Latest Ocean State Fishing Reports
07/13/08
Fished the Snug Harbor shark tournament with an outstanding, experienced crew. We fished a secret undesclosed piece of structure (sorry) and released tons of blue sharks like most of the boats did. We tagged 5 blue sharks , two that were 200-275 lbs. We were fortunate enough to boat an excelant grill sizzling mako about 125 lbs on a whole bluefish @ 4 lbs. It was a screaming hit and one big jump off the bow for Mr mako then he got tail wrapped and and then tail roped in just a few minutes. As the mako was still bleeding out waiting for the box, a 6 ft blue shark came out of of nowhere and started ripping him apart. It took several smacks with the butt end of a gaff to make him let go. In the box you go.That was quite the scene. We went on to unfortunately drop what could have easily been the winning mako when our 450 lb cable was bitten off, seconds after a hook set.
07/05/08
Fished Saturday evening from 6-9:30pm out of the Narrow River from the boat. I had a buddy up from CT for the night, so I wanted to find fish quickly - bass or blues. Didn't have to look far - an incredible sight at the mouth of the river - where thousands of 6-10lb. bluefish were herding bait. Lasted for over two hours. Sand eels were the bait. The water was literally littered with chum from the feeding frenzy. Every cast, as soon as the lure hit the water, you were on. We used small Storm Shads, but you could've used tin foil with a hook and had the same results. We laughed that it would be more of a challenge to NOT catch a fish. Lots of fun for myself and my friend who does not get to the salt water very often for fishing. He told me after that it was the best fishing he's ever done, so I'll take that any day. Tried Beavertail briefly for bass with eels, but just a couple more blues. Dave Sweet
06/27/08
Hit Bold Pt at 5:30 am to snag some bait and check for bass. Tide was outgoing. We live lined pogies while snagging. We filled the live well with a few dozen pogies and left the river since we hadn't gotten a single hit. We fished between Popasquash Pt and Hog Island with the small fleet there in about 20'-25' of water. We caught one 33" striper on a chunk 3 wayed on the bottom. It seemed the guys catching all the fish were yo-yoing. We left the area and headed west across the channel at the southern end of Potters Cove. We were marking lots of big fish deep. About 5 minutes later a big school of blues came up all around us. All baits were taken. We rigged plugs real quick and played with the blues for a while. We headed back to Popasquash with no luck. Checked Ohio Ledge. The entire southern third was teaming with big blues to 12 lbs that were easily taken on chunks 3 wayed. On the way back north we checked Barrington Beach area for fish, nothing. Tried the river since it was an incoming tide with no bass hits and a couple of blues. We pulled out around 12:30 pm. Water temp at Popasquash was 68F. Ohio ledge and Barrington Beach was 70F. River at the LNG tank was 69.3F.
06/28/08
Put in in lower west bay around 3 pm. Caught 1 schoolie just under 28" in first two hours. Headed over to Jamestown and fished the cliffs down to Beavertail and back -- one small schoolie. Came back. Fog and moderately rough water. Had one fish about 32 inches on; lost it near the boat because I was more worried about the water than the fish. Put pontoons to stabilize boat and and immediately brought in a 34 inch/15 pounder. Caught three more schoolies on the way back. Off around 8 pm. Tube and worm for all fish. No blues in sight.
06/18/08
Launched yesterday afternoon on the Prowler with Bill K. & his friend Keith. Keith is a freshwater fly fisherman...never caught a saltwater fish on the fly. We started fishing the N. Rip just before 6pm. Slow early on, then the games began. Triples were the norm. Fish fat & heavy...lots of keeper sizes to 35". Keith had a ball!! Some sand eels left on the deck. Unfortunately the lightning on the horizon finally made us decide to head in early. Not a bad evening....24 Bass (no blues) T/R. Two were kept. I was almost glad we quit early...I was getting tired!! As we safely docked, the huge, rosy strawberry moon was partially visible on the horizon. Delightful evening with great folks....& one more hooked on fly fishing the salt.
06/21/08
We took a ride out to Ryan's Horn to try our hand at some shark fishing yesterday. Sea conditions were excellent. We had mild headwind on the way out with a bit of a chop (3 footers with the occasional larger wave mixed in to test my dental work...). The ride home was smooth sailing at 30 mph the whole way. We set up just southwest of Ryan's Horn. There were only one or two other boats on the horizon. As soon as we got set up, before I could even set up a rod for "pitch bait", we were into huge blue sharks. The fishing was hot and heavy. The blue sharks were big and we were getting exhausted fighting them. Swarming around the boat and we were feeding them by hand. We picked up and ran over to Jennie's Horn to get away from the blue sharks and see if we could raise a thresher or mako. No luck.
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