Projo Fishing: HotBytes

July 2007 Archives


HotBytes audio: A junior champ shares her favorites

7:13 PM Mon, Jul 30, 2007 | | Comments (1)
By Mike McDermott    Email

Journal photo / Tom Meade Delainey Broggi Click here to listen to Tom Meade's latest audio report. Today, Tom talks with Delainey Broggi, Rhode......

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Light tackle action on Block Island

7:09 AM Mon, Jul 30, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Tom Meade    Email

"Wow, what a week," said Chris Willi in an email Sunday. "Great weather and fishing has kept all the fly rodders and light-tackle guys and......

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Canyons and reefs turn on

8:52 AM Fri, Jul 27, 2007 | | Comments (2)
By Tom Meade    Email

The waters from the Fish Tails to the Dip are holding yellowfin tuna between 55 and 100 pounds, with some larger bluefin and big-eye tuna......

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Summertime blues

10:53 AM Thu, Jul 26, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Tom Meade    Email

Ray Stachelek, skipper of Cast A Fly Charters reports: "Summertime, and the fishing is slow. "We managed seven school stripers, one scup, and one bluefish......

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Breachway bouillabaisse

2:35 PM Tue, Jul 24, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Tom Meade    Email

There's a whole stew pot of fish biting in or near Charlestown Breachway. This morning, scup and triggerfish were taking sandworms near high tide. As......

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Lower Bay surf slow, but boaters score

4:49 PM Thu, Jul 19, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Tom Meade    Email

Tim Clark of Wickford Rodworks reports: It is officially mid-summer, and the fishing has changed greatly in the past week or so. I have been......

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Offshore update

4:16 PM Tue, Jul 17, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Tom Meade    Email

Greg Mayer reports: I want to give you an update on a shark fishing trip that I took on my boat, the SEA HAG out......

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Bass bite in The Bay

3:56 PM Tue, Jul 17, 2007 | | Comments (1)
By Tom Meade    Email

Ricky Brooks, fishing with Billy Silvia, skipper of the charter boat Can't Imagine, caught two bass in the high 40-pound range and two in the......

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Bass biting at Block Island

10:12 AM Mon, Jul 16, 2007 | | Comments (1)
By Tom Meade    Email

Shore fishermen were catching plenty of schoolies, with some larger fish mixed among them, in the channel to New Harbor over the weekend, said Scott......

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Block Island for fly fishing

3:48 PM Fri, Jul 13, 2007 | | Comments (1)
By Tom Meade    Email

Thursday evening, Chris Willi of Block Island Fishworks reported: The fishing has been good overall with a couple of very slow days mixed in. A......

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HotBytes audio: A crab to catch stripers

1:35 PM Fri, Jul 13, 2007 | | Comments (1)
By Mike McDermott    Email

Click here to listen to Tom Meade's latest edition of HotBytes audio. Today, Tom talks with Chuck Wilkinson, inventor of an unusual lure that he......

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Large shark, small reel

9:02 AM Tue, Jul 10, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Tom Meade    Email

A 336-pound thresher shark hit the bait on the lightest rig aboard Hot Reels over the weekend, and it took Shawn DeCastro five hours to......

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Sunday's bite

6:11 PM Sun, Jul 08, 2007 | | Comments (3)
By Tom Meade    Email

Mike McGaw reports: "Ohio Ledge is still holding some bass although in smaller numbers and smaller fish. Fished the change of tides 7/8 PM and......

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On and off action

4:59 PM Thu, Jul 05, 2007 | | Comments (1)
By Tom Meade    Email

"Striper fishing is good one day, dismal the next as the thermometer rises and falls," writes Ray Stachelek, skipper of the charter boat Cast A......

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Block Island's weekend action

8:41 AM Mon, Jul 02, 2007 | | Comments (2)
By Tom Meade    Email

Greg Dacey of Bedford, Mass. caught a 51.1-pound striped bass on the southwest corner of Block Island on Capt. Dave McCormick's charter boat, Irish......

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