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 11/18/09 - Wednesday day off narragansett was productive 12 keepers plus some monsters, Dave zyons |
 10/21/09 - Had over 100 fish between 5 of us fishing out in front of Newport. Keeping our limit and releasing anything under 18 inches. The quality of fish was amazing. I had 5 fish over 8lbs myself with a 10.4lb Hog. The boat had at least 20 fish over 6lbs. The top of the outgoing really had them going crazy. Water temp was 56. Thanks for weighing in those fish for us on Wednesdat at Quaker lane Steve!
Regarding the marking of fish....I feel that it depends on the spot. Some locations you will see them and others you won't. I think that some of their habitat includes small caves that they hide in and only come darting out at the whiff of a tasty crab...this would make it hard to mark them on a finder. Good luck out there guys!! T
-Brian
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 10/28/09 - My name is Kevin, I grew up in RI, upper Narragansett Bay (Edgewood) to be more precise. I am brand new (this Spring) to surfcasting, but not new to saltwater fishing. Anybody looking to get up early and fish, I'm game. So far I have done quite well in the catching department, just nothing over 24 lbs so far.
I have attached a photo of the biggest Striper for me this season/life, 39" & 24 lbs, I caught her on a live eel on 10-19-2009 just after false dawn started. I was fishing on the RI/MA border and have been for several weeks now. I took my 4 year old (in photo) yesterday morning at 4:30 am, nothing big but quite a few schoolies were caught. A few too big for him to real in alone :)
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 11/01/09 - Had an interesting and in some ways unfortunate day this past Friday. Here is how things went down…
I met Elwell, Captain Cliff, Eric and Chris at Allen’s Harbor at 0530 for what was supposed to be a day of tog crushing aboard the Inheritance. We left on time at 0545 and headed down the Bay towards the tog grounds in the dark. Everything seemed to be going as planned until we got just south of the Newport Bridge….
All of a sudden, Inheritance went from her pleasant cruise speed to a sudden shutdown as if we had run out of gas or something….We quickly looked behind us to see if we had hit something but that was quickly ruled out…so we lifted the engine hatch to find that all of the oil had come up through the dipstick and was all over the engine….NOT GOOD was my first thought ….we all went into cleanup mode laying there dead in the water…luckily Cliff had “his diapers” and a bunch of rags and paper towels so we cleaned everything up as best we could. Eric added some oil and attempted to restart her so we could continue on our way. Once the motor was restarted the oil immediately started coming right back up the dipstick again. At that time we all knew that the boat was not going anywhere, and Eric diagnosed the problem as a blown head gasket. Captain Cliff got on the phone with Safe Sea and we dropped the anchor. They arrived at our location at around 0730 and had us back safely to Allen’s Harbor just after 0900.
With 3 of us having boats all in the area, we discussed our new game plan and decided that Chris’ boat which was in Wickford Harbor was the quickest way for us to get back out on the water. Cliff kindly agreed to stay with the boat and make arrangements for her rehab so that the rest of us could still try to salvage what was left of the day.
We made one quick stop at Eric’s house to grab a spare anchor before meeting at Chris’ boat and shoving off from Wickford at around 1015 hrs. We arrived on the tog grounds at 1115 at slack tide and quickly set the hook. Luckily for us there was no one on our piece. The bite initially was a little slow with the lack of tide, but it wasn’t long before Eric got us on the board and then we all started catching from there.
We fished from about 1130 right up until 1700 hrs and had probably 75 fish between the four of us only keeping our limit and throwing back many many nice fish. The bite was funny all day most likely due to the moon phase. Very soft slurpy kind of hits all day. Very frustrating with all of us dropping what looked like nice fish at one point or another during the day.
The two highlights of the day were when Elwell and I both hooked into 8lbers at the same time. The fish got tangled in each other during the fight and Chris managing to net both fish together simultaneously as they surfaced - and then soon after - Eric who had been crying for an hour or so that my side was the “hot side” and that he was fishing on Choggie Rock….LOL….finally laid into a nice fish and boated a 10.2 lb animal which turned out to be the best fish of the day.
