by Todd Corayer | May 25, 2017 | Block Island, New England Tackle Shops, Striped Bass Fishing
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse meets with RI commercial fishermen to better understand catches and the science of data harvesting on open seas.
by Todd Corayer | May 21, 2017 | Fishery Policy & Rules, Recreation Public Access
Narragansett Bay is teeming with stripers. It’s easy to access them from beaches, breakwalls and kayaks, from river mouths to the upper Bay and the Taunton River. Our CRMC provides a wonderful, interactive map of public access spots, which you can find at...
by Todd Corayer | May 13, 2017 | Striped Bass Fishing
This is the time. Bucktails, teaser flies, Cocahoe minnows. Seven foot medium weight rods for kayaks in salt ponds, ten foot surf rods for long beach casts. Buckies, pogies, silversides. D.O.A. jerkbaits, topwater schoolie action and everything tipped with squid....
by Todd Corayer | May 7, 2017 | Fishery Policy & Rules, Recreation Public Access
RI DEM will hold public hearing on draft regulations for recreational fishing, hunting, falconry and parks regulations on the following two dates Monday, May 8, 5:30 p.m. at DEM Headquarters | Room 300 235 Promenade Street Providence, Rhode Island and then...
by Todd Corayer | May 5, 2017 | Fluke Fishing
If there’s water involved, Bill McCusker is willing to get wet. He’s a tireless volunteer and advocate, a guy who collects water samples for URI’s Watershed Watch, has happily volunteered countless hours to the Wood Pawcatuck Watershed Association, dragged hoses and...
by Todd Corayer | Apr 28, 2017 | Striped Bass Fishing
For many fishermen, once the opening of trout season has passed, it’s all about Galilee, Jerusalem and wailing the west wall. That ragged run of blocks and rocks is known for being one of the earliest spots to find a new season’s first stripers. Word races through...
by Todd Corayer | Apr 27, 2017 | Fresh Water Fishing, Trout Fishing
The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management has announced a Free Fishing Weekend for Saturday, May 6 – Sunday, May 7. Anglers are invited to fish without a fishing license or trout conservation stamp in the state’s freshwater streams, rivers, ponds...
by Todd Corayer | Apr 26, 2017 | Fresh Water Fishing
Cold water, piles of trash bags, new flies, cold beer, stripers with lice and if you’re lucky, those mighty anadromous heros of Spring, river herring. So that was Earth Day weekend, 2017. Fisherman Matt Toker a set up a Facebook page called 401 Fishing and has been...
by Todd Corayer | Apr 25, 2017 | Fresh Water Fishing, skeet shooting
Each Spring, along with the return of ospreys and Florida license plates, comes the disappearance of public access signs. Surely it pays to do your homework before you double click the alarm and push through bayberries and bull briers to launch your new kayak. When...
by Todd Corayer | Apr 17, 2017 | Fresh Water Fishing
This post originally appeared in the Southern RI Newspapers. Cold water, piles of trash bags, new flies, cold beer, stripers with lice and if you’re lucky, those mighty anadromous heros of Spring, river herring. So that’s Earth Day weekend, 2017. Fisherman Matt Toker...
