Westport’s sea run brook trout live fragile existence
By Matt Patrick Steve Hurley, a trout expert with the Massachusetts Division of Fish and Wildlife, said the best thing we can do to protect the unique population of sea run brook trout is to keep land from being developed and to keep road run-off from going into the many streams that flow into the [...]
Read More →Fishing season’s not over — far from it
So you think it’s all over. You think fishing is done for the season, that Hurricane Sandy and last week’s nor’easter must have shut it down. Well, you’d be wrong. Fresh and saltwater fishing is great. Anglers are catching bass and trout in ponds and rivers stocked by the Department of Environmental Management (visit www.dem.ri.gov [...]
Read More →Mt. Hope sailing club team afloat on Bristol Harbor
Mount Hope High School has a new sailing team whose members have been out practicing on Bristol Harbor since mid-September. Like neighboring teams from Portsmouth and Barrington high schools, the fledgling team sails 420 dinghies (the boat of choice for most high school and collegiate teams) provided by the East Bay Sailing Foundation. Junior Jeff [...]
Read More →FEMA tours South Shore Beach, other hard-hit places
TIVERTON, LITTLE COMPTON — With power restored to all but a few Tiverton and Little Compton households by the end of last week, officials in the two communities turned to damage assessment. It wasn’t pretty. Hurricane Sandy reduced Little Compton’s South Shore Beach to cobble and rocks, and little or no sand. Just last spring, [...]
Read More →Ahead of Sandy, new plants take root at Allins Cove
More than 150 new plants around Allins Cove will be put to test this week. About a dozen volunteers spent Saturday morning planting switchgrass, Virginia rose and goldenrod along Byway Road as Hurricane Sandy barreled towards the Eastern seaboard. The planting initiative wasn’t directly tied to the storm but part of the effort is aimed [...]
Read More →Sandy and surfers: Victory at Sea!
New England Surf (NESURF.com) which posts the most comprehensive surfing condition forecast around, predicts “Victory at sea” surfing conditions on Tuesday for Little Compton, Westport and beyond. South coast waves are forecast to begin rising later Saturday to large and very large Sunday into Monday, then ‘Victory at sea’ on Tuesday, and fading ‘giant’ on [...]
Read More →Region takes notice of young rowers
East Bay Rowing’s newly formed competitive youth team has competed with success in several local regattas this fall, including the New Bedford Chase, Textile River Regatta in Lowell, Mass., and New England Junior Regional Championship in Worcester, Mass. The team, comprised of both a novice junior women’s 8 boat and novice junior men’s 4 boat, [...]
Read More →Bottom fishing great for beginning anglers,
Bottom fishing for fluke (summer flounder), black sea bass, scup and tautog this time of year can be fun for the entire family. This type of fishing is not stressful, learning how to set the hook can be learned in minutes and it doesn’t take a lot of skill to catch a fish. Bottom fishing [...]
Read More →Fire damages boats at Pirate Cove Marina in Portsmouth
PORTSMOUTH — Fire caused significant damage to two boats docked at Portsmouth’s Pirate Cove Marina Tuesday night. Marina crews towed boats on either side of the burning boats to safety. The blaze was reported by 911 calls shortly at 7:57 p.m.. Portsmouth Fire Captain Mike O’Brien said. Crews from Portsmouth, assisted by Tiverton, Bristol and the [...]
Read More →Wiggle is everything when it comes to bottom fish
Jigging continues to gain popularity with fishermen who target bottom fish like fluke and tautog as well as striped bass and tuna that might be anywhere in the water column. I attended the Rhode Island Saltwater Anglers Association (RISAA) monthly seminar last week and one of the topics was vertical jigging for bass and tuna. [...]
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