Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

It was a very good year for slot and above slot stripers from shore and kayak in Narragansett Bay. This season had its ups and downs. Striper fishing overall was very good for large fish slots and above but a lack of schoolies was evident.  Bluefish showed in good numbers with large fish fairly plentiful in the first half of the season. Albies w...

Here's a November schoolie that hit my NLBN paddle tails. It was a  subpar November with schoolies in short supply. November is in the books and it was NOT memorable.  There was a time just a short while ago when November shore fishing was lights out. I remember that surf casters would simply sit on a lawn chair on any of those south shore beach...

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Most of the stripers lately have been schoolies under 20 inches. Bucktail jigs and 3 inch NLBN paddle tails have been the hot lures. Normally I don't fish the oceanfront much after Thanksgiving but I have had such good success lately that I am still fishing. While most of the fish of late November have been smaller schoolies (fish we have not se...

It's been red hot fishing in the last four days for me. The fish are all sizes from 15 inches to 40 inches! You never know what's going to happen in this game. I had been having a fair to poor November like everyone else and I was just about ready to give it up when suddenly my luck turned around. The last 4 days/nights have been super good for...

Some of us live it every day!

You know the fishing must be poor when there is not a single fisherman off Charlestown Breachway right before dark!

This should be the peak of the fall fishing.  Instead we are looking at a November lull that has brought only fair to poor striper fishing along much of the oceanfront these first seven days of November.  I've done a lot of driving around in November looking for fish and I have seen and caught very little- way off compared to other years.  In the...

A big pile of mackerel at dark saved the day which had been disappointing. The bait is around but the stripers are in short supply as November gets off to a slow start. Today was a strange day.  In fact it has been a strange week that brought big numbers of small bait to the shore along with birds diving.  But stripers have been in short supply....

And I found big numbers of fish today. They are not in all the locations along the south shore but with a little looking you might just find a blitz underway.  The fish are really on the move!

The bait was small today and the stripers were plentiful and fussy. It was a perfect set-up for a 3 inch NLBN (No Live Bait Needed) paddle tail.  And it worked like a charm!

I had a frustrating day of it yesterday.  For hours I watched masses of birds diving onto bait as predators attacked from below (see video below).  This was happening in multiple spots. And it was all happening out of casting range. This is a pattern that I've seen very often this fall.  A lot of the bait and migrating stripers are tracking well...

Yesterday's rainbow was a stunner. Unfortunately there was no pot of gold and no fish at the end of the rainbow!

The future of our striped bass fishery took a big hit in the recent release of the 2023 Young of the Year survey in Chesapeake Bay.  Stripers spawn in the Chesapeake and this index is a measure of the the spawning success or failure.  This year's index was an abysmal 1.0 one of the worst spawning years ever (it was.89 in 2012). This comes on the...

The beachfront was running hot today with lots of slot fish in a mid day blitz.  I have been chasing stripers up and down beaches for the last three days. Today I set out on a long walk in search of them.  I saw a few birds working in the distance about a quarter mile from where I was so I went down the shore to investigate. As I got to the spot w...

It was a bonanza of slots tonight in the darkness. Overall it was a pretty dead day today in the daylight along the oceanfront.  But there was some bait around and I have been making an effort in the last couple of weeks to fish later at night.  So I decided that I would stick it out tonight well after dark. It paid off. As it got pitch dark I n...

Here's a slot fish from yesterday  coming to the kayak. It was caught  in the Bay. Everybody was complaining about that persistent northeast wind in late September except us surf fishermen.  When we had the northeast wind  from mid to late September the striper fishing was lights out.  It has cleared in the last week with some beautiful weather...

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...

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...