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.
Tie up your fly, order a striper plate and set your winter table
With my arrival delayed by an AWOL windshield wiper in a hard southwesterly rain storm, I was the last to enter a room full of fly tyers. Nobody looked up, save for Kimberly Sullivan, the always smiling Principal Biologist for RIDEM and their Aquatic Resource...
Poaching Needs a Judge Who Respects Fish and Fishermen
How long will greed, disrespect for our environment, and blatant, planned ignorance of not just our laws but of the respect they require, meet with just a small fine and two-line notice in a small town paper?
This most recent arrest is a daily news reminder that our system isn’t operating to its potential. So here are my suggested solutions for what to do with poachers in Rhode Island.
It’s officially an unofficial win for the Narrow River
This story was somehow lost in the mix and should have been posted a few weeks ago. It happens… The First Annual Narrow River Kayak Multi-Species Fishing Tournament went off without a hitch last weekend and when all the numbers were tallied, the river came in...Largemouth, ducks, a Go-Devil & chicken soup. Hell yeah, that’s Fall in RI
The Rhode Island Kayak Bassin’ tournament season has wrapped up for 2018. Administrators Matt Tetreault and RJ Alves successfully created a few months of fun for freshwater fishermen, taking anglers to some of this state’s most beautiful water bodies and reminding us...
