Projo Fishing: HotBytes

I took a walk at Misquamicut this morning, but left the fishing rod at home because it was so late.

Mistake.

There were fish on the surface, easily within casting distance at the Westerly Town Beach and Misquamicut State Beach. The fish at the state beach were a little too far out to identify, but the fish at the town beach were definitely blues, big blues. There were some small silversides and peanut bunker washed up on the sand.

The pods of fish kept popping up from 8:10 a.m. until 9:15 a.m., when I left.

Nothing appeared to be happening at the Weekapaug Breachway, although the beach had several bluefish racks, apparently from Friday night. Those fish would have ranged from 3 to 8 pounds.

Friday, I visited my friend, John Lake, on the Cape, and he said he's been catching bass on the Barnstable flats with Gulp crabs, made by Berkley. I also spoke with Jeff Northrup about fishing the Norwalk flats in Connecticut, and he's been catching stripers on Del's Merkin, a fly that mimics calico crabs.

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