Fishing in Hull, MA: Hull Gut, Pier & Bait Shop
Hull's fishing identity centers on one genuinely hazardous, genuinely productive piece of water: Hull Gut, the narrow, tanker-trafficked channel between Pemberton Point and Peddocks Island where striped bass in the 30-pound class show up regularly and the current and shipping traffic both demand real respect. Pemberton Point Pier is the town's actual public shore-fishing access point, Hull Bait & Tackle at 288 Atlantic Ave is a long-running, currently operating shop confirmed fresh for this page, and one Hull-based charter captain, Mike Angellis of Out of the Blue Fishing Charters, could be independently verified as active. This page also pulls from a dated, early-July-2026 regional fishing report to show what was actually being caught in and around Hull's waters at the time of this research, rather than leaning on generic seasonal claims alone.
Hull Gut: The Currents and Structure That Hold Fish
Hull Gut is a narrow, naturally dredged channel roughly half a mile wide and about 35 feet deep, running between Pemberton Point at Hull's northern tip and Peddocks Island's East Head, forming (together with the separate West Gut) the southern entrance to Boston Harbor's Inner Harbor. A dedicated write-up from The Fisherman magazine describes it as a real striped-bass spot, with fish in the 30-pound class caught regularly and historical reports of fish over 60 pounds. From shore, the recommended approach is casting 2-to-6-ounce jig heads rigged with soft plastics like Slug-Go or Hogy-style baits, working deep, fast water on or near the bottom in a style the same source compares to fishing the Cape Cod Canal; swimming plugs cast from the northern bar area are another shore option. From a boat, anglers drift live eels at night or fish live or dead menhaden and pogies during the day, with Crippled Herring jigs kept close to the boat as an alternative presentation.
The Gut earns its hazardous reputation honestly. The Fisherman's own account calls it a narrow passage regularly used by tanker ships, with a rough bottom that costs anglers gear, heavy daytime boat traffic that creates real safety risk, and strong currents that demand casting up-current and giving a jig time to sink before it is swept past the strike zone. As the same source puts it, buoy hazards in the channel mean that if it comes down to your boat against the buoy, your boat will not win. Night fishing with eels is generally described as the more productive and less congested approach; daytime traffic is what makes the area genuinely dangerous rather than merely inconvenient. Shore access is via Nantasket Avenue at Hull's northern end, near the old windmill landmark that gave the Pemberton area its earlier name, Windmill Point.
A Real, Currently Operating Hull-Based Charter Captain
Fresh research for this page found one Hull-based charter operation that could be independently corroborated across multiple current sources: Out of the Blue Fishing Charters, run by Captain Mike Angellis out of Hull, MA, targeting striped bass, bluefish, and flounder, with gear included per the operation's own site. That same business is separately confirmed via a Yelp listing for a Hull, Massachusetts fishing charter (updated as recently as June 2026 per Yelp's own listing metadata) and an active Facebook business page under the same name and Hull, MA location. This pass could not pull the full body text of either the operator's own site or its Facebook page directly (both returned only limited or restricted content to the tools used here), so specific trip lengths, current rates, and the boat's make and length are not confirmed in this pass — anyone booking should verify those specifics directly with the captain before making plans.
That said, this is one confirmed captain, not a fleet. A broader charter-listing check (FishingBooker's own Hull, MA destination page) turned up roughly a hundred charter listings tagged to the Hull area, but every operator actually named on that page is based in a neighboring town — Hingham, Winthrop, Quincy, or Boston — rather than in Hull itself. This page will not relabel those neighboring-town operations as Hull businesses just because an aggregator's radius search happens to sweep them in.
Hull Bait & Tackle: A Real, Long-Running Shop
Unlike neighboring Cohasset, which this site's own research could not connect to any dedicated bait-and-tackle storefront, Hull has a real, confirmed one: Hull Bait & Tackle at 288 Atlantic Ave, Hull, MA 02045, phone 781-925-4667. A Better Business Bureau profile for the shop lists 32 years in business (dating it to 1994), a single-employee operation owned by Laurel Schreiver, and an A+ rating with no noted complaints, though the shop is not itself BBB-accredited. A Yelp listing for the same address and phone number was updated as recently as May 2026, and the business also maintains its own Facebook page and appears in multiple general business directories — a reasonable spread of current, independent confirmation for a small local shop.
