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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

 I have caught so so many fish in the last three days on the float and fly.  The blitzing stripers are fussy as they feed on masses of small bay anchovies. The float and fly is the killer artificial to lure these fussy fish into hitting.&n

There have been big numbers of schoolies in the 20 to 25 inch range in the Bay.  Some small keepers are in the mix. Fishing for bluefish has been the best it has been in decades  in the Bay. September was about as good as it gets in Narrag

My next show stop will be at River's End Tackle in Old Saybrook CT. This popular and free event titled Striper Surf Day will be held on Sat. March 25.  It will feature sales on tackle tackle reps. demonstrations and seminars. This will be my

It was impossible to fish in most places along the oceanfront today due to hurricane waves.  There are lots of happenings along the oceanfront in recent days.  Here are just a few: 1. Huge Waves- Just too much in many places as we are bein

Fished the last day with Darryl Dave and Bill. It started out very rough but turned into a beautiful day. The fishing was on fire. We had well over 35 albies and a few other sea bass blues and porgies. We had a bunch of doubles and a few triple head

Usually a productive spot for stripers, albies and bonito. Bass bite is best predawn and after midnight. May, June, September & October are best for bass. Albies and bonito are seasonal, show up in July & August. You can use any bai

  A very hot plug in recent days has been the Yo Zuri Hydro Pencil in a bone color. I've  landed 14 slot keepers on this plug in the last few days. The best plug for me in the last couple of days has been the Yo Zuri Hydro Pencil. 

  This near keeper hit a jig off an egg float. The jig has a Fat Cow jig strip added. Those strips have been very  effective this fall The last few days saw some of the best striper fishing for us in the last month along the oceanfront. My

I landed this schoolie a couple of days ago. Their numbers have been on and off so far but I am guessing it will all get more consistent in the coming days and weeks. These big storms like we are currently experiencing really change things.  I

 The hype has already started. Just about every fishing report I have read today says bonito and albies are being caught as if these are the same fish.  They are not and a number of uninformed fishermen out there simply do not know the dif

Its has been some time since we've posted on our Blog. We'll do our best to continue to share whats going on in the fly fishing world at River & Riptide Anglers. Over the past several months we have been planning our new web site. We did it.

The tautog are taking green crabs off of the rocky structures in Nantucket Sound. Many are shorts and have to be thrown back but it sounds like if you put in the time you can get your limit with out having to go too far. Bigger striped bass have bee

There are good numbers of albies along the oceanfront.  There are good numbers of stripers mostly schoolies with some small keepers along both the oceanfront and the Bay.  There are phenomenal numbers of  three to five pound bluefish

The water has been super rough in the last week. It's not good for the albies but the stripers love it. Look for safe spots fo fish where you have clean white water. Albies have been for the most part a no show so far in RI waters.  While I

Fisheries and Wildlife have dispatched their trout trucks and stocked over 60 000 rainbows and 4 000 brown trout to various ponds across Massachusetts. You can go to the state’s website to find out which ponds get the fall trout stocking and w

My first RI albies were landed today in some rough water. The float 'n' fly was hot. Yes they have finally hit the RI shoreline this week in good numbers.  The key is finding them in some very rough water that we have been experiencing

It was ideal conditions yesterday evening along the RI shoreline but all I could find was a couple of  schoolies that I caught on a float and jig. It was back to reality in the last few days for me. With Canal fishing slowing to a crawl as the

 The Pink Deceiver was my very best fly to use this fall off a float.  It caught good numbers of albies.  It was also deadly off the wooden egg float when fussy stripers were feeding on bay anchovies. It's an easy tie for most fly

The sun reflects off the beautiful albie about to be landed from the boat. Best albie photo I've ever taken!