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Great Lakes Outdoor Writers 2020 Award Winner, Fish Wrap Writer

Is There Writing On The Stone Wall for Stripers?

After fishing on the rocks for two keeper stripers a night, we would lean on one tailgate, take two cold cans of beer from any icy remains in a soft cooler then walk to one long, sagging, stubborn stone wall. Through a sweet harmony of crickets and cicadas, we faced a farmer's field of tall grasses and stray sunflowers, thick and healthy. We leaned on stones wet, slick from an evening’s dew, taking in long breaths of damp earth, breathing out pure salt air. With wrinkled palms, innocently we wiped our hands along green moss, unconsciously drawing patterns on slow-growing velvet beards on glacial fieldstones.

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Poaching Needs a Judge Who Respects Fish and Fishermen

How long will greed, disrespect for our environment, and blatant, planned ignorance of not just our laws but of the respect they require, meet with just a small fine and two-line notice in a small town paper?
This most recent arrest is a daily news reminder that our system isn’t operating to its potential. So here are my suggested solutions for what to do with poachers in Rhode Island.

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Block Island Winter Peace

Block Island Winter Peace

Block Island winter peace is something we should all discover. In a loud world of distractions, there remain a few small corners and wide stretches where we can again enjoy the quiet of years past. The Island has that, if you know where to look for winter, no one and Block Island.

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Protecting RI Brook Trout

“When you're finished changing, you're finished”, Benjamin Franklin gave us. Changing the status of the Upper Wood River, even temporarily,...

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A Deeper Look at Brook Trout

This is the second in a three part series on a proposal by Protect Rhode Island Brook Trout. To help restore the Upper Wood River’s overall...

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New England Outdoors Writing Association 3rd place

The Way We Were and A Table Talk Van

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.

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