So all in all, the 4 of us managed to salvage the day and put a nice little catch together. It was nice to finally meet you Chris and thanks for stepping up and letting us use your boat for the day. Best of luck Mr. Seabury with the fixing of your pride and joy! I wish her a speedy recovery.
-Brian Droney
ALBATROSS on the Inheritance & Island Time
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 09/15/09 - Check this out. 25 inch fluke caught southeast of the hooter. It was one of 4 keeper fluke along with 6 keeper sea bass ans 3 large blues. Epic dAy. |
 09/17/09 - I broke off, fishing with a 50 class reel, on Monday. Four fish were caught on Tuesday. Joka,(980) Bluefin, (877) Twenty-five, (400) and myself (Priority Too) (850).
Wednesday Tuna Tangler caught a 998. Nobody I know fished on Thursday. The commercial draggers are expected to slow down because the price of whiting is in the toilet. I’m sure the wind today and tomorrow won’t help either.
If you go, bring big rods (130’s) cause the fish are slammers.
Rick Bellavance
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 09/20/09 - Returned to my favorite spot (which shall remain nameless as it was given to me on that condition), hoping it had also become active. Two minutes in, Bamm! A fish pulled off drag very powerfully while towing me about 50 yards. Then there was no feel. I figured it was headed toward me/hoped I hadn't lost it, and reeled furiously for 15-20 seconds until I felt it again. It was only six feet from the boat! It towed my kayak at least 100 yards while pulling out a lot of drag and changing direction 3 or 4 times. I feared I would lose it at any moment because of all the time the line was slack, and because of all the directional changes. I feared especially that it would shake the hook when I reached for it close to the boat. Managed to grab it before it could shake and pull it in. It was clearly the biggest fish I had ever caught, though I kept getting different lengths when I tried to measure it on my lap.
It weighed in this morning at Quaker Lane at 46.1 pounds, nine hours after the catch, 11 pounds better than my previous best. No pictures yet.
Bob Oberg |
 08/27/09 - Got on the water around 8:30am with a good friend Conor - We had hopes that the wind would die down by then and we could get one more good fishing day in before Danny arrives. As we headed out the wind was still pretty stiff and seas sloppy. We gave ourselves a time limit and if the wind had not died down we'd head in - Thankfully the wind calmed.
As we passed the fairway buoy area I noticed a nice log covered with sea "junk" I threw metal and Conor a popper - Mahi went nuts for his popper. Conor hooked a nice Mahi and we tried to get one the followers the munch down on my mental but they could have cared less. After boating the Mahi and trying a few more casts they seemed to have disappeared so we moved on.
Now on the troll we ran by the high flyers as we continued towards the Mudhole. "Bang" Fish on with a good fight and a bit later a Big 40 inch Mahi. We were off to a great start. As we arrived to the mudhole action slowed almost non-existant. We had one hit and small run off but lost it. After some time we decided to head towards home trolling back in past all the high flyers again. On our way in we trolled past a 8ft hammerhead that we could get to bit anything - it just seemed to be out on a pleasure cruise...LOL. Then a few minutes later "Bam" fish on Conor reeled in a nice skipjack. We spent some extra time in the area with hopes of another hit but got nothing.
Right about then as I was on the Bow of Conors boat eagle eying for more buoys, any drift wood etc.. I saw it - A huge fish - which we figured must have been a mako jumped NO erupted out of the water into the air about 5 feet flipped and then noise dived back down into the water. I couldn't believe it - What an awesome thing to see - we were 13 miles off Pt. Jude heading in and this fish jumped maybe 3 miles in front of us off our bow. 3 miles away and I could still see it well. It was a big Fish!!!!
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 08/20/09 - > Below are the two photos of the 50 pound Bluefin tuna. Five hours/10
> minutes, 12wt fly rod, 40lb floro tippet, on a 8" Mackerel flatwing
> pattern. Rod snapped in half during the last 10ft of the battle. Mudd
> Hole to Cox's sleigh ride.
> Skipper Paul Bertelli is the other guy in the photo.
> Thanks,
> Paul Hooper |
 08/26/09 - same deal today at BI....no 2-4 footers....calm and flat,
one of the best weather days for BI. Fished with Steve Luke and the action was non stop with a couple of blues...but mostly bass, largest for the day was 40lbs with several at 25-30lbs.
