I grew up on Old Harbor Road in Chatham. It is a little early for the big stripers. But your comment took me instantly back to a dozen summers in the Lyman slowly trolling for bass. One July morning I was out with my Grandfather at dawn and as the sun came up, the glassy waters of Pleasant Bay exploded with hundreds of stripers chasing bait fish. With just a plug, I most have caught 10 in as many minutes. Good times.
I am sure Capt Tom can attest, but that area is full of seals now. To the point that they are stealing your fish at times.
I tend to fish the Merrimack River mostly now. Low tide at Joppa Flats. There are not many seals up here.
Even up here in NH the entrance to Rye Harbor, Hampton Harbor and later the north side of the river in Kittery, ME as the summer goes on.