Rhode Island Fishing
Charter Calendar and Reports
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This Fishing Calendar
will help you determine what Species you may wish to target on your
Rhode Island Fun Fishing Trip.
The fishing
calendar in
Rhode Island starts in April and the last fishing excursion occurs
sometime in November.
Unfortunately Mother Nature has a
lot to say about the calendar, too. We would go fishing year
round in Rhode Island if the weather would allow for it. There
are plenty of holdover stripers in the local salt ponds and rivers
that we could target for light tackle fishing charters but its also nice not to have to freeze your
butt off catching them. What we have compiled below is
based on what typically occurs for weather in a given year.
April in Rhode Island begins with the recreational Tautog season opening on
the 15th. We begin fishing for them as we have commercial
licenses and its an excuse to find where they are and show that the
fish are there. We can take people out on charters for these
fish.
Sometimes we can go fishing for stripers in the salt ponds and
rivers, and can even catch keepers and take them, since bass season
never closes. It all depends on the weather.
May 1st the recreational Tautog season really gets going and we
take out charters to target these fish. There is no problem
finding them at this point and these are great fighting fish, a lot
of fun to catch.
Sometime in May Striped Bass will show up. Naturally
the first ones are schoolies with a few larger ones but still great
fun on light tackle. We never know exactly when they will show
up and typically we won't schedule a Striper trip unless we have a
reasonable expectation of the fish being around.
May 1st is when the Flounder season begins and we can run
charters targeting this species. Flounder is one of the best
eating fish we can catch in these waters, and is relatively easy to
target.
June is when the striper fishing really begins to heat up.
Once the bait is mature enough they begin to come out of the salt
ponds and the fish can go on feeding frenzies that last for hours
during the mornings. This is when we can see bass feeding on
the surface for long periods of time and sight cast to them with
plugs and soft plastics. In addition, the flounder fishing
really begins to heat up. There can be up to a two-week period
of mass schools of bait on the surface being smashed by Bass for
hours at a time. All of June is closed to Totaug
fishing. This is when to fish for blues in Rhode Island, as
they start showing up during the month, but they'll really be in by
late June or July. On June 12th the charter boat scup
season begins and we can target scup and sea bass.
July Fishing
is also pretty hot, and this is one of
our busiest times. We have Bass everywhere, flounder fishing
is getting close to its peak, Bluefish have shown up in great
numbers, and the sun is still not getting too high in the sky until
the end of the month. Recreational Totaug fishing reopens this
month, though we don't usually get calls for this type of trip.
We begin to see schools of false albacore and sometimes other tunas
in close and we can target them with light tackle in our smaller
boat, using spinning outfits or fly rods.
August is definitely our busiest month. Its not
unusual for us to be fishing every single day. During this
month it is important to leave very early when targeting bass for
the best success. There are usually plenty of marauding
Bluefish in gigantic schools, and Flounder fishing reaches a peak
during this month and is extremely productive. We see schools
of false albacore and sometimes other tunas in close and we can
target them with light tackle in our smaller boat, using spinning
outfits or fly rods.
September is also a great month for fishing.
The water is cooling and the sun is lower in the sky so we begin to see
more of the surface action we like so much, bass and blues smashing
large schools of bait. Flounder fishing slows down quite
noticeably in the second week and the season actually closes this month.
October
is another good time for fishing. Bass and Blues are still
around and feeding on large schools of bait found on the surface
along the South shore or holding on structure. Toward the end
of the month Tautog fishing gets very hot, it is not at all unusual
to reach our limits on Tautog for every trip in this month.
November is good for Tautog fishing. Sometimes the
weather is a problem but we still get good days and catch plenty of
Tautog in this month.
See the Latest Fish Pictures.
Fishing Reports:
September 5, 2008. There are still plenty of Striped Bass
around, captain Chris sailed with a 2-passenger light tackle Bass
trip and caught 17 stripers and 14 bluefish in a half day trip. Check
out the latest photos. Bass fishing will continue through the
end of October.
August 28, 2008. There are still flounder around although
they will be moving on sometime in September, and there are plenty
of Bass and bluefish around to bend the rods and give you a great
time. Soon the fish will come back into the near-shore coastal
waters as things cool down during September, we should see birds and
bait with schools of Stripers and Blues all over them along the
south shore. It's some of the most exciting fishing of the
season.
August 17, 2008. We are having a great deal of success on
all our Bass trips, in most cases limiting out on keeper fish.
Trips on August 15, 16,and 17th limited out and all included trophy
size fish (25lb, 31lb, 37lb, 41lb), the fishing could not be much
better than it is right now.
August 14, 2008. Captain Chris sailed on a south shore
bass trip and caught more than twice their limit in keeper bass and
also caught many very large bluefish. We watched a 25lb
and 33lb bass both swallow topwater plugs only 15 feet from the boat
both at the same time!!! It was an incredible trip. Overcast
contributed to making it a great fishing experience.
August 13, 2008. Captain Chris and Captain Earl sailed on
a full day Block Island bass trip and caught their limit in both
bass and bluefish. Fishing is excellent right now.
