This is normally the best time of the year to surf fish the Rhode Island shoreline. In any other year, everyday from mid fall to really cold weather stripers and blues would be blitzing bait up and down the shoreline. While migrating south and fattening up for the winter, stripers and blues of all sizes would be everywhere. You'd see fishermen with binoculars scanning the horizon and up and down the shoreline looking for signs of fish. Splashes or birds getting there fill as fish from underneath push bait to the surface.
This year has been worse than disappointing. There is very little bait around which means very little fish. I've gone down a couple times from Jamestown to Narragansett fishing multiple spots with very little results. My friend Dave has been going a lot. He has gotten a couple big fish, but the numbers are nowhere near normal. There are about 2-3 weeks left depending on the weather where fishing could improve. Maybe the large schools are still north of us and will be down to RI beaches this week. Lets keep our fingers crossed.
Happy Halloween and lets hope the Patriots make Favre wish he stayed home!!!
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