by Todd Corayer | Jul 25, 2014 | Block Island, Striped Bass Fishing
It’s good to be in a good groove and it’s good to know there are lots of fish around, even if they are not really around you. The big bass we pined for all spring and early summer apparently passed on hanging around our beaches and for the most part, went directly to...
by Todd Corayer | Jul 18, 2014 | Award Winning Articles, Salt Water Fishing, Striped Bass Fishing
In the Fifties and Sixties, access to the beach for fishing and relaxing was far easier compared to these modern times. Many fishermen who wanted to cast through long stretches of shoreline for bass would drive there and spend a few days hunting for bass and blues, living out of their vehicles. They needed to be resourceful, and boy were they.
by Todd Corayer | Jul 11, 2014 | Fresh Water Fishing, Striped Bass Fishing
Some waters have warmed and some fishing has cooled. Stripers have started their expected travels from the upper reaches of Narragansett Bay towards Newport, South County and Block Island. There are still fluke in plenty of regular spots and the sea bass season has so...
by Todd Corayer | Jul 4, 2014 | Block Island, Striped Bass Fishing
Our Governor Chafe, that’s with one F, was in town Friday last, declaring squid to be our official dinner starter and to cut the cheesy blue ribbon at the new Galilee boat ramp. For starters, plenty are the questions and insufficient is the page space, to...
by Todd Corayer | Jun 27, 2014 | Block Island, Striped Bass Fishing
Block Island is awash in south side weed, sand eels, wandering tourists and a decent crop of honeysuckle a few weeks out. Wild roses have blossomed bright in outside white with blackberries soon to follow. Fluke are thick from the upper bay to the center wall to Pots...
by Todd Corayer | Jun 20, 2014 | Striped Bass Fishing
Fish have us surrounded. There are fluke to the south and east, blue dogs in the dump, pogeys at the mouth, bass on the ledge, largemouth on their beds and blues all around. If you have any personal days left, this is the time to cash them in. If you have any sick...
by Todd Corayer | Jun 13, 2014 | Block Island, Striped Bass Fishing
DAD “Ok Honey, we are headed out for the lake. Everything is packed and ready to go, see you in a week.” MOM “Ok Dear. Be safe. See you in twenty minutes.” It’s painful, but sometimes that’s the way things go when we get up to go. Properly packing for a fishing trip...
by Todd Corayer | May 30, 2014 | Striped Bass Fishing
The holiday weekend has brought warming waters and strong catches of stripers fluke and even a few blues. Freshwater ponds are giving up some heavy largemouth as they are defending their new beds. Coastal air is tinged with clam cake essence, parking spots are...
by Todd Corayer | May 23, 2014 | Striped Bass Fishing
Either drifting green crabs beneath a warm sun or casting the shoreline under the slim light of a waning crescent moon, all those magical colors of spring are really intensifying now. Fishing can often be best in those forty-five minute windows around the sun and...
by Todd Corayer | May 16, 2014 | Fresh Water Fishing
These weeks of spring have a very special early morning light. It shines for just a few minutes for just a few weeks and then it’s different. Not better nor worse, just different. We wait so anxiously for summer and those long days but her light is fixed for months....
