May 4th 2010
 

There are decent fish about.

9 fish 29" to 35". All released. All on a 4" Yuzori swimmer with pinched barbs and a single tail hook. School was all 28" to 36" fish.

right on time....

Looked like a beautiful morning on the bay.

DZ

Indeed it was. Flat a$$ calm.

Good to hear it Paul. I'm thinking the new moon on 5/14 will launch everything real good in terms of the bigger stuff. I'm fired up.

Who's going to play golf with the missus now that the fish are here?

Thank god she just joined a league.

I did some livelining but the fish were too small to take a big pogie. I agree the New Moon will bring the big girls.

PAULIE ;;

lockjaw later on .we could see but not catch ..................................... Denis put us on our own ..but you needed what they wanted / when they wanted & how they wanted .................. it was far from FAC / when we were fishing .............. got in 2 minutes before the storm .that,s awesome ///cuz I,m usually 2 minutes too late or don,t get in @ all :fishin:

Fished with Goosefish today. He took a largemouth that I would say was 6 plus pounds :humpty:

:grins:

Nice work Paul ... although I am a bit jealous ... pics would be nice though

:drool: Pissaaa!

Andy, I gotta put a camera in the boat!

Attaboy, Paul....:kewl:

Glad to hear you ran into pogies, too

Guess you missed the storm. I headed to the end of the street around the time a boat went down off Conimicut. I didn't see it or know about it at the time but I did see the squall coming though, big chop out of nowhere and sheets of rain. Water over their transom, swamped, and they scrambled up the lighthouse.

WARWICK — It was still fairly sunny when Richard Martin, out for an afternoon of fishing with his son and daughter and two of their teenage friends, decided to tie his 16-foot boat to the side of Conimicut Point light in Narragansett Bay.
He felt it would be a safe place to be if the weather took a turn.
And turn it did. Between 4 and 5 p.m., Martin and the four teens who had been fishing for tautog for about an hour faced a storm front moving in.
“Dark rain clouds came in. I didn’t take it seriously until it was too late,” Martin recounted later. As the waves picked up, Martin realized the bow of his boat should have been facing into the wind, but he couldn’t get the boat around. “The waves were crashing into the back of the boat.”
For a brief moment, Martin, 39, a painter by trade, his son Richard, 17, daughter Brittney, 15, both students at Veterans Memorial High School, and their two friends, Sara Mills, 17, and Drew Wagner, 18, considered making a fast run for the shore, but decided to stay where they were.
“Thank God, we did,” Martin says.
With the wind increasing, the five climbed up a ladder at the side of the lighthouse, and were barely able to hold on. “It felt like we were going to be blown away.”
The door to the lighthouse was locked, but they broke the lock and found refuge inside. It was then that Martin’s wife, Nicole, got a frantic cell-phone call from her husband asking her to call 911. “I was very scared,” she said later.
The Warwick Fire Department got the call first, and as it was sending a boat, a Coast Guard vessel at Castle Hill and boats from Cranston and East Providence were activated as well.
Just after 5 p.m., Martin said, the storm was gone, but so was his boat.
Warwick rescue workers picked up the five and brought them back to where they had set out for their afternoon of fishing, the boat ramp at Oakland Beach.
“I just bought the boat last year,” Martin said of his sunken vessel. “But I’m so glad that we all got out safely. Tying up next to the lighthouse was the best decision we could have made. If we were out in the open water, I don’t know what would have happened.” Nicole said three hours after the incident that she was still shaking.

I am either in the middle of the night or early morning. This time of year I am on the water by 4 and off by 8 so I missed all the action. Clammer was out at that time but I think he was way upriver.

NICE SOWBelly, Goose!!!
:claps: :claps: :claps: :claps:

glad to hear that there was NO loss of life,
boats can be replaced,,,,,,,schmart move!!

S $%^&*( HAPPENS WHEN Ya a NCHOR FROM THE STERN ;;;


JohnR
I saw a guy at the end of your street 2 days ago fishing clams ...... I saw him catch a bass , just a little short for his supper