9:55 AM Thu, May 24, 2007 | Permalink
By Tom Meade  Email this author | Email this entry |
Bass are moving on to South County's reefs, says Ron Mouchon of Breachway Bait & Tackle. Steve Travisono phoned from his boat this morning to say that he caught bass while fluke fishing.
Fluke fishing has been very good from Green Hill to Carpenter's Beach, said Mouchon. This week, he has weighed in six fish over 5-pounds apiece. On the Frances Fleet of boats, one angler caught a nine-pounder yesterday. There were lots of limits.
Ed Lombardo says the worm emergence has been slow on Ninigret Pond, but it improved last night, and more warm weather should bring more worms to the surface.
Ed sent this note:
"A week ago, I had something very surprising happen to me. I was fishing with my good friend, Everett Thornton, on Ninigret Pond. While getting ready, Everett couldn't get his spool off his reel. He wanted to change his line from an intermediate to a full floating line. The spool with the intermediate line just would not come off the reel. We could not change spools. Everett would have to fish with this intermediate line and make do. We left and took a good walk and found worms hatching in good numbers. I started fishing with my floating line system and Everett with his intermediate line. I was taking fish and Everett was having a harder time of it. I told Everett to use my rod and I used his outfit. I would cast to rising fish with the intermediate system and as soon as the fly hit the water I immediately started stripping in line with a long slow strip. I would do this for at least the first 20 to 25 feet, and then to keep the line and fly from hitting bottom I started bringing or stripping in the fly very fast. It turned out that I would take fish both on the first series of retrieve, (long and slow) and at the end of the retrieve very fast. I believe that the fish would take the fly for an emerging natural coming up from the bottom. I have never used an intermediate fly line before for this hatch. It turned out as a great learning experience."
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Dad still outfishing his son!
My Dad and I have been fishing Narragansett Bay for as long as I can remember. The past few years the bass bite has really turned on Memorial Day weekend. This morning we met at the dock at 4:30am. Left the dock in search of pogies and by 5:01am had 24 in the livewell. Seeing as though I had to be in work for 8am we didn't have a lot of time to make it count. So we headed out towards Ohio Ledge. Upon arrival I missed a fish. Moments later my dad's yellow good luck rod went off. He set the hook and held on. The first initial run was about 75 yards. After a good fight that lasted about 10 minutes the fish came over the rail. A 28.8 lb striper! In short order my Dad boated another bass just under 20lbs while I went on to miss 4 fish in a row. What can I say, somedays you have it and somedays you don't. Finally I landed about a 17lb bass before heading back to the dock. We were in by 7am! Not a bad day!
Not bad at all. Thanks for the story, Kevin.
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