It was about 9:00 A.M. on this mid-July day and I was working a nice draft along Grace’s Cove on Block Island in my kayak. I could tell from the high cloud ceiling, blue skies and humidity that it was going to be a scorcher so I had snuck out at 4:00 A.M. to get in a quick fish before it got to bright…
It’s hard to find a more textured place than Newport, the historic summer resort city at the south end of Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay. If you walk along Bellevue Avenue, you’ll know what I’m talking about…
The moon is down. the striped bass are in. And the water is black as night. Welcome to the dark side.
Estuaries are some of the sweetest saltwater fishing spots. They are seldom far from the crashing surf, strong tidal rips or surging rocks, but are protected by land and by trees which minimize the impact from the wind…
The Massachusetts North Shore- that stretch of coastline between Boston Harbor and the New Hampshire border- is a piece of turf where you can catch striped bass and still smell the pungency of rotting apples or cut hay drying in the sun. There are not many places along the eastern seaboard where you get the mix of sweet inland and salty coastal smells…