For anglers chasing albies, metal and epoxy-style casting jigs are tackle box essentials designed to imitate abundant and vulnerable fall run baitfish.

Albies are in thick from the south side out to Nantucket, Spanish mackerel join the party, and big bluefish are everywhere from the Canal to the Islands to Cape Cod Bay.

Henry Simonds reeled in a jumbo albie while fishing for bluefin tuna around the Block Island wind farm.

Stripers and blues are piled in the L.I. Sound rips, fluke fishing is good in south shore bays, and bluefin of all sizes linger at the mid-shore tuna grounds.

Albies chase schools of silversides, stripers and blues ramp up in the Canal, and fluke fishing holds steady...plus, a tarpon is caught and released on the south side of Cape.

On August 13, Cape Cod local Hans Brings caught and released a 5-foot tarpon in the surf.

A three-man crew from Connecticut tied into a toothy surprise during a tuna trip south of Long Island.

Bonito and bluefish blitz on peanut bunker, larger fluke are caught in Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay, and big stripers take live eels around the Elizabeth Islands.

Stephen Phillips of Stoughton, MA reeled in a jumbo flatfish during a ground fishing trip aboard the Helen H of Hyannis.

A late start and engine troubles lead a father/son duo to land a potential state-record king mackerel.