wickford harbor & weakfish-narragansett times, 5/23/2014
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...seeing red in a school of blues-narragansett times, 5/16/2014
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....migration information 5/9/2014
Seventy-five casts to your sweet spot should tell you all you need to know: either you’ve hit the lottery or you’re working in a desert. That’s one successful local angler’s theory about striper fishing this time of year and there’s definitely something to it. After...golden trout, silver spring, salmon colors all around-narragansett times, 5/2/2014
It’s all about access now. Hopefully, everything needing to be done has been done because ocean and river temperatures are climbing, ever so slowly. Chris Littlefield on Block Island noticed a 5 degree uptick in seawater temperatures around the island in a week, which...did someone say whippoorwill?-narragansett times, 4/25/2014
Spring came home and kicked winter out but apparently never locked the door. Cold rain and sleet have kept our water temperatures low, postponed the arrival of our precious striped bass and given lots of us a good case of the shrugs. Largemouth’s are being landed,...It’s Opening Day, Baby!
A look back at Fish Wrap’s first coverage of Opening Day. We’ve come a long way, baby
courtesy& story telling-narragansett times, 4/11/2014
Apparently three times is the most a person should use the dishwasher to clean their tackle boxes. More times than that brings only outside voices and wagging fingers. We do have some excuse for our insensitivity or general sense of distraction this week: our focus is...stocking up on trout & thoughts-narragansett times, 4/4/2014
Good fishermen can read a pile of bait under a few circling gannets at four hundred yards but can’t read a note about cleaning the gutters even when left on their favorite Duck Dynasty coffee cup. Right now that is very true because we are two weeks from opening...Fish Wrap Week One
Fish Wrap Week One. Here’s where it all begins. Week one of a new outdoors column with a new way of seeing people and water. Here we go!
