To find early season stripers, think shallow and moving waters.

How to Find, and Catch, Early Season Stripers

4/30/2012 - I got out fishing Saturday evening. My main focus was to fish shallow, moving water. I got in this one Bay location where I had a small outflow spilling water into the Bay. The place looked like a nothing spot but with water movement, it had really produced for me… SEE MORE
A nice, fat 28-inch striper that took a Zoom fluke on a small jighead.

Striper Bliss: Two Casts, Two Keepers

4/25/2012 - You know the numbers of keepers are on the increase when you can hook two of them on back-to-back casts. It happened to me Tuesday night while fishing the Bay from shore with a Zoom fluke on a small jighead with light tackle. The two fish looked like clones. Both… SEE MORE
Fishing with my brother, Steve, I have hit the jackpot fishing in the bay in the past week.

Skinny Plastic Proves a Hit for Bay Fishing

4/21/2012 - Skinny plastic is now my go-to lure for large stripers in the Bay as well as along the ocean. I'm talking using either a Hogy or a Slug Go. Thursday evening I was fishing the Bay with a 6-inch Slug Go fished off a wooden float and took several hefty… SEE MORE
The striper report in Rhode Island is simple right now: They are all over the place!

RI Coast Sees Hottest Spring Fishing in Years

4/16/2012 - Just about everyone expected a shortage of schoolies this spring. Looks like that prediction is off, since we are in one of the best spring schoolie runs in years here in Rhode Island. On Saturday I was fishing the upper Bay where I landed ten schoolies. I met up with… SEE MORE
Harbor with the WILLIAM BISBEE tied up at the wharf.

Swans Island In Quieter Days

4/12/2012 - These photographs were all selected from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company collection. The company's photographers captured images for postcard production and sought scenes depicting life in New England's small towns and villages. Swans Island has always been a fishing community (it's presently the homeport to about forty full-time fishermen).… SEE MORE
Zoom flukes mounted on small jigheads were the key to landing schoolies like this one last week.

Schoolie Fishing Heats Up in the Bay

4/9/2012 - My brother and I got out late last week in the upper Bay, as we took the boat out on its first voyage of 2012. Yes, we found good numbers of schoolies. Together we landed about fifteen fish, all new ones I suspect judging by their small size and bright… SEE MORE