What to throw this weekend in RI

[Sparfish]

I am a novice fisherman, I fish along the RI shore line. I could really use some advice. Should I use some rubber duckies or jigs off the beach (on the edge of some rocks) or throw some plugs into the surf off the breachway?

Any help or suggestions would be greatful as I am going out tomorrow night and Sunday morning.

[RIJIMMY]

Small bucktails, small plastic jigs like storms, 4-5” swimmers, flies
SHallow bars or points will be your best best. I hear that there are fish around the bways.
good luck

[Sparfish]

Thank you very much for your feedback!

[Saltheart]

Find some spots where bait and fish will be naturally coralled in by the SW wind that is driving them. There are lots of possibilities in RI. I think the best place right now is just at or a little beyond the line of breaking waves in the surf. Small jigs with tiny curltails or bait fish like Fin S or small shad bodies or small storm types , tossed into that SW wind should do it.

[blackeye]

4"pearl wildeye shad-or bunker color
1/2 oz leadhead with pearl or green cocoho minnow
tie #20 leader directly to you're plastic of choice with a perfection loop-they are a little leery of lots of hardware

[Sparfish]

Thank you all for your words of wisdom!

[bart]

small chicken scratch bombers

[blackeye]

Originally posted by bart
small chicken scratch bombers

lot easier to get one hook out of a schoolie than two sets of trebels bubba

[Christian]

olive 5" mambo minnow

[bart]

bent the barbs down, removed front hook......bubba

[Nebe]

A great spring time thing to throw is Joe Lyons Cocohoe Rig... its a 3/4 oz ball with a 1/4 bean head about 6 or 8 inches above the ball.... the thing is deadly-

[blackeye]

Originally posted by bart
bent the barbs down, removed front hook......bubba

my bad

[bart]

[Crafty Angler]

Ditto on Joe's rig - very nice for this time of year -

Or small Smilin' Bills or Upperman's (lima bean)w/ a grub-tail -

Or small Storm shads or the Calcutta shads if you can find them -

Or smal single hook Kastmasters or tins -

Have fun!

PS - Rattletraps - and the 5" olive or black/silver Mambos - are great too, but crush them barbs, ya don't wanna hurt the little buggas....

[basswipe]

Just got back from a short sunrise trip here in the Portsmouth area and got a couple 14"ers on a 1oz Kastmaster with single hook bucktail.
Pretty much what everybody else said.My problem is I get jammed up on using only a few different lures mainly Kastmasters
and Crippled Herrings,which are fine lures,but I would probably due better If I broadened my horizons.I'm a creature of habit and some habits are hard to break.
We'll see what tonight brings.Gonna the water HARD tonight.

[Homerun04]

Whatever you throw, make sure it is tied to light tackle. Nothing funner then going as light as possible this time of year, and nothing more ridiculous then going with a meat stick......just my opinion of course.