This Hopkins metal lure delivered yesterday in the wind and heavy surf. I was looking at a skunk yesterday.  I was fishing great water and rough conditions and I just knew there were fish around but I was not getting them. I was fishing mostly with my bucktail jig.  It was not working. I thought to myself maybe a longer cast in these rough condi...

I've got my thumb in the jaw of another good size slot that fell for a bucktail jig with a pink Fat Cow jig strip. Fishing has been read hot in the last week for me. For me this has been the best week of the year for saltwater fishing. I fished hard the last 5 days in a row and caught staggering numbers of stripers of all sizes from schoolies up...

Today's biggie was a brute of a fish- big head big girth and strong as an ox.  I landed a brute of a fish today. It was one of those old fashioned fish we used to catch 30 and 40 years ago.  It was at least 40 inches long with a  big head and a wide girth.  And it possessed some brute strength.   The fish took a two ounce homemade bucktail jig wit...

This slot fish one of many today took a large bucktail jig with a Fat Cow jig strip. It was the storm that wasn't. Today's surf was supposed to be dangerously high and super rough. It wasn't.  In fact by evening the ocean was flat as a pancake with a gentle northwesterly breeze. The water was clean with no sand in it along the places I fished to...

If you are even thinking about fishing anywhere along the oceanfront in the next few days forget it.  I went down today to try and get in one more day of fishing and it was impossible. I saw huge hurricane driven waves in the 8 to 15 foot range coming right over the East Center and West Walls around the Harbor of Refuge in Narragansett. Keep in m...

It's been a big week of fishing here in RI with everything from stripers to albies.  Today's blitz of stripers was one of the biggest I have seen in a long time.  The stripers were after massive schools of bay anchovies.

They say a picture says a thousand words but in this case the picture says just three words. THEY ARE IN! Albie Master Tim shows how it's done.

I'm about to grab a schoolie that was caught from the kayak this morning.  The fishing all over RI was hot as the weather today! The RI saltwater scene just took a dramatic turn for the better.  Along the oceanfront a lot of that bait that was off the shore has moved in possibly driven in by albies as the albie fishing has taken a big turn for t...

This is one of many stripers and blues that I landed today in the Bay from the kayak. They were  chasing down schools of peanut bunker. Last evening/night I hit the oceanfront in a place where the tide and conditions were just right.  The only thing missing was bait.  I made a lot of casts and came away with one striper a schoolie along with a k...

I landed this gator blue from the kayak this morning. Fishing in the Bay from boat or  kayak has been more consistent than the  oceanfront for stripers and blues. A lot will depend on if the water along the oceanfront clears up or not.  Those big hurricane waves that battered the coastline for the last several days have roiled up the water with sa...

Another beautiful bluefin tuna caught on Magic Fishing Charters and the guys had a blast.

Kayak fishing has been hot in the last few days with good numbers of slots and decent bluefish.  It's been real hot fishing the last couple of days for me from the kayak. I found big numbers of peanut bunker and sure enough big numbers of hungry stripers and blues were after them. It was chaos at times as fish were breaking all around me on and of...

This slot fish as well as most of  my fish in the last two days fell for a 2 oz. bucktail jig with a pink Fat Cow jig strip attached. The drought is over for me.  It's been a great two days/nights of striper fishing here  in RI. I fished multiple spots and found fish in all of them. I caught in the daylight and after dark. The common thread  in...

I landed this blue yesterday evening from shore on a Cocahoe.  They  outnumber the stripers right now. The striper fishing from shore continues to be poor along the oceanfront in RI. In fact the bluefish fishing is a bit better as they outnumber the stripers right now.  I think we got spoiled over the last two years that produced some of the bes...

Here is one of four stripers I landed today on the float and fly a great  choice when the bait is small and the bass are fussy.  In this case the fly was a homemade pink Deceiver. I've been out fishing four days/evenings in a row.  I've fished loads of places in RI along the oceanfront and elsewhere.  So I have a pretty good handle on what's goi...

We are back into slow fishing for stripers from  shore. There are some big bluefish around but you will need to make a lot of casts to catch one! This one took a bucktail jig spiced with a Fat Cow jig strip. A week ago I would have told you we were on our way to fall-like fishing along the RI oceanfront.  But as soon as it appeared it ended.  I...

The last couple of days have featured October blitzes in August along the RI oceanfront.  Massive amounts of bait in the form of peanut bunker and bay anchovies have lured in big schools of stripers and bluefish.  As I predicted a couple of posts ago the fishing would light up once the bait arrives which would be soon.  Regardless of how warm the...

The fishing along the oceanfront has taken a dramatic turn for the better. Since the hot weather departed big schools of bait bay anchovies and peanut bunker have streamed into the area.  This has attracted good numbers of stripers and blues as well as other predators. Yesterday I was watching a school of fish the size of a football field on the...

I've landed good numbers of stripers in the last three days from schoolies to slot size fish.   Ever so slowly the shore fishing is ticking upwards here in RI.  In the last three days I have caught more stripers than in the last three weeks. I've also seen turns working here and there on small bait (bay anchovies? maybe peanut tiny peanut bunker...

I've posted very little recently and that should tell you I am catching very little.  Still trying almost daily but not having a lot of success especially with bigger fish here in RI. This happens in the doldrums of mid summer.  The water is warm.  Water temperatures in the Bay hit 75 degrees this week.  Along the oceanfront it was reported to be...

The Yo-Zuri Hydro Pencil has been  the hot plug in the last week The good times just keep rolling for me with big numbers of slots on just about a nightly basis.  The hottest plug of the week has been a Yo-Zuri Hydro Pencil in a white color.  This looks like a Jumpin' Minnow on steroids.  It casts great into the wind and has a swagger on the ret...

Here's a slot that was landed this afternoon on a Slug go. Fishing for slots has been very good. The water is cold the air is cold and there should not be big numbers of fish around RI waters.  But they are here and the biggest surprise of the spring is the abundant numbers of slot fish along both the oceanfront and in the Bay.  I can't remember...