breachways

[Johnny C]

If you go to your favorite breachway to catch the turn of the tide to drift plugs and there are two guys there tossing plugs into the breachway and not drifting just retreiving.
What do you do?
I said "hey guys, fish here often?"
They said "yea"
I said can we get a line up? A rotation?
They said " no"
We were here first and we want to fish right here.
I was super pissed.
If you guys Know a fat bald guy with no korkers, a huge beard, aviator glasses, a loud reel, and a dips*hit friend named Joey tell them to smarten up.
The best part was, I tried to explaine that if they drifted they could get there plugs to the fish we could see blitzing just out of casting range.
Some people are just stupid

[spence]

If there were only two you could have probably pushed both in

Just kidding of course, I wouldn't advocate violence of any sort

I don't know what you can really do in that situation, it's too bad you didn't have someone else with you as they probably wouldn't have been such a-holes

-spence

[Mr. Sandman]

I think "the rotation" was invented by the guy who showed up late...

I know a lot of you are fans of the "rotation" I have to say I don't like it. I feel if they were there first you have to wait until they leave.

Bottom line...Go fish some place else....that spot is taken

Fish at 2:00am on a Tue...you will have it all to yourself.



Actaully, I don't like fishing near ANYONE else so I avoid these places most of the time. I especially hate fishing near"a fat bald guy with no korkers, a huge beard, aviator glasses, a loud reel, and a dips*hit friend named Joey "... I can tell you A lot of RI'ers fit this description.

[Johnny C]

I was there at 2am on tuesday. And it was beautiful.

[Nebe]

been there

breachways suck

[green meanie]

just cast in and start getting all tangled up LOL.
the kids do it to me all the time

[cheferson]

Breachways suck. Ill only fish them at the beginning of the season and late night during the week. There is way to many morons there. ALmost had a 2.5 ounce popper attached to my face 2 casts in a row this spring by the mook 8 feet to my right . Id rather have an area all to my self and only catch one fish then fish a crowded breachway for a dozen fish.

[zacs]

HEY MAN, I Fit that descrition!!!

Well not exactly...

I'm not bald....

and I don't wear aviator glasses.....

and my reel isn't loud.....

and I don't have a friend named Joey....

But I am FAT, bearded and Korkerless...


Fat, bearded and korkerlss is no way to go through life son.

sorry for the O/T post, I am all jacked up on caffiene.

[ThrowingTimber]

You're on the wrong side of the breachway

[Mike P]

Hate to say it, but thems that get there first get to call the tune.

It's the same here---go down to a nice piece of structure and find a couple of chowderheads feeding clams to skates in a place you want to plug. Nothing you can do about it.

[Saltheart]

Believe it or not , less than 10 years ago you could have Quonny to your self on a June new moon. Now its a zoo. I don't fish the breacjways anymore because of it.

[Fish On]

Let me show my ignorance....what is a breachway? Is it something like a jetty?

[TBone]

More like two jetties forming a channel that more than likely leads to a salt pond or a marina.

[The Iceman 6]

Johhny C -

I feel your pain. Try during the week and the summer is a complete zoo, should be a "little better" around October...

[Mike P]

Originally posted by Fish On
Let me show my ignorance....what is a breachway? Is it something like a jetty?

It's Row Dylun-ese for "inlet"

[Johnny C]

if you fish a spot that is fished a particular way... fishing dirfts ect.... than do as the romans do.
It is kind of like showing up to your favorite surf spot, and having one surfer there, dictating where you can cast a line. The breachways are to be fished a specific way. The dipsh*ts That were fishing the day in question were just not paying attention. They would have caught the fish that were "just out of reach"if they listened to me. Instead, "joey"had no sack, and his fat azz friend insisted that he toss it as far as he could to reach fish 100 yrds. off the rocks. They sucked.
Anyhow.
red sox rule, F joey and the tubby aiviator wearing friend,
Johnny

[Crafty Angler]

Originally posted by Mr. Sandman
... I can tell you A lot of RI'ers fit this description.

Uh ohhhhh......

[zacs]

Overtime, an deep cut or inlet on the shore will become closed off due to linear flow of sand. First a spit forms, then the spit extends, and finally, the inlet is closed off, create a pond or "lagoon." Because we like to f with mother nature, which by the way I am not against, we will build a jetty that sticks out to stop the flow of sand, dredge the channel, and hence keep the breach into the pond/lagoon open. Hence the term, Breachway.

This is pretty much the geology of the entire south coast of RI.

_Z_

[RIROCKHOUND]

These particulat jetties don't stop the longshore transport of sand along the shoreline (at least not to a large extant; if they did large amounts of sand would build up on one side and not the other... look at historical photos this happens, but switches sides... Also sand goes inside the inlets during storms (a la Dredgine that will begin in late November in C-town pond)

The natural progression of tidal inlets is to stay open when there is enough exchange of water (tides and storm waves) and close during longer periods of fair weather; only to reopen during storms at the same or different location.

Basically these were installed in the 50's to keep the lagoons (ponds) open so that recreational and commercial boaters had access. If you want an idea of what it actually looked like before they installed the jetties, walk Moonstone beach after a storm (or backhoe) breaches Card's pond (much smaller scale than C-town et al. but a good proxie). The geology actually varies quite a bit more than people realize along the South shore..

Some interesting observations/notes.. Charlestown Breachway/Inlet is the only one of the south shore inlets that is not at the far eastern end of the barriers (against the rocky headland). At C-town this is the result of the underlying topography (likely an eroded glacial drumlin) that is"anchoring" the inlet here... with sea-level rise and landward migration of the barrier, the inlet will likely more East if left alone... I'm talking 100's to 1000's of years here, not our lifetime....
Also during storms or a large magnitude (a la Carol or 1938) Temporary inlets will open in the barriers (a big one is likely on the Misquamicut Barrier.. I have ideas where... ); forming as surge channels and then widening into inlets. My advisor and I have a debate about how long these would stay open if untouched, but regardless, the town of Westerly has a permit from the state to fil one if it opens... but my gut feeling says they would remain open for weeks - months maybe longer; but depends on storminess...

Ok, enough ranting and raving about Breachways and jetties... back to work...

As far as landing fish there... I carry a gaff and a length of rope, generally I go down and get them with out the gaff, but dont fish them very often....

[jim24]

don't like RI'ers....don't fish our state...want rotation.....(i won't say it)

[JohnR]

Originally posted by jim24
don't like RI'ers....don't fish our state...want rotation.....(i won't say it)

He was - til recently - a RhoeDyslundah
but he traded us in for a cheap, black, dog

[green meanie]

WAHHH dont come in our state either.

what are we in first grade
i have to fish RI i am working on beating the striper record there

Originally posted by jim24
don't like RI'ers....don't fish our state...want rotation.....(i won't say it)

[outfished]

I'm with Mr. Sandman on this one.

[CowHunter]

Funny how everyone is always fighting to fish the breachways...You will never see me there unless it is really nasty and nobody else is there...There are so many awesome places to fish close to the breachways...Besides, its to easy to fish there anyway...

[JHABS]

Cowhunter ,You hit the nail on the HEAD, Breachways

[Krispy]

Its easy to catch alot of small fish there, but sizable ones are another story I think.
HABS, whats all these stories I hear about you being a jetty rat in another life