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Cow Bass Parade Continues at Block IslandāBut No 100-Poundersā¦
Iāve been around this racket long enough to have learned the hard way not to dismiss even the most seemingly asinine rumor. The fact is, people catch obscenely huge fish of all species at the strangest of times in the strangest of places, year after year after year.Jul 18th, 2014
Weekly RI Fishing Report: 7/11/2014
The storm last weekend came up well short of the early media uproarāwe saw precious little wind, and groundswell on the low end of average by tropical-low standardsābut the unsettled weather, very heavy rains, and also the tumultuous weather patterns than came on in the wake of the big offshore low seem to have had a significant cumulative impact on most of our local fisheries. Jul 11th, 2014Weekly RI Fishing Report: 7/4/2014
Unsettled Weather Throws Wrench In the Works for Fourth Fishing Plans Iām used to penning tropical-storm-inspired caveats and disclaimers in … Jul 4th, 2014
What’s Happened to Newport? Monster Shark and the Barenaked Ladies Come to Town
Newport is at once historic and hip. The home of the Volvo race and world-class sailing. And now for the first time, it has its own world- class fishing event. The weekend of July 18 ā 20 will bring a whole new excitement to town. Not the Volvo, the Monster Shark Tournament. This weekend promises to bring its own brand of excitement and fun, education and learning.Jul 1st, 2014
The Monster Sharks are Coming to Newport
The 28th, one and only, Monster Shark Tournament is coming to Newport this summer, July 17th ā 20th. The lifeās work of the late Ste- ven James, this year the tournament will be held to honor Steve, a friend to many in the fishing community in New England and throughout the country.Jul 1st, 2014
Pabst Blue Ribbon Fishing Tournament
The 3rd Annual Pabst Blue Ribbon Striped Bass, Bluefish and Fluke Tournament kicked off June 1st. The Tournament is open to anglers who fish the waters off Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Long Island. On its first day, four weigh-ins came through the Tournament Office including a 42lb 90z striper caught by Chris Landry in the Boat Division in Long Island Sound. Peter Kosciukiewicz took in a 25lb 5oz striper from the shores of Rhode Island and Howard Ward and his nephew, junior angler Kevin Fasulo also had some luck, weighing in a 6lb 7oz fluke and a 7lb 11oz fluke, respectively. Both Ward and Fasulo caught their fish off Fishers Island.Jul 1st, 2014
Black Sea Bass… A Great Catch for Anglers
This year, the minimum size for black sea bass in Rhode Island is 13ā. 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, weāre 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 knotsāa 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