Martha’s Vineyard is the optimal location for catching salt-water fish in New England. Each year, thousands of schools of beautiful fish visit our shores. Are you ready to go fishing?

Coop’s Bait and Tackle is a full service fishing shop. Complete with charter fishing services, top of the line fishing equipment, expert knowledge and equipment rentals and sales, our shop is committed to providing fishermen with everything they need to have the best fishing experience possible on Martha’s Vineyard.

Contact us! Our staff is available 6 days a week to assist you in your fishing needs!

Martha’s Vineyard is known for it’s tremendous fishing opportunities. Whether you’re searching for a day on the water or a weekend of surf fishing, Martha’s Vineyard offers a wide array of locations for catching a number of popular saltwater fish. They Include:

• Striped Bass
• Bluefish
• Bonito
• False Albecore
• Fluke
• Flounder
• Codfish

Coop’s Bait & Tackle is a local shop on Martha’s Vineyard. Our team specializes in offering fishing information to locals and summertime visitors and will be happy to assist you! We’ll help you gear up and locate the best places on the Vineyard for surf fishing or boat fishing. Whether you’re looking to rent fishing equipment, purchase fishing equipment or simply find out where the fish are, we’re happy to be your guide. Our shop is easy to find regardless of which town you’re visiting, so drop us a line or swing by to catch the local fishing report!

Through-out the fishing season on Martha’s Vineyard, fishing “hot-spots” change as the fish migrate to warmer or colder areas, regions with more habitable waters, and as smaller bait-fish move to create new feeding grounds.

Coop’s Bait and Tackle has been an informational source for Vineyard fisherman since being established in 1985. Our staff are experts on local waters around the island and can help you navigate to the best fishing grounds, regardless of whether you’ll be surf fishing or boat fishing.

Drop by our shop! We’ll be happy to share some local insider tips with you about where the fish are. Additionally, we’ll help set you up with any lures or fishing equipment you might need to catch a big one.

Each fishing season, Martha’s Vineyard is visited by a large number of fish species. Aside from being a spectacular catch, the fish around the island are beautiful and make wonderful photos for keeping memories. And if that’s not enough, each fish is known for being a unique and wonderful dinner entree. You just need to get out there and catch them first!

Through-out the year Striped Bass and Bluefish are common to Martha’s Vineyard. Striped Bass are known for arriving early in the spring and staying late into the fall, primarily because of their preference of cooler water temperatures.

Bluefish, similar to Striped Bass, can be found around various areas of the coast of the Vineyard throughout the fishing season. Bluefish have a reputation for creating massive feeding frenzies, during which they’ll attack a large number of bait-fish by deploying a wild schooled attack on the unsuspecting smaller fish. During these Bluefish feeding frenzies, fishing can can be very exciting as it is not uncommon to see five or more fishermen in a row with Bluefish on the hook.

Around mid summer, typically around mid July, other fish known as Bonito and Albacore join the fishing scene. Bonito and Albacore are both members of the tuna family and have a football shape with dark backs and silver bellies. These fish commonly prefer warmer waters, hence the reason that they migrate to the shores of Martha’s Vineyard when the water temperature really starts hitting it’s peak.

Coops Bait and Tackle conveniently offers fishing rental equipment, fishing licenses and top notch fishing products. For information regarding fishing rods, reels, lures and bait, please contact us directly. We’re happy to answer your questions!