Capt. Gip Sisson's blog
August 27th, 2008
INSHORE:
The bass bite is slowly improving around the waters of Narragansett Bay. The fall run is right around the corner and the cool nights we have been having will certinly get the fish moving around. The bite at Block Island has also improved with many nice fish comming back to the docks.
Fluke fishing is still worth going but you have to fish deep. Try and find some live snapper blues or anchovies and you will have a much better shot at finding some big fish.
Scup and sea bass fishing has been very good. A friend fished MV last weekend and hammered huge sea bass. The bite was unreal and he was using a single bucktail jig.
OFFSHORE:
8-5-2008
INSHORE:
The weather has been nice and many fisherman have been taking advantage of it. We found fishing this week to be good- not great. The water temp from the bay, out to the canyons is HOT. The bass are active in the early morning hours as well as the evening. During the day the bite has been deep. The fluke fishing has bee very good with nice fish coming over the rails. Fisherman out of Point Judith have been doing well all along the South facing beaches as well as the bay fisherman. People have been scoring nice size fish just north of Dutch Island, Austin's Hollow, Fort Adams, and Mackerel Cove. Find a slight drop off and make sure the boat is moving. If you are catching skates, its a sure tell sign that the boat is sitting in one spot. Fluke are an aggressive species and if the bait is not moving away from them, the bite will turn off dramatically.
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Bluefin are here!
July 27th, 2008-
INSHORE:
Last weeks weather kept most people close to shore. Dodging the thunderstorms fisherman were rewarded with nice size striped bass from the shores of Block Island, Point Judith, and Watch Hill. The North Rip at Block Island has produced numerous fish as well as the Southwest Corner. For your best chance at a nice fish, try at night with eels or live scup around the waters of Watch Hill.
The fishing around Newport has been spotty. We managed to get out once last week and found a few bass but fish but they seemed to move quickly and it was very hard to get a bait to them without the bluefish finding it first. The surf fisherman and the boats throwing plugs and eels in the shallows are doing very well in the early morning hours.
The fluke fishing was red hot in the bay last week before all of the rain that moved through. The fish were found in the deeper water from 60-60 feet. All of the South facing beaches have been scoring nice size fluke as well.
Bluefish can be found in numbers just about everywhere you look. They were in a crazy frenzy on bait in Wickford Harbor last week. If the bait stays, the fish will not go far and you will have a shot at them just about every morning and evening.
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Fishing Report 7-21-2008
Inshore:
The summer weather pattern has set in and the water temps have been steadily rising. The larger striped bass have pushed out of the bay and people have found them in abundance around the cooler waters of Block Island. Congratulations must go out to Peter Vican, he broke the RI state record with a 75.4 pound striped bass this past week. The best bet for the bigger fish will be in the early morning hours or at night. If you must fish in the heat of the daytime, locate some deep water structure and get your bait or lure as close to the bottom as possible.
The fluke fishing has been excellent this past week. The fishing has been great right in front of Fort Adams in Newport, Butterball Beach, and Seal Rock. The secret to fluke fishing is boat movement and fresh bait.
The scup fishing has been excellent and they make great bass bait. While the size limit seems a bit large for fishing for stripers, a big fish has no problem swallowing them. I like to hook them through the nose and send them down on a 3-way rig on all of my favorite bass locations.
Offshore:
The shark fishing has remained excellent but I'm expecting it to cool off as the water temps continue to rise. The fishing has been consistant to the East with a few sporadic reports of sbft around. Everyone has been saying that things should bust wide open anytime now.
Fishing Report 7-11-2008
July 11th, 2008-
INSHORE:
Fishing this week has been very good with the fish moving towards the mouth of the bay. Best bets for large striped bass will be along the shore front in the early morning, evening, and dusk hours. During the middle of the day, we are finding the fish in deeper water from 40-60ft. We are also finding that they have become a little harder to catch and have to wait them out until it turns on and they decide it is feeding time. When they do feed it has been excellent. There is no shortage of bait with all of the silversides and menhaden around.
The fluke fishing has still been very good and if you have a chance to net some silversides, they make great fluke bait. If your lucky enough to fish them alive you will do very well, however if you can't, salt them down and freeze them. This is the time of year when some monsters are caught so be ready for just about anything. A few fish over 10lbs were caught over on the beaches near Point Judith/Charlestown area. They are fishing from 45-60 feet.
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Fishing Report: 6/25/08
Submitted by Capt. Gip Sisson on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 15:12.June 25th, 2008-
Narragansett Bay fishing is improving with the menhaden starting to push South from Providence. The water temp in the upper bay has reached the point where the bait will start searching for cooler water. We managed a few trips this week and fished places like the North end of Jamestown, Dutch Island, and Prudence Island this week and found fish from 15-40lbs. These fish were in shallow water from 10-30ft. Live menhaden was the trick as you could not keep a bait water with out a bass sniffing it out within minutes.
The fluke fishing is still improving and is the best it has been this year. There are big fish around with many reports of fish over 10lbs. These fish will start moving into water between 30-45 feet and will feed aggressively at the peak flow of the tidal movement. Lands End, Butterball Beach, Baileys Beach, are all hot spots this time of year.
Bluefish have been in the bay and in force. If you want to target these fish, find structure like pilings, reefs, and rips. The fish will forage around these areas and are relentless when it comes to feeding time. They will hit just about anything. Try throwing a few plugs around the Newport Bridge pilings and see what happens! If you don't get any action on one piling, move to another. I like to fish the first few pilings on the Jamestown side.
