The egg float and a three inch NLBN paddle tail was the hot ticket tonight. This is a great combo when fussy  stripers are on small peanut bunker. I hit good numbers of fish again tonight in the northeast blow and rough water.  But tonight's action came with a different twist. I started off casting the egg float and the bucktail jig.  It brought...

The wooden egg float with a bucktail jig was the hot combo this evening in the rough water. I had a big day today in the howling wind rain and high surf.  While the monster waves were breaking as far out as I could see the stripers were at times right near my feet.  They were going nuts in the white water in close blasting away at big schools of...

I had two of the best back to back days that I've had in a long time. It was a bonanza of big stripers with nearly all the dozens of fish that I landed being slots and even overslots.  There's been a shortage of these larger fish all fall but not in the last two days.  I saw blitz after blitz of stripers smashing through massive schools of small...

We are in this pattern of a lot of small bait along the oceanfront.  I'm talking one to two inch bay anchovies.  Albies stripers and blues are feeding on them.  When they are on the small stuff they can get mighty picky and that's what's going on right now.   The larger bait peanut bunker is generally holed up in the backwaters and in the Bay.  I...

Here we go again with another round of hurricane waves just pounding the south shore coastline. I did fish yesterday in it and I must say it was quite dangerous and unfishable in some places. I finally found a place that was fishable and safe and ended up doing quite well fishing a float and jig in the white water. I landed a good number of slot...

This albie was landed on a float and pink Deceiver fly. I had a rare hat trick today in some hot fishing from shore. The hat trick in saltwater fishing happens if you can catch an albie a striper and a blue all in one day.  It happened today as I had multiple fish that contributed to the hat trick. I've only been able to do this once before a lo...

A wooden egg float with a pink Deceiver fly was the hot set up yesterday for stripers and albies. I hit a pile of fussy stripers yesterday in front of me that were feeding on small bay anchovies.  Most fishermen who were tossing large plugs could not even get a sniff. So I snapped on one of my old finesse fishing favorites in this situation the...

I got the biggest fish in a while from the kayak today. The overslot biggie hit an unweighted Finesse Fish twitched on top in shallow water. I was using light tackle.   I found a pile of stripers today.  While most of them were small I did manage to catch several slots/ overslots. With all the fishing focus on albies these days this is a reminder...

It was a productive day yesterday in the kayak in Gansett Bay. I decided to forgo the madness along the oceanfront yesterday and heading to a quiet spot in the Bay in my kayak. In the last month the Bay has offered steady fishing for stripers because of the vast amounts of bait (mostly peanut bunker) that has settled in there. Yesterday was a ty...

Bonito have also been in the mix.   Albies hit the RI oceanfront in big numbers this week. Here's a large one I landed from shore. It all broke open this week.  I just knew with the massive amounts of bait along the oceanfront that the fishing would explode.  And it did. The stripers and the bonito were already around with a few Spanish mackerel i...

A massive amount of bait hit the oceanfront in the last two days. The bait was bay anchovies of 2 to 3 inches and big time numbers of stripers were on them.  It was fall blitz-like action that I haven't seen in a long time. Thousands of birds were diving from above as stripers were blasting from below.  It was two days of wild fishing for me whic...

I found very good numbers of schoolies along  the oceanfront today in some rough water.  I know it is only one day after Labor Day but already the fishing along the oceanfront has taken a big uptick for the better.  Today seemed to have good fishing no matter where you went with very few crowds. I love this time of year. We had a big east wind tod...

Striper fishing has been super for me from the kayak. There are lots of hefty schoolies along  with some good size slots and overs.  If you are a saltwater fisherman you realize that Labor Day is usually the turning point when fishing goes from bad to better. Well it's happened earlier this year.  I'm guessing the cooler weather has had a big effe...

Matt with a big albie on his 39th birthday! Today was my son Matt's 39th birthday. He took a vacation day from work and wanted to know if I wanted to join him and my 4 year old grandson Troy on a fishing expedition to Vineyard Sound in his boat. I was all in! We went there in the hopes of landing a birthday bonito as we heard there were some hit...

Small bluefish in the 3 to 5 lb. range were on the rampage this evening in the Bay. I hit a big pile of bluefish in the Bay this evening. In was fall action with schools of blues tearing through schools of peanut bunker. This has been going on for a while but the intensity was cranked up tonight. I ended up landing 10 of them.  They were 3 to 5...

I I've landed good numbers of bluefish this week in the Bay where the water has been fishable. n the last few days it has been way too rough and dangerous for me to fish the oceanfront.  But I haven't missed a day as I turned to my ace in the hole when the oceanfront is unfishable. The waters from the mid Bay to the upper Bay have been calm clean...

They were around yesterday in the rough water. It's been a familiar theme for me since the early summer. Rough and stormy weather have delivered the good fishing. Calm waters and it has been poor.  I got out yesterday along the oceanfront. It was super windy and rough.  There was a lot of white water in any location where the wind was coming at...

There are decent numbers of bluefish around in Narragansett Bay.  They are chasing down huge schools of  peanut bunker. In the last week I caught more bluefish from shore than I've caught the whole rest of the year.  They've arrived in Narragansett Bay chasing down huge schools of peanut bunker.  These are generally small averaging 3 to 5 lbs. b...

Back in business with a couple of hefty schoolies from the Yak this evening. I've been catching in the last few days.  I found the Mother Lode of peanut bunker and there have been bluefish and stripers on them. It's not crazy but it looks like the start of some better fishing. It's about time!  Yesterday I fished from shore and landed three blue...

Hailey Pickering age 6 hoists a good size sunfish. I took the grandkids fishing in freshwater yesterday. We fished a very productive and easy to access pond called Jabob's Pond in Norwell MA which was right near their house.  They had a blast catching bluegills and sunfish using mealworms which I bought at Petco since I could not dig any earthwo...