Mel Daniels from Jersey City, NJ with the jumbo fluke he
caught aboard the Gail Frances Friday.
Sergeant Potts Tournament seeks support
The 10th Annual Staff
Sergeant Potts Fishing Tournament will be held Friday, September 4th,
12:00 p.m. to Saturday, September 12th, 12:00 p.m.
The tournament is hosted by the
Aquidneck Island Striper Team and includes a free cookout, music and raffles on
Saturday, September 12th, 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Portuguese American
Citizens Club in Portsmouth, RI. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at
Riverside Marine, Crafty One Customs, Sam’s Bait & Tackle and Lucky Bait
& Tackle. For information visit www.AIStriperTeam.com .
Capt. Michael Littlefield,
tournament organizer said, “In order to make our 10th
year a success, we need your help with food, raffle, and prize items.
Whether it’s fishing
equipment, a gift certificates, a monetary donation or food, we would greatly
appreciate your generosity for whatever you can contribute. Donations
will be accepted at any of the participating tackle shops.
Staff Sergeant Potts was assigned
to the 1st Battalion, 103rd Field Artillery Regiment,
Army National Guard, Providence, RI. SSG
Potts died in 2004 in Taji, Iraq while conducting traffic control operations.
He leaves a wife and two children.”
The tournament includes first, second
and third place prizes for striped bass and bluefish with the top five tautog
awarded prizes. The tournament also has a
Grand Slam prize…weigh-in one each of three species and the highest combined
total weight wins. See entry form for
contest rules this year.
Rhody Fly Rodders summer
meeting today
The Rhody Fly Rodders will fish the
out-going tide today (Thursday, August 20) at Quonochontaug. High tide is at 2:15 p.m. Non-members are welcome. The group will fish
until 5:00 p.m., get the grilles going (bring your own burgers and hot dogs),
and then fish until dark. Bottled water,
chips and utensils provided. Directions… Route 1 south (Boston Post Road), exit
west on Beach Road and follow it to the end.
Call Peter Nilsen, president, if you have questions at 401.633.5329.
Where’s the bite
August has been an excellent
fishing month. With a late start to the
season, due to cold water in the spring, anglers are hoping for a strong fall fishing
season.
Striped bass, fluke and bonito fishing good
Neil Hayes of Quaker Lane
Outfitters, North Kingstown said, “The striped bass bite at Block Island has
been very strong.” Saturday I fished Block Island with Kevin Fetzer of East
Greenwich and Steve Brustein of West Warwick for striped bass and summer flounder
(fluke) and the fishing was good. We
stopped off just inside the three mile limit off Point Judith and hooked up
with multiple summer flounder and back sea bass.
Matt Conti of Snug Harbor Marina,
South Kingstown said, “Fluke on the southeast corner of Block Island has been
good as well as at the hooter can off Point Judith. The striped bass bite on
Block Island is good with eels being the bait of choice this week. Green bonito fishing has been great too from
Point Judith to Westerly.”
Angler Ken Blanchard, Jr. said on
the RISAA blog, “Lots of schools of bonito from the beach at Quonnie very close
to shore. I was in the schools twice for three casts with a small Deadly Dick
but never got a hook-up…had my chances for sure.”
“One
theme which has been becoming increasingly apparent this season is that those
who are really dialed in with the buck tails are scoring the best (fluke
fishing on the Frances Fleet)… although this past Saturday saw whole squid
reign supreme.”, said Roger Simpson of the Frances Fleet.
Hayes of Quaker Lane said, “There
has been a good squid run this past week in both Jamestown and Newport.”
Offshore fishing
“Offshore fishing for big eye tuna and yellowfin has
been fair with anglers being successful landing fish but not like the fall run
we had last year. Fish are being caught
at the Fish Tales and Atlantis with anglers hooking up with mako sharks at the
Fingers. Cod fishing on Cox’s Ledge has been good too.” said Matt Conti of Snug
Harbor Marina.
Ken Landry of Ray’s Bait &
Tackle, Warwick said, “People are catching striped bass at Block Island both
day and night but the bite is good some days and not so good other days. The same with offshore fishing. Guys are trying to hook up with shark and
tuna but things offshore are not consistently good.”
Scup, bluefish bite good in Bay
In Narragansett Bay fishing has
slowed due to warming water. But angles are catching scup, black sea bass and
bluefish with the tautog bite just starting as anglers turn their attention to
this species. Neil Hayes of Quaker Lane said, “The tautog bite is still not
strong as the water is still warm, but some people are catching fish.”
Ken Landry of Ray’s Bait &
Tackle said, “Fluke fishing in Narragansett Bay has slowed down quite a bit but
fish are being caught under the bridges, at the Sakonnet and at Elbow Ledge.
The tautog fishing is slow but a customer has caught several keepers with
shorts mixed in off the town dock in Jamestown.
He is also catching scup and squid from the dock in Jamestown.”
Brandon Hagopian of Cranston landed
a 9.4 pound fluke this week in the Newport Bridge area. Brandon said, “This weekend the fluke were following the big balls of squid from the bridge to
Bull Point, Jamestown. We were getting them from 100 feet to 35 feet. Used as
light a jig as you can to hold bottom with, cast up current, and finesse it
past the drift until you can't hold ground anymore. Bring it up and redo. It takes a lot of work but when they are
finicky it does the trick.”
John Littlefield of
Archie’s Bait & Tackle Riverside said, “The water is very warm in
the Bay. Everyone is catching scup… at Barrington Beach and just about anywhere
you can put a line in the water… Riverside and Providence. The bass bite is
nonexistent but the bluefish are around in numbers. Thursday night at a summer concert at Crescent
Park Carousel the bluefish were in a feeding frenzy pushing bait fish to the
shore and onto the beach and the band stopped playing as everyone at the
concert watched the bluefish action by the shore.”
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