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.
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.