August 11, 2008. Captain Chris sailed on a Bass trip along
the South shore and put his clients on 40 bass up to 30 lbs and 10
Bluefish in a half day trip. This trip limited out twice
over.
August 10, 2008. Captain Earl sailed on a Block Island
bass trip and caught 45 Bass and 80 bluefish on a full day trip,
limiting out on Bass.
August 10, 2008. Captain Chris sailed on a half day Bass
trip and his customers caught 27 bass with many keepers limiting out
more than twice over. 50 Bluefish were also caught.
August 4, 2008. Captain Chris and Captain Earl Sailed on a
Bass/Blues Flounder combo trip and caught 18 bass, 50 bluefish and
31 flounder. Fishing is just crazy right now.
July 28, 2008. Captain Chris sailed on a Bass/Blues/fluke
combo trip and caught 10 stripers including a 25lb and 31lb fish, 27
bluefish and 25 flounder in a half day trip.
July 26, 2008. Captain Chris and Earl sailed on a full day
Bass trip and we caught 15 bass including a 30 pounder, 60 bluefish
and 30 flounder for a very full day of fishing.
July 23, 2008. Captain Chris sailed on a Mako light
tackle trip for bass and caught 32 bass, 2 bluefish, and 15
flounder.
July 22, 2008. Captain Chris sailed on a Mako light
tackle trip for bass and caught 29 bass, including a 44 lb. trophy
fish as well as 3 fish over 20 lbs. for a total of 11 keepers.
We could only keep 6 fish and limited out. We went on to catch
7 keeper flounder out of 37. It was a great day of fishing.
July 21, 2008. Captain Chris and Captain Earl sailed on
a half day bass trip in the overcast and fog and the fish were on
the attack like kamikaze fliers. At the end of the trip we
boated 43 bass including 17 keepers and had to throw back 5 fish
because we were limited out. It was a great day.
July 19, 2008. Captain Chris and Earl sailed on a full
day flounder trip with Tom and Brian Duffy. By the end of the
trip 125 flounder had come over the railing, it was an outstanding
day of fluking.
July 17, 2008. Captain Chris and Captain Earl sailed on
a flounder trip and caught 75 fish including 14 keepers for 3
gallons of fillets. It was a excellent trip.
July 15, 2008. Captain Chris sailed on a bass/flounder
trip and found nothing but weed all over the south shore, so he took
the client out to Block Island which saved the day. 8 bass up
to 34lbs and many bluefish were caught including some dogfish (there
are thousands of them out at Block Island right now). We
finished the day with a hour's flounder fishing and caught 28 fish
including 5 keepers.
July 10, 2008. Captain Chris sailed on a half day
bass/flounder trip along the south shore and caught 13 bass, 6
bluefish and 30 flounder. Fishing is just fantastic
right now. South shore fishing has never been better.
July 9, 2008. Captain Chris and Captain Earl sailed on
a full day flounder trip and caught 107 fish. It was an
excellent day of flounder fishing--our best yet!
July 8, 2008. Captain Chris sailed on a light tackle bass
trip and got 30 bass and 15 bluefish along the south shore in a half
day trip. Captain Earl sailed on a flounder trip and caught 38
flounder. The fishing is just great.
July 6, 2008. Captain Chris and Earl sailed this day on
a bass trip and caught 8 big bass and 4 bluefish then went on to
catch another 20 flounder all in a half day trip. All the Bass
and Blues were taken on light tackle with plugs and soft plastic
lures, no trolling was involved.
July 9, 2008. Captain Chris and Captain Earl sailed on
a full day flounder trip and caught 107 fish. It was an
excellent day of flounder fishing--our best yet!
July 8, 2008. Captain Chris sailed on a light tackle bass
trip and got 30 bass and 15 bluefish along the south shore in a half
day trip. Captain Earl sailed on a flounder trip and caught 38
flounder. The fishing is just great.
July 6, 2008. Captain Chris and Earl sailed this day on
a bass trip and caught 8 big bass and 4 bluefish then went on to
catch another 20 flounder all in a half day trip. All the Bass
and Blues were taken on light tackle with plugs and soft plastic
lures, no trolling was involved.
June 23, 2008. Captain Chris and Earl sailed with a 3
person Light tackle charter and milited out by 8:00am in the
morning, catching 8 total Bass and 4 bluefish including a 22lb bass
and a giant 15lb blufish, al taken on topwater plugs. We then
went on to catch 14 flounder in the remaining hour including a 24"
long doormat fluke, with a total of 6 keepers.
June 22, 2008. Captain Chris sailed with Zig and
Zach and found some very nice bass including a 30lb fish that young
Zach brought in by himself with no assistance from anyone else (see
photo under latest 2008 photos). We then went on to
hammer the fluke and came in with 7 nice keeper fish out of a total
of 27 fish caught.
June 21, 2008. Captain Chris sailed with Tom Duffy and
company and caught 15 bluefish on topwater plugs then went on to
catch 30 flounder including 8 keeper fish, with 2 gallons of
flounder fillets.
