Projo Fishing: HotBytes

Ray Boucher took this bass just before midnight Friday

Custom rod builder Ray Boucher was fishing the Narragansett shore with his brother-in-law, visiting from Ireland, Friday night.

Ray's first fish of the evening weighed no more than 3 pounds, and his second striper was an 8-pounder. He figured he'd take advantage of the schoolie bite, and put on one of the smallest eels in his bucket.

Two casts later, this brute hit the bait.

"I thought it was a sand shark, because I couldn't turn it," he remembers. The fish did give up at last. After measuring its length and girth, Ray estimated the weight at somewhere near 50 pounds.

"Billy Silvia of Can't Imagine Charters fishing with Mikey DaSilva landed four keeper stripers as wel as scup, sea bass ans bluefish yesterday," says David Henault of Ocean State Tackle. "This morning has been mostly blues so far

"Mike McCoy of Reel McCoy Charters ventured to Block Island yesterday and found bass fishing somewhat challenging with the fish scattered and the bite occassional.

"John, David and Paul Lemont went fishing for tuna at the Fairway Buoy and the Mudhole. They found and saw numerous tuna in the 60-pound range but could not get them to bite. They did, however, land bluefish on the cedar plugs they were trolling."

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