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Learning more than fishing

1:30 PM Fri, Feb 29, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Tom Meade    Email

A new program is teaching Chariho Middle School students about entomology and ecology while they develop fine motor skills and a sense of rhythm. It’s......

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Go west for ice pike

10:21 AM Wed, Feb 27, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Tom Meade    Email

Scott Frazier and a toothy pike Rhode Island has had virtually no safe ice this season, but western Massachusetts is cold enough for ice......

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Mass. bass show this weekend

8:24 AM Tue, Feb 26, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Tom Meade    Email

The Massachusetts Striped Bass Association presents its annual Sport Fishing Expo this weekend at a new location, the Sally Blair Ames Sports Complex at Stonehill......

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Rhode Island Sound: spring fishing is best

1:57 PM Fri, Feb 22, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Tom Meade    Email

Anglers planning a fishing vacation should mark the calendar for last two weeks of May and the first two weeks of June. That’s the time......

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Striper Surf Day is coming

8:44 AM Wed, Feb 20, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Tom Meade    Email

Mark your calendar for Mar. 8 when Pat Abate will present an all-star line-up of experts for Striper Surf Day at Rivers End Tackle in......

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Another RISAA double header

8:48 AM Tue, Feb 19, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Tom Meade    Email

Capt. Jack Riley will lead off a double-header fishing seminar with a program on catching bluefin tuna at the next meeting of the Rhode Island......

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Southern fish magnet comes north

11:54 AM Sun, Feb 17, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Tom Meade    Email

"We will be fishing more with Popping Corks this season, especially in the early part of the season," writes Jim White, skipper of the charter......

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The eagles have landed

7:13 AM Fri, Feb 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Tom Meade    Email

The largest winter gathering of eagles on the east coast is arriving on the shores of the Connecticut River near the town of Essex, about......

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Look to eastern Long Island Sound for stripers

6:05 AM Thu, Feb 14, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Tom Meade    Email

STONINGTON, Conn. – Anglers will continue to find trophy striped bass in the waters from Watch Hill, Rhode Island to the mouth of the Connecticut......

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Fluke cuts are coming

1:50 PM Fri, Feb 08, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Tom Meade    Email

Coastal fishing regulators have established a coast-wide limit for summer flounder. Now it’s up to state regulators to establish a recreational-fishing season and limits on......

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Scientists say stripers are well

1:02 PM Thu, Feb 07, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Tom Meade    Email

Scientists who study striped bass have good news for government officials who regulate fishing for stripers. Conservation measures are working. A benchmark striper study, recently......

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RFA heading here

11:12 AM Wed, Feb 06, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Tom Meade    Email

The Recreational Fishing Alliance (RFA), a political powerhouse, is establishing a branch in Rhode Island. James A. Donofrio, executive director of the group, drove from......

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Light-tackle, surf fishing show

1:33 PM Sat, Feb 02, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Tom Meade    Email

The Saltwater Edge has scheduled its annual show for next Saturday with an all-star line-up of fishing experts. They're not professional seminar presenters. They're hard-core......

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Catching a winter cod

9:29 AM Fri, Feb 01, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Tom Meade    Email

Captain Mike at the Frances Fleet reports that it was a successful week on the cod grounds. Last weekend, the boat sailed with only a......

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