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.
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Cora’s First Amazing Trout
On a pretty late spring day, Cora waited a long time, watching a bobber, hoping for that first amazing trout. The Surfcasters made it happen. The Narragansett Surfcasters, lead by Bruce Bain, held another Take A Kid Fishing Day and this time, one sweet young woman left with a memories and maye a new perspective on life.
Trout Fishing the Deerfield River
With midges and an ace guide, we fished Massachusett's Deerfield River for rainbow, brook and pretty, elusive wild browns. Joe Benson was our guide; he led us easily and wisely, we caught, released and missed a few along the Charlemont stretch of America's hardest working river. It was the best day eva.
2025 Spring Gear Guide for Rhode Island Fishermen
Click to browse our 2025 spring gear guide for all those Rhode Island and southern New England anglers who love quality gear. Click to view.
Brackish Outfitters Builds Lifetime Rods
Brackish Outfitters builds lifetime rods for anglers who appreciate silent streams, city canals and big surf beaches. Owner Geoff Klane ties flies, builds rods and guides clients through deep wooded stretches in search of wild brook trout and long runs of Cape Cod beaches where stripers lurk. Each build is art.
Testing Titan’s Pro55Q Cooler
Titan Pro's 55Q cooler may be one of your best longlife gear purchases. It proved to be tough, very well designed in every way and performed with a common sense approach to adventure food and drink storage. The designers did not miss a thing. This gets the very first Fish Wrap Seal of Approval.
Spring’s Secret Striper Cove
Each new spring offers opportunity and peaceful adventures for salt pond anglers. I return to a favorite secret striper cove, partially undiscovered, silently sublimely obvious, teeming with chances for whatever we call fishing success. Spring revives us, she unlatches her gate to a warm summer, so in this piece, we begin a new fishing year with hope tucked away in plain sight.
RITU’s Annual Fundraiser Banquet
RITU's Annual Fundraiser Banquet is not to be missed by anyone who appreciates cold water conservation, a fine dinner and cool gear auctions both live and silent. With George Daniel at the podium after dinner, you will stock up on gear and advise on how to cast and fish more effectively. This is a wonderful afternoon that supports Trout Unlimited in Rhode Island.
Peace With Snowplow Drivers
We offer 5 tips to preserve the peace between snowplow drivers and your ever-cleaned driveway. It's snow and it's not that hard to get along. You want a clean driveway at all hours and we want clear roads for everyone. A little cooperation and understanding of the bigger picture will get us there.
Trout Unlimited Resurrects Christmas Trees
The annual Trees for Trout collection saved 400 trees from landfills, affording them new lives in a much-loved Wood River next summer. Trout Unlimited and RIDEM joined forces again to save then reestablish Christmas trees to create revetments which will provide shade and shelter to fresh water fishes, like trout. Trout Unlimited beats with a heart of volunteerism and this year was another strong success.
New Year’s Cleanup Time
New Year's Cleanup Time means January is for donating your Christmas tree to Trout Unlimited and shopping with the Surfcasters at Surf Day. You can drop off your tree to help support the Wood River then the following week, shop for new and used fishing gear at the much-anticipated Surf Day. All the details are here.
2024 Late Season Guide
2024 Late Season Gear & Gift GuideWritten By: Todd Corayer, The Fish Wrap WriterFor some, Fall is the most welcomed season of all. Yes, Spring was awesome as the world bloomed and warmed. Summer was all about bass and tuna on the beach. Winter is always packed...
Narragansett Gun Club Shoots For Charity
Looking to support your neighbors while swinging a 12 gauge or standing steady with your favorite pistol? Sign up for the Narragansett Gun Club's Fall Charity Shoot on Oct. 20, 2024. It's a fine way to help some families in need, have fun around a 5-stand and meet some good people who enjoy the fun, safe sport of shooting. All the details are in this edition of Fish Wrap.
Narragansett Surfcasters Blood Drive
The Narragansett Surfcasters are hosting a blood drive and a day fishing with veterans and would love to share a pint with you, so to speak. They are driven to be charitable and could use a few minutes of your time to share their drive. Learn more in this week's Fish Wrap.
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.