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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fly fishing explained then we meet warren winders & cheeky reels
Fly fishing specific shows offer a glimpse into this passive riverine alter-universe...Warren is a guy who I suspect could wade into a quiet piece of shallow water, find catch net and release a fine brook trout and not think to tell you about it that night...with 18 zippers and clippers for zingers for nippers and tippets...Spin fishermen tend to be the jeans and t-shirt crowd, often with very clever use of the word “hooker”...
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....
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...
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....
‘Gansett Surf Casters, Crazy Albert & the Amazing Kira
Sure, it’s officially winter now that we have snow drifts, salted roads and finally a chance to break out the power augers before opening day gets here. To keep the chill off and the focus back on fishing, the Narragansett Surfcasters meet regularly to listen to...
Sven, Anya, Shotguns & a phone ringing off the hook
It doesn’t really sound like fireworks. The firing of a shotgun is a special sound; a brief bang, often a little deep toned or flat, depending on the load. In the right atmospheric conditions, the sound can travel some but it’s the sound of sport and nothing new to...
eagles, suffering cod stocks & a wicked cool fishing club
It’s the wee hours of the new year, fishing’s slow, snow’s coming and largely it’s only the head boats out south of the beach. There are, however, a few news items of interest. The cement work is finished on the out-migration side of the Post Road...
fishing show season, rod building & a ton of jerky
There is no snow, not even frost and the ponds haven’t hardened up yet. Columbus Day garlic cloves, planted deep in seaweed compost, have grown taller than their straw insulation, lighting up a dark garden landscape with bright green tips. Buckets full of tip-up’s...
#D-STRONG!!!!
this week fish wrap is #D-STRONG in my life fishing is an absolute it rises to the top it is what i do if i can't do i write but wait perspective check: fishing writing can wait this week we are #D-STRONG LETS ALL BE #D-STRONG fishing can wait LETS ALL BE...
another year down the river…so long 2015!
a solid #fishwrap year in review in words & pictures
Protecting RI Brook Trout
To stock or not to stock. Some love hatchery trout, others say seeding wild rivers with invasive fish is wrong. Where are you on this debate? This Fish Wrap helps unwind some of the many questions surrounding the stocking of invasive species just so some can go fishing.
A Deeper Look at Brook Trout
This is the second in a three part deep look on a proposal by Protect Rhode Island Brook Trout To help restore the Upper Wood River’s overall health and population of native fishes, Protect Rhode Island Brook Trout has proposed an experimental 5 year plan which...
Four Wise Men Protecting Brook Trout
Four Wise Men Protecting Brook Trout are determined to get the State of RI to listen to thier collective knowledge in the Upper Wood River Watershed and how they feel it needs protection. So far, the state is not listening.
jamestown’s marine one, 4 months late
for some unknown indescribable confluence of causes, this important story, which originally ran back in August, never made it to this website, has been erased from all my backups, save one, and is without an entire roll of pictures. nonetheless, it was a look at a...
Fishing, Faith and Being Muslim in a Changing World
Fishing, Faith and Being Muslim in a Changing World is about understanding differences and respect for our shared worlds. Fish and Faith. A recent anti-Muslim Facebook rant made the baseless case that Islam is out of line with American values largely due to their religious devotion yet ignored our great country’s foundation of religious tolerance. Isn’t that why we came here in the first place, back when cod were gathered by the baskets dipped from ship’s gunwales? Meet
“It’s not hard to smoke a fish” or “How clams can make you happy all winter…”
hot on the heels of winter, it's time to put up fish for sold nights!
6 deer to go, Lyme disease all around and a true Ace-1
It’s the wind, I would guess. Wind is just one element of what makes Block Island a special place, swept with strong winds most every day over rolling hills, kettle ponds and hundreds of acres of brush. In much of the brush, briars, Russian olives and bayberry are...
Allen Hall has passed
“Pay attention” Mr.Hall told me, looking past my head to see the television. “For Christ’s sake, boy,” he muttered not really under his breath, pretty much disgusted. “Oh, don’t you listen to him," Mrs.Hall smiled. She was always smiling, even while he spliced old...
Important chit-chat from Bill Beaudry, you must be this tall and cocky pheasants.
Funny how some fishermen will strike up a conversation when you walk up to a dock or boat ramp while others will look away. Just two minutes of chat, kicking small stones and staring out at rippled waters from a sandy shoreline can prepare you for your next few...
howard reed has had enough and that’s a damned shame
A new Penn Spinfisher V spinning reel lists for about $180 at a tackle store but Amazon will send you one for $130, no tax, free shipping. You’d be a fool to pass up that offer, right? “Are you going to get Amazon to spool that for you?” asked Howard Reed at...