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He was the best I ever saw when it came to fishing for everything. He fished mostly freshwater in the early going. It was generally largemouth bass and trout. He loved plugging the local ponds and lakes for largemouths, and he loved fly fishing for trout with flies he tied himself. He later taught my brothers and me how to tie, and we would frequently spend winter evenings at the kitchen table tying flies. Around the 1960's he began hearing about the great saltwater fishing for striped bass. This piqued his curiosity, and we all began saltwater fishing which would lead to chasing stripers, blues, mackerel and squeteague. It was a chore getting down to the oceanfront in those days with no rt. 95 to guide our way. So, like many others who fished in those days, he looked to getting a camper so we could fish and stay down there on weekends. No one had the fancy campers like you see today. He bought himself a 1950 bread truck and built the inside with beds, a small kitchen and bunks for storage. Our water came from a beer barrel mounted on the roof! He named the camper after my mother and called it "The Connie". For almost a decade, two adults, three kids and a dog would crowd into the camper and head to the oceanfront to fish just about every weekend.
My father loved the Cape and we began fishing in the spring for trout and smallmouth bass with the fly rods. We later branched out and started exploring some of the outflows for sea run brown trout. We had decent success catching those too.
As he got older, my father tended to fish nearby in Narragansett Bay and along the RI oceanfront. We fished some great squeteague runs in the Bay, epic bluefish years and great striper blitzes. We bought a boat together, a Boston Whaler, which the whole family fished from for years. He fished with the fly rod more and more in his old age as he really enjoyed the experience.
I was with him the last day of his life and I was the last to talk to him. Like every time I had seen him recently in the hospital, he asked how was mom doing, how are the kids (his grandsons) are doing , and how was the fishing. He passed three hours later.
He lived a great life, and we have fishing memories that will last forever.
This Fishing Report was submitted on 6/11/2023 8:42:00 PM by Seamus and last updated on 6/13/2023 8:45:23 AM.
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