A great day.... joe |
11/18/09 - Wednesday day off narragansett was productive 12 keepers plus some monsters, Dave zyons
10/21/09 - Had over 100 fish between 5 of us fishing out in front of Newport. Keeping our limit and releasing anything under 18 inches. The quality of fish was amazing. I had 5 fish over 8lbs myself with a 10.4lb Hog. The boat had at least 20 fish over 6lbs. The top of the outgoing really had them going crazy. Water temp was 56. Thanks for weighing in those fish for us on Wednesdat at Quaker lane Steve!
Regarding the marking of fish....I feel that it depends on the spot. Some locations you will see them and others you won't. I think that some of their habitat includes small caves that they hide in and only come darting out at the whiff of a tasty crab...this would make it hard to mark them on a finder. Good luck out there guys!! T
-Brian
10/28/09 - My name is Kevin, I grew up in RI, upper Narragansett Bay (Edgewood) to be more precise. I am brand new (this Spring) to surfcasting, but not new to saltwater fishing. Anybody looking to get up early and fish, I'm game. So far I have done quite well in the catching department, just nothing over 24 lbs so far.
I have attached a photo of the biggest Striper for me this season/life, 39" & 24 lbs, I caught her on a live eel on 10-19-2009 just after false dawn started. I was fishing on the RI/MA border and have been for several weeks now. I took my 4 year old (in photo) yesterday morning at 4:30 am, nothing big but quite a few schoolies were caught. A few too big for him to real in alone :)
11/01/09 - Had an interesting and in some ways unfortunate day this past Friday. Here is how things went down…
I met Elwell, Captain Cliff, Eric and Chris at Allen’s Harbor at 0530 for what was supposed to be a day of tog crushing aboard the Inheritance. We left on time at 0545 and headed down the Bay towards the tog grounds in the dark. Everything seemed to be going as planned until we got just south of the Newport Bridge….
All of a sudden, Inheritance went from her pleasant cruise speed to a sudden shutdown as if we had run out of gas or something….We quickly looked behind us to see if we had hit something but that was quickly ruled out…so we lifted the engine hatch to find that all of the oil had come up through the dipstick and was all over the engine….NOT GOOD was my first thought ….we all went into cleanup mode laying there dead in the water…luckily Cliff had “his diapers” and a bunch of rags and paper towels so we cleaned everything up as best we could. Eric added some oil and attempted to restart her so we could continue on our way. Once the motor was restarted the oil immediately started coming right back up the dipstick again. At that time we all knew that the boat was not going anywhere, and Eric diagnosed the problem as a blown head gasket. Captain Cliff got on the phone with Safe Sea and we dropped the anchor. They arrived at our location at around 0730 and had us back safely to Allen’s Harbor just after 0900.
With 3 of us having boats all in the area, we discussed our new game plan and decided that Chris’ boat which was in Wickford Harbor was the quickest way for us to get back out on the water. Cliff kindly agreed to stay with the boat and make arrangements for her rehab so that the rest of us could still try to salvage what was left of the day.
We made one quick stop at Eric’s house to grab a spare anchor before meeting at Chris’ boat and shoving off from Wickford at around 1015 hrs. We arrived on the tog grounds at 1115 at slack tide and quickly set the hook. Luckily for us there was no one on our piece. The bite initially was a little slow with the lack of tide, but it wasn’t long before Eric got us on the board and then we all started catching from there.
We fished from about 1130 right up until 1700 hrs and had probably 75 fish between the four of us only keeping our limit and throwing back many many nice fish. The bite was funny all day most likely due to the moon phase. Very soft slurpy kind of hits all day. Very frustrating with all of us dropping what looked like nice fish at one point or another during the day.
The two highlights of the day were when Elwell and I both hooked into 8lbers at the same time. The fish got tangled in each other during the fight and Chris managing to net both fish together simultaneously as they surfaced - and then soon after - Eric who had been crying for an hour or so that my side was the “hot side” and that he was fishing on Choggie Rock….LOL….finally laid into a nice fish and boated a 10.2 lb animal which turned out to be the best fish of the day.
