Free-falling water temperatures are driving stripers, blues, black sea bass, tautog, and groundfish all into feeding mode.

Roving packs of bass are moving along area beaches picking off mackerel chunks as well as clams on the bottom.

Dropping water temperatures are pushing the blues out, and bringing the pogies in with stripers up to 50 pounds in-tow.

Inshore of the Isles of Shoals is THE place to be for 30- to 50-pound stripers while anglers working the night shift in southern Maine with eels and big soft plastics are getting into good numbers of big bass.

South Shore stripers up to 50-inches are being taken on eels while bonito, in both big and small versions, have made an appearance from Provincetown through Scituate.

Anglers are landing big blues on topwater plugs, bigger bass remain by the Isles of Shoals as well as off Kennebunkport, while offshore, pollock numbers are good along Northern Jeffrey’s Ledge and Tantas.

Big blues are blasting plugs north and south of Boston, North Shore stripers are slurping eels at night, while further south, mahi mahi and yellowfin tuna are in abundance offshore.

It’s pollock pandemonium out there as anglers target those tackle-testers and say, “Meh, who needs haddock?

Stripers and bluefish take eels and mackerel on the North shore, fluke bite on the beaches near Boston, and tautog feed aggressively on the South shore.

Striper anglers chasing bunker schools and slinging eels at night to find bigger bass, while offshore, pollock fishing has been very good out on Jeffrey’s Ledge.