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4 days ago | 
thefisherman.com | Dave Anderson |Tony DUrso |Jeff Sullivan
Kinked soft plastics don’t catch many fish, but there’s an easy way to fix them. Soft plastics are now “standard issue” in surf bags up and down the Striper Coast. Not unlike the plugs we cast, soft plastics have gotten bigger and bigger as garage operations grow sophisticated enough to create these long and large baits with professional results.
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1 week ago | 
thefisherman.com | Dave Anderson |Jim Hutchinson
On April 17th, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Senator Jack Reed, Governor Dan McKee, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM), Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC), the Town of Westerly, and Save The Bay announced the conservation of 7.31 acres of coastal land on Winnapaug Pond in Westerly.
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1 week ago | 
thefisherman.com | Dave Anderson |Matt Broderick
shockwaveseats.comShockwave is a Canadian company located in the rough Pacific Northwest and manufactures suspension seating for recreational, commercial and military grade use. Their products are popular in both the NASCAR circuit, as well as with the US Coast Guard, with over 4,500 seats installed on Coastie vessels patrolling US and International waters.
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2 weeks ago | 
thefisherman.com | Dave Anderson |Jim Hutchinson
The black sea bass has become one of the most popular saltwater fish among recreational fishermen throughout New England waters. Once thought of as a food fish that was almost exclusively targeted with bait, the sea bass has become big business for tackle shops and charters, with an explosion in popularity thanks to newer methods like slow pitch jigging that have proven to be effective and fun ways to target these aggressive feeders.
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2 weeks ago | 
thefisherman.com | Dave Anderson |Jim Hutchinson
The cold rain and snow is behind us and the saltwater season is about to kick off in a big way, luckily, Black Hall Outfitters (BHO) has you covered for whatever species you want to catch.
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2 weeks ago | 
thefisherman.com | Dave Anderson |Jim Hutchinson
The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) announces it will hold its annual Free Fishing Weekend Saturday, May 3, and Sunday, May 4. DEM invites Rhode Islanders and visitors alike to fish in the state’s freshwaters on both days for all species of freshwater fish without a fishing license, which costs $21 for residents and $38 for non-residents, or a trout conservation stamp, which costs $5.50. Visit the DEM website for a complete list of stocked waters.
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2 weeks ago | 
thefisherman.com | Dave Anderson |Jeff Sullivan |Tony DUrso
A kayak can teach you things about your surf spots that you can’t learn any other way. Last season I dipped my toe into the world of kayak fishing. I suppose I dipped more than just a toe, my ‘yak is fully outfitted and presents as a fishing machine, complete with lights and yes, a fishfinder. The first thing I learned is that while a fishfinder is a very helpful tool, I find that it helps me more when I’m using it to decide where not to fish.
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2 weeks ago | 
thefisherman.com | Dave Anderson |Matt Broderick
First of all, we all know what to expect when one of those blue boxes with the Shimano logo is placed into our hands, we expect a sleek design, we expect a buttery, effortless retrieve, we expect attention to detail and smooth perfection from the drag. And this is exactly what you get when you lift the lid of the Tranx 300B box. The mechanics of it are exactly what you want them to be.
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3 weeks ago | 
thefisherman.com | Dave Anderson |Jim Hutchinson
The Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee (MFAC) had a busy meeting back on March 27th, moving forward with new regulations that run the gamut from commercial conch and menhaden to whitetip sharks and yellowtail flounder. But while most of the minutes were focused on commercial fisheries, there were a few that stood out as being of particular interest to recreational anglers and readers of The Fisherman.
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3 weeks ago | 
thefisherman.com | Dave Anderson |Jim Hutchinson
Fisherman author, Jamie Golden grew up in the suburbs west of Boston, but he heard the siren song of the sea at a very young age. In his new book, Until the Next Tide: The Evolution of a Salty Dog, Jamie writes of his journey beginning as a young boy in the mid-1970s, when his family spent summers bouncing from his grandparents’ house on Cape Cod to visiting aunts and uncles on Cape Ann.