So all in all, the 4 of us managed to salvage the day and put a nice little catch together. It was nice to finally meet you Chris and thanks for stepping up and letting us use your boat for the day. Best of luck Mr. Seabury with the fixing of your pride and joy! I wish her a speedy recovery.
-Brian Droney
ALBATROSS on the Inheritance & Island Time
09/15/09 - Check this out. 25 inch fluke caught southeast of the hooter. It was one of 4 keeper fluke along with 6 keeper sea bass ans 3 large blues. Epic dAy.
09/17/09 - I broke off, fishing with a 50 class reel, on Monday. Four fish were caught on Tuesday. Joka,(980) Bluefin, (877) Twenty-five, (400) and myself (Priority Too) (850).
Wednesday Tuna Tangler caught a 998. Nobody I know fished on Thursday. The commercial draggers are expected to slow down because the price of whiting is in the toilet. I’m sure the wind today and tomorrow won’t help either.
If you go, bring big rods (130’s) cause the fish are slammers.
Rick Bellavance
09/20/09 - Returned to my favorite spot (which shall remain nameless as it was given to me on that condition), hoping it had also become active. Two minutes in, Bamm! A fish pulled off drag very powerfully while towing me about 50 yards. Then there was no feel. I figured it was headed toward me/hoped I hadn't lost it, and reeled furiously for 15-20 seconds until I felt it again. It was only six feet from the boat! It towed my kayak at least 100 yards while pulling out a lot of drag and changing direction 3 or 4 times. I feared I would lose it at any moment because of all the time the line was slack, and because of all the directional changes. I feared especially that it would shake the hook when I reached for it close to the boat. Managed to grab it before it could shake and pull it in. It was clearly the biggest fish I had ever caught, though I kept getting different lengths when I tried to measure it on my lap.
It weighed in this morning at Quaker Lane at 46.1 pounds, nine hours after the catch, 11 pounds better than my previous best. No pictures yet.
Bob Oberg
08/27/09 - Got on the water around 8:30am with a good friend Conor - We had hopes that the wind would die down by then and we could get one more good fishing day in before Danny arrives. As we headed out the wind was still pretty stiff and seas sloppy. We gave ourselves a time limit and if the wind had not died down we'd head in - Thankfully the wind calmed.
As we passed the fairway buoy area I noticed a nice log covered with sea "junk" I threw metal and Conor a popper - Mahi went nuts for his popper. Conor hooked a nice Mahi and we tried to get one the followers the munch down on my mental but they could have cared less. After boating the Mahi and trying a few more casts they seemed to have disappeared so we moved on.
Now on the troll we ran by the high flyers as we continued towards the Mudhole. "Bang" Fish on with a good fight and a bit later a Big 40 inch Mahi. We were off to a great start. As we arrived to the mudhole action slowed almost non-existant. We had one hit and small run off but lost it. After some time we decided to head towards home trolling back in past all the high flyers again. On our way in we trolled past a 8ft hammerhead that we could get to bit anything - it just seemed to be out on a pleasure cruise...LOL. Then a few minutes later "Bam" fish on Conor reeled in a nice skipjack. We spent some extra time in the area with hopes of another hit but got nothing.
Right about then as I was on the Bow of Conors boat eagle eying for more buoys, any drift wood etc.. I saw it - A huge fish - which we figured must have been a mako jumped NO erupted out of the water into the air about 5 feet flipped and then noise dived back down into the water. I couldn't believe it - What an awesome thing to see - we were 13 miles off Pt. Jude heading in and this fish jumped maybe 3 miles in front of us off our bow. 3 miles away and I could still see it well. It was a big Fish!!!!
08/20/09 - > Below are the two photos of the 50 pound Bluefin tuna. Five hours/10
> minutes, 12wt fly rod, 40lb floro tippet, on a 8" Mackerel flatwing
> pattern. Rod snapped in half during the last 10ft of the battle. Mudd
> Hole to Cox's sleigh ride.
> Skipper Paul Bertelli is the other guy in the photo.
> Thanks,
> Paul Hooper
08/26/09 - same deal today at BI....no 2-4 footers....calm and flat,
one of the best weather days for BI. Fished with Steve Luke and the action was non stop with a couple of blues...but mostly bass, largest for the day was 40lbs with several at 25-30lbs.
A great day.... joe
