Latest Ocean State Fishing Reports
07/30/10
Fished BI with Peter Vican on Friday night from 8 PM to 6 AM Saturday morning. We had a terrific night with 30 bass caught and 27 of released. In the mix were 12 bass over 40 lbs. Peter weighed in a 51.1 lb. bass for the Team RISAA in the Striper Cup and I weighed in a 46.4 lb. bass for it (the bass was actually about 51 lbs. when caught on Friday night but lost the weight on the deck because it wouldn’t fit into the well). Another 41 lb. bass was a floater and could not be revived so it was also kept. All bass were taken with light tackle and live eels and were donated to the food bank after the weigh in at Snug Harbor. There were at least 10 boats huddled over the peanut last night so we went to another favorite spot of ours to avoid the crowd. Unfortunately there were a lot of large bluefish in the area we chose to fish but it kept the faint of heart away from us all night. The bluefish were up to 15 lbs and it was very difficult getting past them to the bass. They reigned havoc on our gear and we went through close to 40 leaders and circle hooks on the bluefish, not to mention about 6 lbs. of eels. It was worth it though.
08/01/10
Went out fri and sat to the SW side. Fri was calling to blow and it was nice. Sat called for 1-2 and we got our butt kicked. Managed 21 bass and an ungodly amount of blues in the 2 days. Went through about 20 rigs and 80 eels between 2 of us in 2 days. Oh well beats yard work.
08/01/09
The 3 of us left Bullock's Cove at 5am all hyped up for a great day of flat fishing on what was supposed to be FLAT seas with our 17 foot Sea Fox adventure boat like usual.. Even though the flat seas weren't around at all, the flat fish were. We had a great day all around Narrow River, Jamestown and back up to the Newport Bridge and back in by 3pm. We Caught FLuke all day with the biggest being a 24-1/2" Doormat as well as a 22" , 20" and 3 at 19-1/2+" (some good keepers for once) !! We also had lots of 16"-18" shorts that went back as well ( probably a dozen of them). We also caught some dogs,skates and robins along with 1 keeper black seabass.. Even though we took a beatin around the way, the fishin was awesome all day !!
08/01/10
Had the family out on Sunday to do some sea bass and fluke fishing. A friend had give me some numbers on spot about 4 miles south of Sakonnet Point Light where he loaded up on big, 4-6# sea bass on Friday & Saturday. We left Bullock Cove at 10:30 am and got to the point about 11:15 where we found 4-6' seas and a gusty wind of 15-20 knots. I slugged my way towards the coordinates, rock pile but the seas were to huff even in my 26' and I had one getting sea sick. We stopped about a mile short of the rock pile over another set of rocks and dropped a high/low rig baited with squid strips and mummies. My rig got to the bottom first and I had a strike. After a good fight, I boated a 6# 4 oz male sea bass. My wife dropped an caught two, a 4# and a 3#. My granddaughter dropped an got a 23" fluke. We had enough fish for supper so we started back. I believe every rock pile south of Sakonnet must hold lots of sea bass.
07/17/10
We got 7 keeper fluke, one keeper sea bass, and two bluefish on Saturday morning from 6am-noon, along with many short fluke and smaller sea bass. We were a mile or so off the beaches south of Pt. Judith in about 50-60 ft. of water. Using squid strips and mummies on hi-low fluke rigs (ThomCat rigs). Nothing over 22" for the fluke, most right at keeper size. One interesting thing: one of the bluefish I caught puked up two whole squid, one of which landed on the deck of the boat. I put the whole squid on my fluke rig and caught two keeper fluke on it right away. We were thinking the "fresh" squid really does make a difference.
07/23/10
Went out this morning with Captain Chris from www.adventurecharters.org and killed the bass and bluefish off of Block Island (north end). There were six of us on the boat and we all must have caught around 8 nice bass apiece and as many bluefish. Biggest bass was 34 lbs. and and we had many over 20 lbs. Bluefish were big too, one ran around 16 lbs. Caught them all jigging. Very well run operation with good prices. Thanks again Captain. My arm is still sore from reeling in all the fish!!
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