This hefty schoolie was landed on the float and jig a great choice in rough water.  There are good numbers of  stripers around from hefty schoolies to slot size fish. along the oceanfront.  It has been rough I mean REALLY rough along the oceanfront in the last couple of days. I like fishing rough white water but this was a bit much in a number of...

My biggest fish of the year so far came from freshwater.  This behemoth carp weighed 38 lbs. 12 oz.  It would have smashed the official state record by OVER 6 lbs. I chose to  release it! It's been a good (though not great) first third of the striper season. No question there are fewer big ones around than the last couple of years.  There are al...

A large bucktail jig spiced with a pink Fat Cow jig strip has been  my best producer in the last week.  I'm back to fishing mostly from shore in the last week.  That persistent northeast/east wind has really kicked up the oceanfront. I've always said that rougher is better than calm water and I will say that the fishing has been good this week.  F...

The boys and I did our annual Father's Day Fishing Outing today.  Last year we did this for the first time out in the kayaks in Narragansett Bay.  This year we got a lot more fancy. Matt got a new boat a Grady White 18 footer and we decided to take it out into Buzzards Bay for a guy's day on the boat. There was myself and my sons Jon Matt and Ben...

Sea run brown trout on the fly rod!  It is with sadness that I report the passing of my father Ralph Pickering at the age of 93.  I know many of my readers knew him as we fished together for decades.  In fact everything I know about fishing I attribute to him teaching me.  From the days of being a toddler to retirement days I fished just about eve...

On Cape Cod June can be an awesome time for shore and boat anglers alike in both fresh and saltwater. We have LOTS of reports from many different areas and varying species being caught. So let’s get to it! SALTWATER We’ll start with the delicious very fun to catch and gorgeously colored Black Sea Bass. Sports Port’s always friendly positive and su...

The hot striper fishing from the kayak  continues with good numbers again today. Most of today's fish were hefty schoolies and all were caught on an unweighted Zoom fluke twitched on top.

I've got my hand in the jaw of a slot  striper that took my Jumpin' Minnow fished from the kayak. Kayak fishing for stripers has been red hot for me  this week.  The last three days have been super good for me from the kayak.  I got into an area that was loaded with good size peanut bunker (4 to 5 inches). and the stripers found them.  I've seen d...

They just don't get much bigger than this alligator blue landed  from the kayak today. You have to look around to find them.  Most likely they are around schools of large bait. The epic action for monster bluefish just continues in Narragansett Bay.  The last two evenings I caught them from the shore.  Today I got them from the kayak.  Wherever...

Not a tarpon but certainly fights like one! The hard fighting blues have put on a show in recent weeks!

I had to pinch myself when I woke up Saturday of Memorial Day weekend to a gorgeous sunny day! I can’t recall the last time we had such nice weather to kick off our summer season. The weather isn’t the only positive news on this gorgeous sand bar called Cape Cod. The fishing this Spring has been off to an epic start. The bait has been plentiful wi...

They have been huge and they have been plentiful.  In the last week I have experienced some of the very best bluefish action I have ever encountered.  These blues are some of the biggest I have ever seen with good numbers of fish in the 15 to 20 lb. range.  Even the smaller ones are over 10 lbs. There are also a lot of them.  Except for a couple o...

Big blues are showing up in both the Bay and along the oceanfront. They are generally where the bait is. Memorial Day weekend is almost here and I suspect a lot of fishermen will be out and about in this beautiful spring weather. I've been out every evening in the past ten days.  I've fished from shore as well as the kayak and the results are th...

If you are wondering if the Striped Bass charter season in RI is heating up wonder no more! We are hitting striped bass like we have not in years! The post What a start to the 2023 Striped Bass fishing season in RI! appeared first on Aces Wild Charters.

It was another good outing fishing from the kayak. This slot fish fell for a Super  Fluke twitched on top

It was good numbers of hefty schoolies and small slots from the  kayak this evening.  The hot lure was an unweighted Zoom fluke  twitched on top. I've been out in the kayak several times in the last week. Like shore fishing I've found good numbers of stripers in the Bay while fishing from the yak. Tonight I found a good bunch of them in some cal...

The NLBN paddle tails were hot lures in the early going last year. For the next month it will be a waiting game until we see the first migrating stripers arrive here in RI. It's been a warm winter but that does not necessarily translate into an early season. Stripers are just like migrating birds- they come north at just about the same time ever...

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...