This pass did not independently pull the shop's current hours or a live inventory list, so anglers planning a specific trip should call ahead — 781-925-4667 — to confirm hours and stock before making a special trip, especially outside of peak striper season.
Pemberton Point Pier and What Was Actually Being Caught
Pemberton Point, at the tip of the Nantasket peninsula near 189 Main St, is Hull's genuine public shore-fishing and harbor-viewing access point, open dawn to dusk with benches, informational kiosks, and ADA-accessible paths, per the North and South Rivers Watershed Association's own listing for the site. The adjacent Pemberton Pier also serves as the MBTA ferry terminal to Long Wharf and Logan Airport and remains open to the public, though the point itself has no boat-launch facility for trailered boats. The same source flags a genuinely important caveat worth repeating rather than glossing over: some Massachusetts fisheries carry advisories for mercury, PFAS, or other contaminants, and anglers planning to eat their catch should check the state Department of Public Health's own fish-consumption-advisory database for current guidance before doing so.
To show real, dated activity rather than only generic claims, a regional fishing report published July 2, 2026 (On the Water magazine's Massachusetts fishing report) described striped bass working the stretch from near Hull out through Nantasket Beach and toward Point Allerton, taking X-Raps and Mojo Rigs, and noted squid showing up at Pemberton Pier itself, with some anglers netting them there and then drifting them live along Hull Gut or fishing them on the bottom as bass bait. The same report also covered flounder off nearby Peddocks and Georges Islands in the harbor approach, and mackerel and tube-and-worm striper action at spots like Minot Light, World's End, and several Hingham-side beaches — those last locations sit in neighboring towns, not Hull itself, and are noted here only because they appeared in the same regional report used to source the Hull-specific detail above.
Permits and the Honest Bottom Line
Most Massachusetts saltwater anglers age 16 to 59 need a Recreational Saltwater Fishing Permit, currently $10 and valid through December 31 of the year issued, per Mass.gov; anglers 60 and older need the same permit but get it free, anglers under 16 are exempt, and anyone fishing aboard a permitted for-hire charter or head boat is also exempt because the vessel's own permit covers them. Regulations, seasons, and size/bag limits change from year to year, so anyone fishing Hull's waters should confirm current rules directly on Mass.gov before heading out, rather than relying on any general guide, including this one.
The honest bottom line: Hull's confirmed fishing infrastructure is real but modest — Hull Gut's currents and structure, Pemberton Point Pier's public shore access, Hull Bait & Tackle's long-running Atlantic Ave storefront, and one independently verified charter captain, Mike Angellis of Out of the Blue Fishing Charters. If additional Hull-based charter operators exist beyond the one confirmed here, this pass did not independently verify them, and this page will not invent names to round out the picture. Anglers who need gear, bait, or local intel beyond what Hull itself offers can also find dedicated shops and charter fleets in nearby South Shore towns such as Hingham, Quincy, and Scituate — all businesses and operating details here should be reconfirmed directly before a trip, since hours, ownership, and availability change.
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Get a Free Agent Referral →Independent research. No ads. No sponsored listings. Facts drawn from this site's own Hull, MA competitive-game-plan research (Hull Gut's geography connecting Pemberton Point and Peddocks Island, and Pemberton Point Pier's role as a public fishing spot, both per Wikipedia; Hull Bait & Tackle's confirmed presence at 288 Atlantic Ave per earlier Yelp/BBB checks) plus fresh research for this page: The Fisherman magazine's dedicated Hull Gut fishing write-up (species, techniques, and hazard detail); a Better Business Bureau profile and a May-2026-updated Yelp listing independently confirming Hull Bait & Tackle's current operation, ownership, and phone number; Out of the Blue Fishing Charters' own site plus a Yelp listing and Facebook business page confirming Captain Mike Angellis as a currently active, Hull-based charter operator; the North and South Rivers Watershed Association's Pemberton Point listing; On the Water magazine's July 2, 2026 Massachusetts fishing report for dated, current catch detail; and Mass.gov's own recreational saltwater fishing permit page for license rules. Left open rather than invented: Out of the Blue's specific boat make/length, trip lengths, and current rates (the operator's full site content and Facebook posts could not be fetched directly in this pass); Hull Bait & Tackle's current hours and inventory; and whether any additional Hull-based charter operators exist beyond the one confirmed here. Verify current business hours, pricing, licensing rules, and any specific charter or shop details directly before planning a trip.