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...

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.

The fishing along the RI oceanfront continues to be poor. Those abundant schoolies along with the bait we had earlier in the month have moved on. Now it's a matter of waiting to see if another bunch of fish moves through. Yesterday was the first time in a long long time that I got totally skunked.  Not a fish not a hit and saw nothing! I fished a...

Here are just a couple of Frank's books. He was a prolific big striper hunter writer and lecturer. He had a profound affect on surf  fishing for striped bass that carries on to this day. It is with sadness that I report the passing of Frank Daignault a legend and pioneer of saltwater surf fishing.   Frank was someone who many consider the “Godfa...