2018 goes out with a splash
This week we turn the boat around for a second look at some characters and their greatest hits from 2018. What fun. One of the founders of RI Kayak Bassin’, RJ Alves is a force, to say the least. And it’s all positive. His highlight was the, “First RIKB tourney: saved...OMG, we're Fish Wrapping up 2018
This week we’re turning the ship around to face a few of you, to hear what made 2018 special or maybe fantastic. Some folks landed the trout they dreamed of, some couldn’t get their math straight, some were just happy to get out and fish with their friends. In no...It serves us right to suffer if we don’t comment now
RI DEM held a very informative Marine Fisheries Informational Workshop this past Tuesday. I had the John Lee Hooker song, “Serves Me Right To Suffer” stuck in my head. Workshops are designed to offer us information about particular sectors, seasons, rules or proposals...The ritual of a new year's warm water baptism
It’s a cold weather, warm water baptism. Cleaning rods and reels, replacing hooks and snaps, swivels and rings is a ritual indeed but there’s more to it than trebles and pliers. Cleaning takes time, something some have more of when it’s cold. It takes patience to dig...In with the old then out with the new old at the Surf Day Used Tackle Sale
Well, we’re big fans of the Narragansett Surfcasters fishing club so here’s a little more notice of their Surf Day Used Tackle Sale on February 9, 2019 You can rent a table to sell off some gear or just walk the isles to pick out some new stuff on a very...Bob Buscher & a few largemouth
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Volunteering is fine, a saddlebag full of bluegills is confusing
This week we deal with the recent past, the near future and the oddly confusing. TU volunteers giving up a Saturday to clean a road to preserve a river Members of Trout Unlimited’s Narragansett 225 chapter donated a recent Saturday to the State’s Adopt-A-Roadway...Notes from the couch with thanks for all you sportsmen and characters
Since getting off the couch was tricky on a recent holiday celebrating thankfulness and stuffing, it afforded me time to think. And thank. First of all, I’m thankful that I’m still here. Given my propensity for the occasional hoppy beverage and checking the “exercise”...
A Jerry Garcia Vice
A Jerry Garcia Vice is a curse, a blessing, a laugh, a shrug, a patient exercise in testing other people’s patience at a fly tying class.
