Author: David Pickering

7/30/2015 - It's late July, but we are suddenly in an early September pattern of fishing. There are big schools of bait, various kinds, moving along the oceanfront. It is attracting schools of stripers, blues, black sea bass, and fluke. The problem is that the bait is not always around. In the… SEE MORE

5/7/2015 - The water is cold (40s), the air is cold, the winds have been wrong, but the fishing is hot. I have hit the oceanfront hard in the past week and I can tell you the fishing is about as good as it gets at this time of year. I've found… SEE MORE

4/14/2015 - You know we are getting close to the start of a new striper season when I start packing my surf bag. Sometime within the next two weeks you will hear about migrating stripers being caught along the south shore or even in Narragansett Bay. While everything is late this year… SEE MORE

10/29/2014 - A snagger is a key device that should be in every surf bag. I can't tell you how many times I've gone down to the ocean in late fall and found an isolated school of menhaden or pogies within a cast of where I am standing. I also can't tell… SEE MORE

10/2/2014 - This week I saw the most fish I have seen on any outing this year from shore. I hit a spot along the oceanfront on Monday where stripers and blues had a massive school of bay anchovies pinned up against a rocky shoreline. At times hundreds of stripers could be… SEE MORE

9/17/2014 - They are here — big time. False albacore, known as albies, have hit the RI oceanfront in masses in the past week. They are in a wide stretch of the oceanfront from Narragansett all the way to the far south shore beaches. For all I know they could even be… SEE MORE

8/13/2014 - Things are looking up along the Rhode Island oceanfront. I mean really looking up. The most positive news in a long time is that huge schools of bay anchovies are moving along the oceanfront shoreline. This bait makes things happen. The bait has drawn in fluke, bluefish, and schoolies as… SEE MORE

7/23/2014 - I went out last week on a scouting mission along the Rhode Island oceanfront. My plan was to fish the bottom with jigs for fluke and scup in the daylight and then fish into the night for stripers. I worked one of the jetties with a bucktail jig along the… SEE MORE

6/27/2014 - I fished upper Narragansett Bay this week and landed four schoolies that looked like clones — all in the 18-20-inch range. (They were all taken on Zoom flukes fished off a float.) Last weekend, I went down to the Cape Cod Canal with my son Ben and we each got a… SEE MORE