The Fish Wrap Writer Blog
For more than 20 years, we have been learning from and writing about outdoorsmen and women who fish, hunt, hike, pause, and sometimes just look around. Fish Wrap has been published over 480 times. Here you will find articles, interviews, reports, laughs, a few stretched truths (that’s true), and an unfortunate number of obituaries from good folks we have lost.
Please search, enjoy, and let me know if you know someone who we should meet.
Fish Wrap Reviews Tony Jones’ “The God of Wild Places”
Tony Jones' The God of Wild Places brings you to woods or waters, where a baptism awaits or even a sighting of God waiting to embrace you. Mr. Jones offers us his journey, often not so different from ours, of a scrammbled life reborn in light shining through alder thickets and opportunistic aspen. Join Mr. Jones as he takes us through the realities of being perfectly human.
AnglerCatch To Run 2024 Tog Classic
AnglerCatch To Run 2024 Tog Classic means a storied fish tournament gets a shot of technology to help tautog conservation in Rhode Island. And Ralph Craft will be the Tournament Director, so you know this will be a blast. Save the date, October13, 2024, for a big ole' party.
RITU Restoring Breakheart Pond Connectivity
RI's Trout Unlimited chapter has announced a grant to restore connectivity to Arcadia's Breakheart Pond as a legacy conservation project. Brook trout, turtles, eels have been denied safe passage for more than 90 years to cool waters and thermal refuge. This is a banner day for conservation and a clear example of Trout Unlimited's mission to protect and preserve cold water fishes. Read the details right here.
Tomorrow’s Fish Need Help Today
Daniel Ritz has crated a timely report about fish, water and our climate. At the end, Tommorow's Fish Need Help Today needs you to step up. Meet three anglers who are seeing changes in real time, telling everyone around them and asking for your help. Daniel Ritz has crated a timely report about fish, water and our climate. For Tomorrow’s Fish: Anglers Are Key to Climate-Ready Fisheries is a call to action with data, observations and an ask, for anglers to help turn the tide of climate change.
Gathering On A River
A Gathering On A River happens at Whalers Brewery on April 28, 2024, with a host of conservation and fishing folks. Come have a beer with us!
Smoked Bluefish, Fish Wrap Style
Smoked Bluefish, Fish Wrap Style is recipe to help you prepare a fun treat; find all the details on the newest Fish Nerds podcast.
Thanks For Your Patience
Thanks for your patience, Fish Wrap was on hiatus for a while but changes are in sight. Thanks for reading, I appreciate every one of you.
Lt. Lewis Kitts’ Last Alarm
This is Lt. Lewis Kitts' Last Alarm. He has left Jamestown for heaven while friends and family mourn losing such a fine and charitable man. Lew Kitts gave to everyone and took great pride in knowing he helped. He will be missed for years so offer a small tribute to a giant of a man. Calm seas Lew Kitts.
TU Wants Your Christmas Tree
TU Wants Your Christmas Tree Trout Unlimited, a national cold water conservation organization with more than 300,000 members, would like to have your Christmas tree. That may seem an odd request but instead of tossing it onto a curb or over a stone wall or watching...
Surf Day and Stock The Box
Narragansett Surfcaster's Surf Day and Peter Jenkins' Stock The Box Fly Tying Expo help us prepare for stripers, albies & full tackle boxes. Both fight off winter blues and build a sense of community with anglers new and experienced, young and old.
2023 Holiday Gear and Gift Guide
Click to view my 2023 Holiday Gear and Gift Guide as I preview some items an angler in your life would love to receive this holiday season. A variety of cool items you don't want to miss.
Testing ORU’s Beach LT Sport Kayak
ORU Kayaks, ready to be unfolded and loved wherever you go, are feng shui for water. Check out our ORU's Beach LT Sport Kayak test paddle, the easy assembly and maybe just love them like we do. ORU kayaks are so smart and easy to use and when the day's over, they fit in a trunk or under a workbench.
Hunting Pheasant with Bruce and Sedna
Hunting Pheasant with Bruce and Sedna was a highlight of Fall, walking tall grasses for maybe birds but surely time with friends and dogs. Please meet Bruce Leduc, a master craftsman for all things hunting and fish while training dogs to be superior in a field and a friend on a couch with a gentle owner. Cheers Bruce and Sedna.
Wingshooting with Jarad Luchka
Jarad Luchka is an ace guide, total gentleman and a totally focused hunter who loves putting sports on ducks. If you want the best waterfowl experience, read all about him here then book a day in his boat. It's worth every dollar and laugh.
3 Outstanding Outdoor Gear Choices
We offer you 3 Outstanding Outdoor Gear Choices to help you welcome in Fall fun in comfort, safety and style. And they won't break the bank.
Hydrilla Invades Indian Lake
Hydrilla Invades Indian Lake is terrible news so we have information to help you identify Hydrilla and prevent its movement to other waters.
7 Late-Season Kayak Fishing Tips
Fishing from a kayak in cold waters can be fun and safe with a few precautions and the right gear. Here are 7 tips for kayak safety with hopes you get to fish far later and safer into the winter months.
Narragansett Gun Club’s Fall Charity Shoot
Narragansett Gun Club’s Fall Charity Shoot is an inclusive event, for all people, to show of their skills and teach others how to improve theirs. This is a day, steeped in charity, that should not be missed, pun intended...
Albies Are In Bigtime
Albies are in bigtime, from the Avenue's to the Ocean Mist to those fancy Newport cliffs. Now's the time, before waters get churned up since they're sight feeders. When Lee passes us by and waters settle, hopefully albies will peel away from offshore canyons and join us along the shoreline. This week, get your tips to catch them while you can!
Female Fly Fishers And The Flat River
Female Fly Fishers And The Flat River is a celebration of increasing female participation in fishing and the return of a lovely RI river, freed from her stone confines. Trout Unlimited is all over us this week and I'm glad to have them.