by Todd Corayer | Feb 20, 2015 | Fresh Water Fishing, Ice Fishing
Keeping shiners in the bathtub can put a quiet but significant strain on a relationship. While logical for the average New England ice fisherman, some significant others apparently find such live storage to be unusual, unnecessary and kind of gross. The bucket which...
by Todd Corayer | Feb 8, 2015 | Fresh Water Fishing, Ice Fishing
Before the rains winds and big snows rolled in, local ice had been clear and smooth, like rolled steel, like the finest glass. In the old days, young kids old enough to know better would have spun old style straight body pickup’s in wicked fun circles all around our...
by Todd Corayer | Jan 8, 2015 | Salt Water Fishing, Uncategorized
To look back at the second half of 2014, we revisit some people, spirits and few criminals who passed through this column. Revisiting the words with images of a year now past has made me realize how fortunate we all are to be where we are, and know that someone will...
by Todd Corayer | Jan 8, 2015 | Block Island, Fresh Water Fishing, Ice Fishing, Striped Bass Fishing
thank you all for such a wonderful first year of fish and words… Quite a year to be a fisherman, it was. This was the first year for Fish Wrap and as is often a writer’s tradition, a few caps were twisted off during a few quiet hours of reflection. This...
by Todd Corayer | Dec 24, 2014 | Striped Bass Fishing
Sunday brings us the winter solstice, significant in that it brings the years shortest day and conversely, its longest night. After this sunrise, our amount of day light slowly increases and we get to start back into gearing up for spring fishing. Since pulling...
by Todd Corayer | Dec 12, 2014 | Rhode Island Waterways
Narragansett Dock Works has lowered an excavator onto the rocky tow of the Main Street dam in Wakefield. This is the first step in the process to reconstruct the Denil-style fish ladder system, originally built it the early 1970’s. The reconstruction will incorporate...
by Todd Corayer | Dec 9, 2014 | Fresh Water Fishing, Ice Fishing
A freezing cold November day is nature’s way of reminding us that ice fishing season is almost here. It’s time to get out the buckets, tip-ups, hand warmers, augers, and camo coolie cups. Ice fishing in South County is a peaceful experience, one that gets us out of...
by Todd Corayer | Nov 28, 2014 | Block Island
Back in the day, John Swienton would turn the F/V Bonnie S north out of Block Island’s Old Harbor, then steam less than twenty minutes at eight knots to find his mark off Clay Head. Refilling his Thermos cup, he watched a high cliff line for one green mansard...
by Todd Corayer | Nov 20, 2014 | Fresh Water Fishing
Construction at two fish ladders on the Saugatucket River has begun at last. In Peacedale, Narragansett Dock Works has started changing the sluiceway floor height and the pitch in the lift system, which will reduce the occasionally volatile flow of water. As the...
by Todd Corayer | Nov 16, 2014 | Striped Bass Fishing
Starting January 1, 2015, necessary changes to the recreational and commercial striper fishery will begin. Coastal recreational anglers will be limited to a bag limit of one striped bass per day with a minimum size of twenty-eight inches. While the Atlantic States...
