Ramping up, lighting up and meeting Aaron Flynn
RIDEM has completed boat ramp repairs at Charlestown’s Watchaug Pond and South Kingstown’s Indian Lake. Both projects improve access, parking and safety for small boats, kayaks and canoes with twelve foot wide concrete ramps and six foot by twenty-foot floating wooden...
Some Salt Pond Words
Some salt pond words is a slow walk through a peaceful fishing spot and might be just what we need in a busy world.
Unicorns, rainbows and a trip to The Preserve
Elisa Conti Cahill awards a young angler a new rod and reel The Rhode Island Saltwater Anglers Association once again made a fine June afternoon extra special with another successful Kids Free Fishing Derby. 60 young fishermen and women kids from aged six to fourteen...Kayak fishermen help pay off a personal debt to The Jimmy Fund
It takes a lot of work to keep things simple. It was barely 3 a.m. when Ryan Dubay pulled into the deeply rutted West Island Town Beach parking lot in Fairhaven, Ma. His headlights turned the heads of a dozen guys already milling around their trucks or lightly dozing inside cabs. Bed lights lights sliced […]
Large then larger bass and a salt pond’s reflection of time
Just now, we take a look back at a piece written for the Southern RI Newspaper family which, due to reasons real and uninteresting, was lost for a while. Time passes quickly in this digital age but I say taking a few minutes to read about good friends catching fish or...“If ever you are stranded in these parts…”, there is such thing as a free lunch
There are folks among us who believe, “There ain’t no such a thing as a free lunch” but for fishermen in the know, we know that ain’t so. Between Scott Travers and Jessica Pena with their DEM programs and Steve Medeiros with his relentlessly generous Rhode Island...
Salt Ponds and Cinder Worms
Salt ponds and cinder worms are a great pair, as long as you pack plenty of patience in your fly box of tricks and patterns. Patience man, you need to be patient to catch stripers in a cinder worm circus. We offer you the goods on worms and a few tips on how to fool stripers gorging on them.
