Rhode Island fishing

[Corndog]

They could have been trying to get the fly.

This summer I was fishing a pool on the Flatbrook that had quite a few stockies in it. I was fishing a #22 BWO and a small bait fish took it and got hooked. As I was bringing it in a brownie took it. It was cross ways in it's mouth so he didn't get hooked. It was like all the trout in the pool went nuts and started trying to take it away from him. Eventually, another trout took it away and got hooked. That was the only time I fished with bait in the Fly Only zone.

Cdog

 

[cafriguy]

The clincher... they were not connected, I watched the gap expand and contract, they were chasing each other's tails... it was wild!

 

[JeffK]

Sounds like they were in mating mode. Wild bows spawn in the spring, but hatchery bows have been conditioned to spawn in the fall. The bigger fish stocked in the fall (brook, brown, or bow) always seem to have sex on the brain. The urge to breed is stronger than the urge to feed and those fish are a lot more interested in exchanging genes than in your fly.

This wet year has been odd. The bows started pairing up and digging redds the first week in September in the Pequest. A local guide who was scouting with me claimed to have never seen spawning bows before the third week in September before.

 

[riflyfish]

Six recently stocked rainbows came to net yesterday on the Wood at the check station. Although they were rising, floating leaves made fishing dry flies difficult with a snag on nearly every cast, so the old Wooley Bugger did the work. Love the way those rainbows leap. All released, so somebody else can test them again.

 

[riflyfish]

Still some rainbows in the Wood. Three 15 inch fish this morning.

 

[Ricky]

good work! buggers? olives? how did you get 'em?

 

[riflyfish]

Right, bead head black and maroon bugger. Got one small native brookie on a red ant, too.

 

[Trouser Trout]

Have any of you boobs ever fly fished this time of year off hte beach or rocks in Narragansett? Do I need a license? What would be some fly suggestions and what type of fish can I expect to find? Thank you boobs in advance for your help.

 

[Trout Nazi]

Have any of you boobs ever fly fished this time of year off hte beach or rocks in Narragansett? Do I need a license? What would be some fly suggestions and what type of fish can I expect to find? Thank you boobs in advance for your help.

Now you come back around, when you want information? You're cut off. Your punishment is to drink Narragansett Beer.

I'm heading that direction myself soon. Check the fishing reports with the local shops online to see if the stripers are around yet. In southern New England I usually use small sand eel patterns when the stripers are around. This year is wierd though, there are apparently still alot of fish down south.

 

[Trouser Trout]

Now you come back around, when you want information? You're cut off. Your punishment is to drink Narragansett Beer.

I'm heading that direction myself soon. Check the fishing reports with the local shops online to see if the stripers are around yet. In southern New England I usually use small sand eel patterns when the stripers are around. This year is wierd though, there are apparently still alot of fish down south.

I use to commute to Manhattan.... And in Penn Station there was a convenience store that sold narragansett and narragansett light for 60 cents a can.... I have had my share....

 

[Pete]

RE: License
RIDEM/Division of Fish & Wildlife- Recreational Saltwater Fishing License Index Page

 

[tomfly]

I am heading up to Newport in 2 weeks. I think the license is 10 bucks