Fishing the Ocean State - Photos
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 08/14/09 - "Been on fishing vacation since Friday and have been out in my kayak four nights from about three hours before high tide until the fish stop biting in the morning. Have been fishing mostly tube and worm and covering a lot of ground, from URI Coastal Resources to Narragansett Pier. The quantity of stripers is down over a few weeks ago and scup have been a nuisance, particularly the last two days, but I have been catching stripers and two-thirds of them have been keepers. The nicest have been 14pounds,17 pounds, 27 pounds and this 47-inch beauty that weighted in at Quaker Lane at 35 pounds. The biggest fish was caught with a tube and worm Tuesday morning around 8:30 a.m. in fog at the mouth of the Narrow River."
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 08/01/09 - A took a couple guys from my Jeep club out to Block Island for some striper fishing last night. Up to now the biggest fish they had caught were scup so I was hoping to put on a show. Fellow RISAA member Steve also joined us.
We left Galilee shortly after 2:00 pm with a plan to hit the incoming tide. Not much wind but there were some big ole swells out there. Had to slow down to keep the engine in the water. We fished eels at half a dozen spots out by the SW ledge, some spots closer in to the SW corner, Black Rock, and in front of the SE light. DEAD. By 8:00 pm all we had to show for our effort was a 6" sea bass caught on an 8" eel. I was actually starting to wish for bluefish. Or dogfish. Shortly after 8:00 pm we were back out by the SW ledge and when the current started to swing around the bite finally lit up. Phew! I was the first to hook up with what turned out to be a 49" cow. This fish was 44 lbs when I weighed it in for the RISAA Striper Cup team this morning. We kept repeating this same short drift and enoyed steady action for the next 2-3 hours. All except one fish measured well over 40". Once the bite tailed off at this spot we tried a couple other spots managing one more striper and a bluefish before finally calling it shortly after midnight. By this time the swell on the sound had died and we enjoyed a fast moonlight cruise back to the ramp.
-Eric |
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 08/01/09 - Headed out to Block @ 0530 with my buddies on my good friends Capt' Denny
Diiion and Capt Jim Mc Williams charter "Persuader". We fished eels and
Denny had us on them right away. As the tide changed so did the bite. We
managed 8 nice fish. I caught this one on lite line (12lb test) Great day. |
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 07/27/09 - My four sons and I wanted to go fishing. Two of my sons live in Rhode Island; one lives in the D.C. area and the other lives in Seattle, WA. Because of the distance, he only visits once a year.
I have never chartered a boat. I have a 24 ft. center console which serves all my needs; but for this trip I thought “To hell with the money”.
I won a trip with Captain Billy Silvia and on “Can’t Imagine Charters” last August 2008. So I booked with him for Saturday, July 25.
At dinner Friday night there was grumbling and bitching about early departure. We had to get up at 1:30 AM to shower and leave Warwick at 2:30 AM just as it started to rain and lighting. It rained like there was no tomorrow. There was a lot of bitching and moaning but no, we won’t turn back.
We picked up Joe in North Kingstown at 2:45 AM and Ted at Wakefield at 3:15 AM.
I am a strong proponent of “Lombardi Time” so we got to the dock at 3:40 AM and the weather had cleared.
Captain Billy Silvia pulled into the dock at 3:45 AM.
We left the dock at the boat ramp at Point Judith at 3:55 AM. We went poking around Block Island until he, Captain Billy, spotted fish on his fish finder.
Seas were flat with excellent visibility. There were two other boats in the darkness.
We put our first line in at 4:55 AM.
Our “crew” was comprised of a one novice fisherman, one son who hadn’t pick a rod up in 8 years, one son who has no love for fishing, one son who loves to fish and, myself a very experienced angler.
We had our limit in the boat at 5:40 AM; twelve fish up to 44 pounds. The fish ranged from 33 pounds to 44 pounds, average fish weighed 34 pounds.
I stopped fishing at 6:40 AM. I’m an old man and I was beat but my sons continued to fish until 8:30 AM.
This was unbelievable! We had bent rods all of the time. At one point the fish went back into the water at the same time; a 33 pound, a 37 pound, and a 41 pound.
I’m not certain how many fish we caught. It was close to fifty or more.
My personal best striper until this time was 31 pounds. I’ve fished since I was in short pants and this was the best fishing day I’ve had.
When Captain Billy was filleting the fish, he said it took him longer to filet the fish than to get our limit.
Thanks Captain Billy!
Jim Malley |
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 07/14/09 - Left Point Judith @ 0500 and stopped briefly at the North Rip to catch a
couple finicky bass (~6-8#) on small bucktails with pink sluggos. Fish and
birds were sattered all the way down to the R6 buoy and SW of there into the
boulder field. As the sun came up and the boats poured in, they went down.
We spent a short while playing with the smaller fish near R6 then went ~2
miles SW of the island, just SW of the trolling fleet.
On the first drift, I lost a good fish and we got another. We proceeded to
make the same drift over and over for the next three hours, getting at least
one fish each time. Problem was, my father took a while to land all the big
fish he caught. Two were identical fish 45" and 38#. The first came home
and the second was released with a tag (could my father be 2nd to Don/Peter
for the Governor's Cup?). The last was a fat 49# fish - see attached pic.
SOOO close to the big 50. We never left that spot until we ran out of eels
~10am. The drift was modest at best, but we consistently marked and caught
fish. I guess they wanted to eat! Only a couple bluefish chomps, and 5
doggies.
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 07/09/09 - Friday morning I caught a 10.7 lb. Fluke that measured 29". It was caught on a Bluefish strip using homemade fluke rigs and jigs that I pour, paint, and tie myself. It was caught off Black Rock at Block Island adter a good night of Striped Bass fishing.
We had a lot of small bass (15 to 20 lbs.) at the beginning of the night at Black Rock. We then moved out towards the ledge and were able to pick up a number of bass in the 35 to 40 lb. range.
Don Smith |
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 07/10/09 - Ed's big bass caught with Curt. |
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