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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Fish Wrapped 2017, Part II. The smiles say it all.
“Whatever I catch, I’m going to say it was three times bigger,” said 13 year old Tim Roberts. So begins part two of our year in review, that much-anticipated, semi-obligatory writers holiday crutch, where we succumb to sweet Christmas cookies, Mimi’s salty, perfect...
Fish Wrapping Up 2017, Part One
So it is, the end of another year and we’ve been so fortunate to report on people searching for and catching fish, people protecting resources and people who were just straight away characters. We started by meeting Mike Lee, proud new owner of Al’s Goldfish Lure...
Block Island Winter Peace
Block Island winter peace is something we should all discover. In a loud world of distractions, there remain a few small corners and wide stretches where we can again enjoy the quiet of years past. The Island has that, if you know where to look for winter, no one and Block Island.
Trout Unlimited’s Chris Wood talks public lands, alchemy & casting from a shopping cart
Our landscapes are changing quickly. By some reckoning, we asked for it. We pulled a lever for change in Washington and we got it. The landscape of change became a whole lot larger too. The change people demanded to strengthen some parts of our great country is...
Thankful For Truck Scratches
During this holiday season, there’s more than a few folks thankful for the scratches in their trucks. Thanksgiving presented a multitude of options for sportsmen and even for those a bit more, well, indoorsy. Those in the know caught carp, perch, tautog and...
Celebrating Fall with an English Pheasant Hunt
Along miles of winding trails at The Preserve at Boulder Hills, Fall is celebrated with an English pheasant hunt.
Fish Wrap Episode Four: Stripers, Inspiration & A Guy Named Phil
Episode Four is ready for your listening pleasure. Miles Corayer has been hard at work writing original music and themes. You can listen to our other episodes and see some of our above and below water videos on our YouTube channel, Fish Wrap Writer. We's love you...
Inspiration moves us brightly & Phil Capaldi knows it well
November’s cooling seawater is making for some red-hot fishing. Breachways, beachfronts and river mouths are full of stripers and in some spots, even a few false albacore. As long as an abundance of bait remains inshore, this streak should continue until the first...
Narragansett’s TU earns crucial funding, turbines turn & fishing refuses to wind down
While fishing season may be winding down for some, Glenn Place, President of Trout Unlimited’s Narragansett Chapter, has been working hard to keep members involved in fish conservation efforts. In support of their core mission to conserve, protect and restore North...
Albies Over Time And A Hard Rain
Tear off the November blotter, look for right day and there just may be a few false albacore left along the beaches. Here's how to catch them.
Good Stewardship, Good Fishing
Good Stewardship=Good Fishing. I Heart Logic. The Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island came to the rescue of a Barred owl entangled in fishing line and hanging from a Warwick tree. Being nocturnal, there’s no telling how long that animal had been...
Brian, Tom, a Council & Schools of Munnawhatteaug. Really.
Brian Hall is a pretty supportive guy. He’s a veteran, a fireman, a husband, a relentless kayak fisherman and a rock solid friend who calls some lucky people, “brother.” Brian's had some intel on schools of early morning albies and called in fishing partner Tom...
How storms affect fish and fishing, with some help from Pliny the Elder.
This piece was first written to address pressure which affect fishing, aside from those leveled by significant others who watch chores go undone and front lawns turn to hay fields because the bluefish bite was hot. Then along came Sean Ward. Sean writes a fishing...
Dynamite, Hobie Kayaks, Top Guns & Catching Some Albies…
It feels like dynamite. You can cast for twenty minutes, slam the rod against the gunwales, curse a blue streak or swear you hate fishing. You can pack so many jigs and snax into a plastic box that the lid cracks and cracks again before you finally give up trying...
Albies Rise while Benny’s Sinks
The first schools of albies were seen feeding south of Block Island, now they’re moving inland from the mouth of Narragansett Bay to Watch Hill, bringing a level of excitement equal to Spring’s first stripers. Captain Rene Letourneau of On The Rocks Charters has...
Catching Cape Cod Albies from a Hobie Compass Kayak
We were lucky enough to try out a new Hobie Mirage Compass kayak in pursuit of false albacore on the south shore of Cape Cod. The weather was touch and go but the fish were feeding and to make things even more interesting, the water boiled with King mackerel. What...
Krista Simpson & her Unquiet Professional
Krista Simpson Anderson is on a mission and she could use your help. Krista’s family endured the ultimate sacrifice when her husband, Army SSG Michael H. Simpson of C Company, 4th BN, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), gave his life protecting our country....
2 Rivers 2 Very Different Stories
2 Rivers 2 Very Different Stories indeed. One gets stuffed with garbage while the other flows peacefully and both are loved for their beauty.
Brightest Faces-Biggest Fish
Please meet the Simpson family and their young sons with a keeper striper and have your faith in people and respect for veterans renewed. Brightest faces indeed. This family is an inspiration and man, those brothers, well they can catch some fish.
Capt. Rene Letourneau & Dave Henault: Two Classics Who Really Know Their Fish
Fish swim. When you’re fishing the same reefs the day after bait tye-dyed your color machine and stripers were all but inviting themselves aboard and now you can’t find a single one, you start reaching for answers. Not excuses, explanations. One day does make a...