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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migration information 5/9/2014
Seventy-five casts to your sweet spot should tell you all you need to know: either you’ve hit the lottery or you’re working in a desert. That’s one successful local angler’s theory about striper fishing this time of year and there’s definitely something to it....
golden trout, silver spring, salmon colors all around-narragansett times, 5/2/2014
It’s all about access now. Hopefully, everything needing to be done has been done because ocean and river temperatures are climbing, ever so slowly. Chris Littlefield on Block Island noticed a 5 degree uptick in seawater temperatures around the island in a week,...
did someone say whippoorwill?-narragansett times, 4/25/2014
Spring came home and kicked winter out but apparently never locked the door. Cold rain and sleet have kept our water temperatures low, postponed the arrival of our precious striped bass and given lots of us a good case of the shrugs. Largemouth’s are being landed,...
It’s Opening Day, Baby!
A look back at Fish Wrap's first coverage of Opening Day. We've come a long way, baby
courtesy& story telling-narragansett times, 4/11/2014
Apparently three times is the most a person should use the dishwasher to clean their tackle boxes. More times than that brings only outside voices and wagging fingers. We do have some excuse for our insensitivity or general sense of distraction this week: our focus...
stocking up on trout & thoughts-narragansett times, 4/4/2014
Good fishermen can read a pile of bait under a few circling gannets at four hundred yards but can’t read a note about cleaning the gutters even when left on their favorite Duck Dynasty coffee cup. Right now that is very true because we are two weeks from opening...
Fish Wrap Week One
Fish Wrap Week One. Here's where it all begins. Week one of a new outdoors column with a new way of seeing people and water. Here we go!
brook trout alewives and damned dams-narragansett times,3/21/2014
March is a lovely month. Spring breezes stir the ocean, energize the daffodils and rally the laundry to dance on our clotheslines. Bursting with changes, March is all about a reawakening of our senses and our waters, for fishermen two things deeply intertwined....
first week with the narragansett times 3/14/14
Good-bye ice, hello crocuses! At the tail end of a banner year for fishable ice, day and night soon find their balance so we can return to our canoes kayaks and outboards. March for most is just a muddy gateway month, a muted grey watercolor of salted roads edged...