2021 Fish Wrap Writer Gift Pack Giveaway!
To celebrate the start of the 2021 fishing season(s) – and a shameless plug to get the word out on the Fish Wrap Writer – We’re doing a fun little giveaway contest for a prize pack valued over $100! Simply fill out the form below to enter for a chance to win the following:
- 1 Yeti Tumbler
- Fish Wrap Writer Edition Al’s Goldfish Saltwater Series Lure
- Fish Wrap Writer Canvas Hat
- Fish Wrap Writer Sticker
- $25 Gift Certificate to The Saltwater Edge

CONTEST HAS CLOSED
Drawing closes at 9pm EST Sunday, April 18th. A random winner will be drawn and contacted no later than April 19th by 9pm EST and announced on our Facebook Page. See below for more terms and conditions.
By entering into the contest you may receive marketing emails from Fish Wrap Writer. No purchase is necessary. You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time. Drawing closes at 9pm EST Sunday, April 18th. A random winner will be drawn and contacted no later than April 19th by 9pm EST.
Catch Up on Recent Articles
clam cakes, clam dealer under investigation, musty lures &charlie soares
The Narragansett Surf Casters held their annual “Surf Day-New and Used Tackle Sale" last weekend. A few hundred people braved the cold to check out tables piled high with rods, reels, tattered surf bags, collections of old lures not for sale, books and floor mats. I really did see floor mats. Shopping for gear in a room full of salt deprived fishermen was the perfect place to be on a freezing February day. Harold Reed of Narrow River Rods was there, with a bouquet of a dozen surf rods,...
the bears den, scahbro beach & camaros. i swear this is still a fishing column
this column was first published in the RI Central newspapers a few weeks ago...apologies for the delay Well, we finally got ourselves some winter and hopefully our next installment will include reports of good people catching fish through the ice. Patience now, no one likes being on thin ice; too much can go wrong. Meanwhile, with our people population swelling and the ocean’s decreasing, fisheries managers are constantly searching for ways to assess individual stock’s size and health, control...
amassing rods, foot fetishes, building rods & abe vigoda. huh.
Fishing rods, and my collection of them, are quizzical things, very much like my wife’s shoes and respective stockpile. Equally we require certain general design specifics, rarely in similar price ranges, although we do not share technical or fashion related needs. She and I can both justify our separate acquisitions, through purchase or passage, but rarely are the two spoken of while sharing the company of the other; we choose to largely remain silent, avoiding pointless confrontation. I do,...