I think if you fished the rivers of Buzzards Bay often, either bunker schools, with a diamond jig, even sea worms or scup chunks and you might catch some. Had some fine catches back in the 70's . Here is a few funky old pics I took of my li'l bro of a couple fish we took a long time ago.
they would usually feed pretty good, then the blues would move in, or a nice bass or 2