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...

My latest magazine article is titled   Summer Storms Light up the Surf. I was living this story in the last two days! My latest article in The Fisherman magazine just came out in the August edition.  It's titled Summer Storms Light up the Surf.  I've been living this article in the past two days. In the article I write about how summer stormines...

I've seen a major decline in the numbers of  stripers in the last five years. This year is  particularly bad. The facts don't lie.  I looked back at my logs over the last five years to see what my numbers were each year up to this point from 2021 to 2025.  I was shocked but not surprised at what I found. We are currently about halfway through the...

My friend and charter boat captain Jerry Sparks got me hooked up with the Varivas line company.  This Japanese line company was looking for a surf fisherman that could be a field tester for them for their premium braided lines and fluorocarbon.  He recommended me and I'm now using Varivas braided line. I'll bet most of you haven't heard of this...

Striper fishing from shore has bottomed out in the last week.  I don't care whether you fish on stormy days or in the dead of night it is just plain poor. Yes we are in the dog days of summer and July is not a very good month for shore fishermen here in RI.  Read the reports and you'll see it's not good in the Bay it's not good along the oceanfro...

The shore fishing was very good yesterday in some roughed up  water. This slot fish has a bucktail jig  in its mouth.  The jig was fished off a wooden egg float.  I got out yesterday from shore and had a banner day. Conditions were a perfect 10 if you were a surf guy.  It was overcast the surf was roughed up from a front that passed through the da...

I got out a couple of days ago and fished some great water but all I found was this lone  schoolie that I caught on a  bucktail jig. The fishing has  cooled off.  Before that sweltering heat wave we had this week the shore fishing had been very good.  After the hot weather not so good. I got out a couple of days ago and the fishing landscape seeme...

Decked out and ready for a day of fishing  in the sun. I'm very cautious when out fishing in the sun. I take a lot of precautions since I am really prone to skin cancer.  In the last ten years I have had two basal cell carcinomas removed along with one squamous cell carcinoma. One of these was quite problematic and I had to have extensive recons...

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...