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...

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...

I landed this schoolie yesterday while fishing in some rough white water.  It hit a NLBN paddle tail fished off a float. It looks like the cold weather is here to stay.  And with it the striper fishing has really cooled off along the oceanfront.  Yes there are still some around but I get the sense that things are winding down with a lot less fis...