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BLOCK ISLAND ESSENTIALS – DON’T FORGET YOUR NEEDLEFISH

“What do I need to bring with me to catch fish when I come out to Block Island?” is a … Sep 19th, 2015

BLOCK ISLAND SEABASS – FEED ‘EM

Anglers looking to both fill the freezer and enjoy some thrills while bottom fishing this time of year need look no further than the waters surrounding Block Island. During October, black sea bass set up on just about every mussel hump, rock pile and wreck in these fabled waters.Sep 19th, 2015

The Two Faces of Block Island

It might be said—and no doubt has been by droves of writers wiser than I—that the relationships with those we love most are always our most complicated. I’d extend that idea to places as well: Myriad factors of timing—our age, life circumstances, wisdom (or lack thereof), our impulses, our financial means and/or liabilities have much to do with the way we imprint and store memories and construct personal meaning.Sep 19th, 2015

Publisher’s Note: Oct. 2015

As the 2015 fishing season rolls into the last leg out at Block Island, we want to take a minute … Sep 19th, 2015

Publisher’s Note: Sept. 2015

July and August have flown by. Mike is now rocking a new set of hips (we call him Lee Majors), our second daughter is happily married to a great guy (we’ve moved from the “Brady Bunch” to “Eight is Enough” with two awesome new sons in law) and our fishing travels have ranged from home-base to salmon fishing in Alaska and freshwater fishing in Maine. Sep 1st, 2015

BUCKET LIST – SALMON FISHING IN ALASKA

Salmon... King, Silver, Red, Chum and Pink. Halibut as big as we are We had these tasty fish on the brain as we headed to Knutsen Cove Marina in Ketchikan, Alaska to meet with our charter captain and crew. Sep 1st, 2015

This is Supposed to be FUN!

Oh, to have back the untold thousands of hours I’ve squandered in two decades trying to justify my escalating fluke habit to “real” fishermen who measure what they hunt in terms of their own testosterone production. Never mind my 15-plus- year defense of scup fishing.Sep 1st, 2015

WELCOME TO PORGY TIME!

With the kids back in school and a slight drop in nightly temperatures signaling that the fall blitz of surface feeding stripers, blues and false albacore is but a few weeks away, it’s easy to overlook the massing of bottom fish that builds around submerged structure, humps and mussel beds even before the true fall push gets underway. Sep 1st, 2015

TARGET ‘EYES ON LAKE RONKONKOMA

It may seem hard to believe, but Lake Ronkonkoma received its first stocking of walleye over 17 years ago in a test program started in 1994. At the time, it was hoped these ravenous predators would establish themselves and help bring the lake’s stunted population of overabundant white perch, which had decimated Ronkonkoma’s largemouth bass population back into check. Sep 1st, 2015

OCEAN STATE SWORDFISH

Swordfish has had had a bumpy ride over the last 20 years as differing opinions as divergent as those expressed by Sea Web, to my Dad, to the “get ‘em while you can” camp were publicly debated.Sep 1st, 2015