by Todd Corayer | May 12, 2018 | Fresh Water Fishing, Striped Bass Fishing
Spring is getting busy on the lakes, rivers and rock walls. In the mist of all the rain and wind, Spring is for fishing and between the hot largemouth bite, emerging salt ponds stripers and shad trees ready to pop, a few more warm days and this state will be awash in...
by Todd Corayer | May 10, 2018 | Fresh Water Fishing
Amazing. Everybody waits. Ladies and gentlemen, crouched forward on cold seats, crowded into low sided skiffs, pacing around barely green shorelines. Everybody waits. A few without their glasses look to those young enough to read a watch in the dusky light of early...
by Todd Corayer | May 6, 2018 | Black Sea Bass Fishing, Block Island, Fluke Fishing
Ryan Dubay is once again hosting his Yak Patrol Kayak Clash in Fairhaven, Mass. to benefit the Jimmy Fund. Kayak fishing’s popularity has exploded in recent years so naturally, tournaments have been created in the spirit of competition, comradery and prizes....
by Todd Corayer | Apr 25, 2018 | Fresh Water Fishing, Trout Fishing
For April’s second Saturday, we have planned and waited, packed and repacked. Cursed for pre-dawn shivers in frigid canoes or poorly chosen float tubes, loved for an inevitable warm rising sun, remembered for simple pleasures of reopening tackle boxes, fly cases and rod tubes, Rhode Island’s official opening of trout season means more than just wetting a line.
by Todd Corayer | Apr 17, 2018 | Fresh Water Fishing
Thank you. Thank you to my readers, my critics, my family who reads my column about once a year, at most, and the editors who still open my emails. I appreciate all of you. Thank you to everyone who “likes” and “shares” and sticks on one of...
by Todd Corayer | Apr 15, 2018 | Fresh Water Fishing, Striped Bass Fishing
“Whenever I can bear that damned cold weather,” said the fishermen. Whitecaps frosted a small town pond tucked away in plain sight. Only one person was out there fishing through the cold and wind. March gripped winter tightly as the fisherman worked hard for his...
by Todd Corayer | Apr 5, 2018 | Fresh Water Fishing, Striped Bass Fishing
RJ Alves and Matt Tetrault are full steam ahead with their new RI Kayak Bassin’ group and a full calendar of fishing tournaments. The first event at South Kingstown’s Worden Pond is already full, which shows you how much love there is for freshwater fishing and how...
by Todd Corayer | Apr 2, 2018 | American Saltwater Guides Association, Fresh Water Fishing, New England Fishing Clubs
The 2018 New England Saltwater Fishing Show was another major success. The annual three-day event drew around 15,000 men, women and children to see the biggest names in rods, reels, boats, lures, charter captains and the newest fashions. Produced by the 7,500 member...
by Todd Corayer | Mar 25, 2018 | Fresh Water Fishing, Striped Bass Fishing, Trout Fishing
Spring. Spring. The very word brings a smile to even the stodgiest of swampers. Yes, I made up that word. Spring is positive, it’s bright, it’s pleasing, it’s new hope for an end to slumping wood piles, dirty roads and thread bare back woods. Spring brings work, with...
by Todd Corayer | Mar 18, 2018 | Fluke Fishing, Fresh Water Fishing, Striped Bass Fishing, Trout Fishing
Spring is so close. Colors are changing, pale green buds are patiently peeking out from riverbank maples. Tucked under bony rhododendron skeletons, tiny yellowed shoots emerging from wet leaves missed by fall’s rake tell us everything about the real calendar. River...
