Newport area is on fire!!

[bart]

Anyone fishing the area tonight deserved a good fish. CRANKIN' out of the SW.

[bassballer]

Originally Posted by bart

Anyone fishing the area tonight deserved a good fish. CRANKIN' out of the SW.

You got that right
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[goosefish]

Blew up fast yesterday. One minute it was blowing 5 kts the next minute it was puffing up to 30 kts.

[Cool Beans]

Yep, a friend and I were fishing from Pier 2 on the navy base for Tog and he almost got blown in the water a few times when the wind picked up and blew alot of sand and small gravel into our faces. He lost his footing and luckily ended up taking a hard "sit down" onto the cement edge of the pier and not in the water. all we caught were 2 tiny fish about 4 inches long.

We had a boat reserved from the base earlier in the day (before the wind picked up) and luckily we checked the weather report and decided against taking that lil 19 footer and 40 hp outboard into that gale. It could have been a bad day.

[piemma]

Originally Posted by goosefish

Blew up fast yesterday. One minute it was blowing 5 kts the next minute it was puffing up to 30 kts.

We had a couple of gusts over 50MPH up here in the NW hills.

[Sea Flat]

My .02, in no way was Duke41's post specific enough to be considered a spot burn. It was a vague general area that I think some people on here would appreciate just as a starting point or reference as to where they may find fish the next time they go out.

[Clammer]

TX Duke ya put me right on them ><><><>

[hq2]

I think the overall question of spot burning needs to be addressed. It
might help if the moderators (you guys reading this?) would post some kind of general guidelines for posting reports. I think in general it would work if we could separate spots into "public" and "private".
Certain areas are very well known, and it isn't really news if people say there are fish there; it's public information, usually on the fishing reports anyway. My list would include, from north to south:

Merrimack River Mouth
Southern End of Plum Island
Boston Harbor, including Deer Island Rip and Faun Bar
North and South Rivers
Duxbury
The Canal
Westport
Mouth of Naragansett Bay

Before everyone instantly says "that includes just about everything!" I would like to point out that each of those areas is actually quite large, and specific site info (like, where in Duxbury Bay?) would not be posted, just general locations.

On the private side are large numbers of great locations, rocks, rips, wrecks, etc. which are not well known and which would clearly be compromised if discussed publicly. I personally have a couple of spots no way I'm posting about, and I don't want anyone else posting about them either. Does this make any sense to people?