Salt Ponds and Cinder Worms
Salt ponds and cinder worms are a great pair, as long as you pack plenty of patience in your fly box of tricks and patterns. Patience man, you need to be patient to catch stripers in a cinder worm circus. We offer you the goods on worms and a few tips on how to fool stripers gorging on them.
Resilience will save some fishermen just as the Fish Whisperer passes
This week we see the power of resilience as local commercial fishermen draw on their strengths to prepare for a solid future, then say goodbye to the Fish Whisperer whose passing came far too soon. Rodman Sykes stirred his giant pot of clam chowder as local fishermen...A fisherman’s social, a bucket of eels & a sharp hook in the eye
It only took a few degrees of separation from cold and rain to warm up the shoreline and welcome back stripers. Squid have slowly appeared in the lower bay followed by a few tautog. From Jerusalem’s West Wall to the beaches of Jamestown and Newport, schoolies...Freshwater bite is hot, pogies & people hit the beaches
Spring is getting busy on the lakes, rivers and rock walls. In the mist of all the rain and wind, Spring is for fishing and between the hot largemouth bite, emerging salt ponds stripers and shad trees ready to pop, a few more warm days and this state will be awash in...“A season’s first trout with a hundred pigeons to fight poaching”
Amazing. Everybody waits. Ladies and gentlemen, crouched forward on cold seats, crowded into low sided skiffs, pacing around barely green shorelines. Everybody waits. A few without their glasses look to those young enough to read a watch in the dusky light of early...“Ryan Dubay & the Yak Patrol Kayak Clash
Ryan Dubay is once again hosting his Yak Patrol Kayak Clash in Fairhaven, Mass. to benefit the Jimmy Fund. Kayak fishing’s popularity has exploded in recent years so naturally, tournaments have been created in the spirit of competition, comradery and prizes....Trout Season Starts at With Tommy Thompson and The Perryville Trout Hatchery
For April’s second Saturday, we have planned and waited, packed and repacked. Cursed for pre-dawn shivers in frigid canoes or poorly chosen float tubes, loved for an inevitable warm rising sun, remembered for simple pleasures of reopening tackle boxes, fly cases and rod tubes, Rhode Island’s official opening of trout season means more than just wetting a line.