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...

Here's a slot fish coming ashore with my Albie Snax in its mouth. The striper fishing has taken a dramatic turn for the better for me in June. The sandeel arrival has brought big numbers of stripers to the oceanfront.  The whole month has been productive but the climax was a couple of days ago when I hit one of the biggest blitzes I have ever se...

Here's a striper that grabbed my Red Gill Teaser a dead ringer when stripers are feeding on sandeels. The sandeel invasion is here.  In the last week big schools of them have arrived along the oceanfront with big numbers of stripers on them. In the last couple of evenings I found big numbers of hefty schoolies and small slots feeding on them. Ma...

I've been out in the kayak about a quarter of the days this spring.  I'm fishing the Bay from the yak on  calm days. I've really taken a two way approach to striper fishing this spring.  In rough and windy weather I have been fishing from the shore both at the oceanfront and in the Bay.  When it has been calm I've opted for the kayak staying in...

I landed a monster striper from the kayak today maybe my biggest in years.  It came as a complete surprise.  I was fishing a shallow area close to shore using a light outfit hoping to get a schoolie or a slot.  The rod was a St. Croix Avid inshore rod that measured 7 ft. 3 inches that had Daiwa BG 4000 reel with 30 lb. test braid.  I was fishing...

The fishing has seen an uptick in the  last week.  Kayakers and boater have had the advantage. I landed this one a few days ago from the yak. The recent very high and low tides delivered improved action for stripers here in RI. The improvement came in both the Bay and along the oceanfront. There have been better numbers of stripers some big ones...

I've seen a big uptick in fishing from my kayak during this Memorial Day Weekend. This decent size striper hit a weightless Finesse Fish twitched on top. Weightless plastics fished on top have been hot.

Here's a serious fish landed last evening from the Yak using a my finesse approach. I was back in the kayak last evening and I decided to make some changes to my fishing approach. I made some changes that hopefully would add more effectiveness to my finesse game.  I have been dealing with fussy fish lately that woud follow and whirl but not real...

I landed this decent one a couple of nights ago in a backwater location.  Overall there are a lot less stripers around this year but there are some quality fish. As we head into Memorial Day weekend the key word to describe the striper fishing here in RI is MEDIOCRE. Spring fishing should be peaking right now but it isn't. It's easy to blame the...

Back in the kayak and catching!  I took the kayak out in 'Gansett Bay several times in the last week. I was mostly fishing skinny backwaters and taking a finesse approach when doing it. While I did better than I have been doing from shore it was still mediocre fishing compared to past years.  I put 7 fish in the yak but none were slots or overs. A...

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...