New RI State Fishing Pier Propopsal

[DZ]

The Newport Daily News reported yesterday that the Midway Pier site on Burma Road in Middletown has been listed as the top site for relocating the now defunct Jamestown Bridge Fishing Pier Proposal. DEM has endorsed the site.
The Midway site was listed as #1 of 22 different sites in RI.
What makes this site attractive is it is close to pristine water, has good fishing attributes and, the area has already been endorsed as a recreational fishing site in Aquidneck Island's West Side Plan.
If all goes well this will be where our new state fishing pier is built.
I have fished the area for many years. It offers great fishing. I used to fish the old navy owned wooden pier on the same site (since removed) and took many bass and bluefish from it along with mackeral, flounder, tog, and occasional bonita.

DZ

[basswipe]

Originally Posted by DZ

I have fished the area for many years. It offers great fishing. I used to fish the old navy owned wooden pier on the same site (since removed) and took many bass and bluefish from it along with mackeral, flounder, tog, and occasional bonita.

DZ

Fishing there brings back some truly great memories of fishing with my dad and mom(before she died).

I truly hope this happens.But this is something that will have to be policed by both the state and our fellow fisherman.I'd hate to see this become one of those places that resembles a landfill more than a fishing pier.

[Clammer]

OH BOy you lucky b #$%^&*()

BUt the garbage crew will FIU

Some serious fish swim around there // oh I forgot CLAMMER knows nothing

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by Clammer

OH BOy you lucky b #$%^&*()

BUt the garbage crew will FIU

Some serious fish swim around there // oh I forgot CLAMMER knows nothing

SHHHHH!!!!!!

[basswipe]

Use some kind of permit system.Say $5 for an annual permit for residents $20 for non and the "garbage crew" would be a non issue.

There's been big talk here in Portsmouth about getting Stone Bridge back into shape and making it a state designated fishing area again.I remember what that used to look like.The piles of garbage,diapers, feces,public urination.The only way to eliminate that is to issue non resident parking stickers for that area of Park Ave. and Stone Bridge and obviously free stickers to people who live there.

[chipwood]

There should'nt be a permit system to use the pier, it's a state pier. Kind of like the state fishing pier in Nwpt. They can't keep anyone out but they can prevent you from parking there. Nobody has learned anything. Upping the price of parking permits in Newport still has'nt prevented people from making a mess of the access sites.The people who litter want to fish as much as the law obiding fisherman. I've seen the numbers of people file out of vans that have the sticker and they definitely were'nt locals. I've also seen the car left parked illegally with the woman and the kids waiting for the man to come back. I've fished a spot for a couple of hours and when I come back they're still parked there. Right now Burma Rd offers great access. To me the parking lot they want to put up looks too small. The locals who know this area know what the parking situation already is down there. Let's just hope with the development of the west side that these people developing don't take away the parking where you want to park aspect away from Burma Rd. Keep your eye out on these 55yr and older developments and that O'neill guys developments. Sometimes these people that move to our Island like to change things around.

[chipwood]

By the way if you plan on bottom fishing from that pier, beware of all the old gear down there. You're gonna break off alot. The Daily Snooze said that the BlueGold Farm was an oyster farm. Wrong, it was a mussel farm. About 100 yards offshore you'll notice a bunch of floats. That's an oyster farm. Quonset Points grow there. The farm is expanding. The farm encompasses 15 acres. The acreage is'nt expanding just the number of lines supporting the oysters are.