June 19, 2008. Captain Chris sailed on a
flounder charter with 6 anglers and caught 43 total fish with 18
keepers. It was an excellent day of fluking.
June 18, 2008. Captain Chris and Captain Earl sailed
on a flounder trip by themselves and caught 50lbs of flounder.
The flounder fishing is really heating up!
June 15th, 2008. Captain Chris sailed on a
Bass/Flounder trip and had to work hard to get a nice 30lb bass
and 14 flounder, captain Earl sailed on a Flounder trip and
caught 28 fish.
June 12, 2008. Captain Chris and Captain Earl
sailed on a full day light tackle Bass trip on the adventure,
with topwater morning action we caught 29 bass with 10 keepers
and limited out on bass, then went inshore for flounder and
caught 14 more fish. The bass fishing is hot right now, we
have a light tackle bass trip available this Sunday and
conditions are very good for a great day fishing, with plenty of
tide and overcast all morning.
June 10, 2008. Captain Chris sailed today with friends
captain Greg Snow and captain Peter Alerie and had another great
day of fishing, catching 41 bass and 10 flounder, including many
bass on the fly rod. The fish were just all over, a large
group of stripers have shown up at Block Island and the fishing
is excellent. This fishing won't last, once they
settle in for the summer we won't see this kind of blitzing
again till the fall.
June 9, 2008. Captain Chris sailed on a half
day bass trip today. Captain Chris and his clients, Chris
Fletcher and George Donella, counted that at least 82 bass came
in the boat on this trip. It was a spectacular day
of fishing! 50 fish were taken with topwater plugs and 32
with soft plastic baits. We were busy the whole time
catching fish or positioning the boat. Now is the time to
book a light tackle trip on the Aces Wild boat.
This trip limited out many times over.
June 7, 2008. Captain Chris and Earl took out a group of 6
guys for a Bass/Blues/Flounder trip and caught 15 bass, 2 Bluefish
and 30 flounder, including a 37lb bass and two jumbo flounder.
June 6, 2008. Captain Chris took Waite and Jared out
for s a second trip this day and we got a total of 50 Stripers and 1
codfish, including 27 keeper bass, we limited out four times over.
Waite and Jared released all the Bass that were caught.
June 5, 2008. Captain Chris sailed this day with Waite and
Jared on a light tackle trip. We caught 22 Bass and 14
flounder on this trip, including 9 keeper Bass and a giant 24" long
flounder. We limited out and then some on this trip.
June 2, 2008. Captain Chris sailed on a
father and son trip for Bass, Blues, and flounder and caught 8
bass with 6 keepers, 4 bluefish, and 12 flounder. All the
Bass were taken using soft plastic lures.
May 25, 2008. Captain Chris sailed with a 1 person light
tackle trip and caught several bass including a 35 pounder and 12
flounder on a half day trip. The fishing is heating up!
May 11, 2008. Captain Chris and Captain Earl did a 2 hour
flounder trip to see if the fish were out there and caught a total
of 14 fluke including 3 fish over 20". The flounder are here!
There are plenty of school bass in Narragansett Bay, and some
small numbers of larger size fish have shown up. We will be
doing a recon bass trip very soon to see what is around in the South
shore area.
May 6, 2008. Schoolie stripers are in Narragansett bay,
fish up to 27" long have been taken by various fishing captains but
no keeper fish as of yet. It's still a little early for
stripers, even though we had a nice stretch of warm weather.
May 1, 2008. Captain Chris sailed on a tautog trip with 2
anglers and caught a total of 25 tautog with 5 keeper fish. We
stopped at the east gap on the way in to see if there were some
flounder and caught a nice 18" fish and had some bites, so the
flounder are arriving. Up to this point we have caught
149 Tautog during the spring season.
April 25, 2008. Captain Chris sailed on a Tautog trip with
2 anglers and caught a total of 35 fish with 7 keepers in a half day
of fishing.
April 24, 2008. Captain Chris sailed today with a 6 person
trip and we hammered the Tautog. A total of 36 fish were
boated of which 20 were keepers and 10 were over 7lbs including a
9.5lb fish.
April 23, 2008. Captain Chris and Captain Earl sailed to
the tautog grounds for an hour's fishing to see what was going on
there since they have a charter tomorrow (the 24th) and caught 14
fish in about an hour, including 8 keepers.
April 20, 2008. Our first charter of the year for Tautog.
We sailed this day and caught 14 tautog including 7 keeper fish.
April 18, 2008. Captain Chris and Earl sailed on their
second trip for tautog and caught over 19 fish total and limited out
on keepers, including 3 fish of 8-9lbs each. So the fish are
here, it's time to book. April 16, 2008. Captain Chris and Captain Earl sailed on
the first trip of the year to see if there are any Tautog out there.
After fishing for about an hour and a half we had three nice tautog
and managed to feed a few crabs to the others that we couldn't hook.
So the fish are there, and we will be going again on Friday April
18th.
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