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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Game On ! Spring Stripe Bass are Here !

I have received over 25 e-mails and photos and Facebook notices with photos of the "New" 2015 class of schoolies working there way up the coastline along Rhode Island hot spots.
Small is the key to having a blast with the frisky stripe bass. I was using 3/8oz red and white bucktails and my favorite zoom super fluke albino color and blue/ chrome kastmaster with the single hook feather tail.I thought the new moon on April 18th would be the day this year and I admit I was off by a week because of the colder water temps that have backed up everything from the bass and blackfish bite to the early backyard garden plantings. Cover more coastline with a smaller surf bag with half a dozen favorites and hooks, swivels and your pliers for a quick release instead of the three drawer old style tackle box which can tend to be heavy in our Golden Years.
Please take a young person to teach or better yet a older person in a nursing home or a older Veteran to relive their previous annual trips to Narragansett Bay for another time and to pass down their knowledge to another generation of fishers. New fresh keepers should be in about a week or so.
Remember a salt water license ($7) resident on line ($10 non-resident)is required and Rhode Island which is reciprocal with Mass., Conn. NY, NH, and Maine and Rhode Island

Photo by Dave Pickering

Wayne Barber

is now one stripe bass at 28 inch.

Mass.1-28
Conn. 1-28
NH. 1-28
Vir. 1-28
NC. 1-28
NY 1-28
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