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Black Sea Bass… A Great Catch for Anglers
This year, the minimum size for black sea bass in Rhode Island is 13â. There is a shorter season for the first sub-period due to a 7% reduction required by the At- lantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. The first sub period started Sunday, June 29 and runs to August 31 with a three fish/person/day limit. The second subperiod runs from September 1 to December 31 with a seven fish/person/day limit.Jul 1st, 2014
Fish Focus: Off the Grid, Southbound…
Somewhere beyond the thrill of the hunt, the chase, the cast, the loading of the rod, the fight, the heft of a good fish, there are bigger, more compelling reasons to clear an inlet and steam 150 miles offshore chasing a hunch. Earlier in my career, I lived on the suspense of distant waters chunking and the constant variety of jumbo mystery meat. I lived for the screaming of a reel dumping line so fast against its drag clicker that I heard the sound as two layered tones. Jul 1st, 2014
Weekly RI Fishing Report: 6/27/2014
After what has amounted to a fair hiatus, courtesy of a trip to a wedding up in Juneau, AK, some turbo-injected jetlag, and then Eastern-Fire-Drill conditions late last, weâre back in the saddle on these weekly reports. It has been an eventful two weeks, during which striped bass, flukew, tuna, and shark fishing all went from about 2 knots to 40 knotsâa doubtful outlook as of the first week of June turned wide-open fisheries per the climatic norm here in intermittently sunny and tropical South County, RI.Jun 27th, 2014
AWOL in Alaska
Zach Harvey, master of the fish-geist and creator of these weekly fishing reports has gone awol to Alaska for the week. Jun 13th, 2014
RI Fishing Report: Better Bass Showing Up At Block Island
There's some fair fluke fishing to be had off the south side of Fishers, though youâd be wise to expand your territory beyond world-famous Isabella Beachâa place that tends to concentrate much of the drifting pressure even though there are choice lanes of boulder-strewn, gravel bottom and other prime slabitat all along the south side of that island.Jun 6th, 2014
Fluke Facts, Tips from Experts and Where to Find them
Fluke (summer flounder) should be pretty good this year. If you have not given it a try yet, now is the time. Our fluke fishery is in good shape, so good, fish managers lowered the minimum size in RI last year and are expected to this year to 18â with an eight fish/angler/day bag limit with a fluke season running from May 1 to December 31. In New York State fish man- agers are expected to lower the minimum size this year to 18â with a five fish/angler/ day bag limit with a 128 day fluke season (dates TBD).âJun 1st, 2014
Fish Focus: Stir up Some Shit Father’s Day Weekend
I have heard it said by at least one serious tournament-minded gentleman-ďżźangler type that one can really send his or her competitive advantage rocketing into the stratosphere by not just pre-fishing, but also reserving some of a crewâs collective âme timeâ for seriously high-power...uhhh...strategerizing? (I think thatâs what itâs called.) Jun 1st, 2014Note from the Publishers
We are psyched, again. Waters are warming, boats are in the water and after a brutal winter we are finally gearing up for summer.Jun 1st, 2014
Ocean State Fluke
June is the month when fluke season really begins in our Ocean State. While the commercial guys have been bringing in fluke since May, and a few recreational anglers got lucky, âflukingâ really heats up now. Add the fishapalooza âFluke âTil Ya Puke,â hosted by Big Game Fishing in and Snug Harborâs 7th annual Doormat Derby in Wakefield, and we are on the verge of calling Fluke Rhode Islandâs official state fish!Jun 1st, 2014