Zach Harvey, master of the fish-geist and creator of these weekly fishing reports has gone awol to Alaska for the week. Lisa Helme DanforthJun 13th, 2014
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.Lisa Helme DanforthJun 6th, 2014
Things are starting to come together on multiple fronts all around the state, and warmer weather in the forecast is only going to help things along. Lisa Helme DanforthMay 30th, 2014
One theme among a great many of my sources, New York to Maine, is their insistence that while the striper fishing really hasnât come together in their respective territories, the "table is set."Lisa Helme DanforthMay 23rd, 2014
It's mid-May, weâre fishing down the moon after a tumultuous week of smoking tides, silt, seaweed almost thick enough to constitute a sunken lawn, and the immediate climate of fishing opportunity is safely on the âyawnâ side of the lights-out-explosion-action-blitz-bonanza threshold.Lisa Helme DanforthMay 16th, 2014
In this, the first week of the winter format for these Friday-morning entries, I had planned to take a preliminary look at the winter cod fishing south and east of Block Island.Lisa Helme DanforthDec 6th, 2013
As the weather continues to deteriorate, and we head ever closer to the hard-wired biological kill-switch for fishing in RI waters, we are in the process of overhauling the way we handle our weekly columns with an eye on the winter months.Lisa Helme DanforthNov 25th, 2013
Mike Wade at Watch Hill Outfitters was winding down after a couple of very long days down at Hal Brown, one of the regionâs primary fishing tackle wholesalers, whose fall show at their CT headquarters serves as a first look for many of the local shops at what gear will be lining the peg boards next season. Lisa Helme DanforthNov 8th, 2013
After weeks of âfallâ fishing, this season seems to be shaping up as a case-in-point that migrations probably have more to do with moons, the angle of the declining sun, or some other unseen variable than they are about water-temp guidelines or the timing of the line storms, or all the other supposed smoking-gun variables in autumn angling.Lisa Helme DanforthOct 7th, 2013