duxbury, Kingston, and Plymouth Bays | |
| Plymouth to Sagamore | |
| Western Buzzards Bay from Wareham to Fairhaven | |
| The Southeast Coast: New Bedford to Westport | |
6. | Cape Cod | 117 |
| Cape Cod Canal | |
| Cape Cod Bay | |
| Sandwich Harbor, Scorton Harbor, and Barnstable Harbor | |
| Dennis to Eastham Along the Bay | |
| Wellfleet Harbor and Billingsgate Shoal | |
| Truro and Provincetown | |
| The East-Facing Cape: Provincetown to Chatham to Monomoy | |
| Harwich to Dennis to Yarmouth and the Bass River | |
| Hyannis to Mashpee | |
| Falmouth | |
| The Islands | |
| Pocasset, Monument Beach, and Bourne | |
Part 3. | Final Thoughts | 153 |
7. | Conservation | 155 |
| Resources | 159 |
| Bibliography | 165 |
| Index | 167 |