How local guides catch bonito & bonita
We hear from local guides who know how to find and land those favored fish of Fall.
6 men, 6 kayaks and a very big ocean. What fun!
At 5:00 a.m., kayaks were being unloaded in a dark dirt parking lot. Gulls stretched their wings and walked about in only the earliest hint of a calm new day. When all six boats were staged, six fishermen in an impossible array of colors and camo’s smiled […]
The Fish Wrap Writer joins forces with Outdoor Enthusiast Lifestyle magazine
We here at the Fish Wrap Writer are happy to announce that I’ll be joining forces with OEL.com. as the Fishing Editor for the new premier Outdoor Enthusiast Lifestyle magazine. Great articles, how-to’s and photographs will emerge every day from the collective talent assembled to bring you all the […]
Finding Fish in an August Salt Pond
This article appears in the The Shore Times magazine, distributed throughout SouthCounty, Rhode Island. I am more than grateful to be part of that magazine and family of newspapers. For August, for heat, for placid sunrises and windy afternoons, for stripers searching and gorging, for the peace of […]
Waders wet & hands dirty: that’s Trout Unlimited’s Jeff Yates
The cell phone went dead four times in half an hour. From Pennsylvania’s Route 80, Jeff Yates kept calling back because our conversation about conservation was important and timely, in light of an administration bent on overturning basic environmental protections, some as basic as clean water. As the […]
Science never quits (even if you delete it from an EPA website) & fishing for data on URI’s Cap’n Bert
Joe Zottoli told me to be at the dock for exactly 8:50 a.m. It was very clear that details were important, like being on time. He’s studying Biological Oceanography at URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography, runs the deck of their 53’ workhorse research vessel, the Cap’n Bert and […]
RISAA, Fish & the Kids Who Love Them
“Whatever I catch, I’m going to say it was three times bigger.” 13 year old Tim Roberts started a day of fishing by sinking my writing plan. Drifting along Warwick Neck in Captain Tim Wordell’s bright white Cobia, the younger Tim was a camper with the R.I. […]
A Fish Whisperer & An End to the Trailer Trash Saga
So I called the Fish Whisperer. Now is when stripers really head for Block Island but they are fickle, their appetites fluctuate and frustrate. Catching them doesn’t seem to be as easy as it was years back. That said, Islanders enjoy a long view of those beaches and […]
How to find love On The Rocks & other fishing classics
It was a long awaited Friday night fights in South County salt ponds. Finally a full day of warming sun brought cinder worms from the mud to a muddled windy surface so the dance could be begin. It was a worm hatch like you read about, which we […]
Crazy Albert and catching two rainbows with one cast
Dock talk is still all about big bass keeping to themselves at the top of Narragansett Bay. South coast fishermen are finding piles of schoolie salt pond stripers but few keepers. Cinder worms have made only fleeting appearances while sand worms appear to be increasing in numbers. Kayak […]
