by Todd Corayer | Mar 28, 2015 | Fresh Water Fishing, Wild and Scenic Rivers
Stand Up To Dams is a walk through local dams choking on sediment, impeding waters, choking and ending river herring migrations. Read how some dams, even ones we loved back in the day, are now useless reminders of Colonial progress with little regard for fishes or fishers.
by Todd Corayer | Mar 15, 2015 | Rhode Island Waterways
There is a lot happening in preparation for spring and her greatest day: the opening of trout season. 6 am on the second Saturday in April marks the beginning of everything we have waited for this winter, while we shoveled, watched the plow truck drive by and then...
by Todd Corayer | Mar 6, 2015 | Block Island, Striped Bass Fishing
Hopefully by now, fishermen who target striped bass or any other local species will have sent an email to the RIDEM about proposed regulations for this year’s striper season. We have an amazing and rare opportunity to get out ahead of a fishery in trouble, trouble...
by Todd Corayer | Feb 27, 2015 | Fresh Water Fishing
After a several long, strong snow storms, our roads are again blotched black and dirty, roads are getting narrow, salt cakes everything. For those well-traveled paths, this is a ragged time of year. As snows continue to cycle through our region, legions of mailboxes...
by Todd Corayer | Feb 20, 2015 | Fresh Water Fishing, Ice Fishing, Striped Bass Fishing
A thousand clear acres of wind have been tearing though the seams and zippers of ice fisherman on South Kingstown’s Worden Pond. Huddled atop fast freezing holes, cold, still, heads down, parkas stuffed with fleece until they look like sausages, they have braved that...
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...
