30-04-2009, 12:00 AM
[quote name='George' post='14611' date='Apr 28 2009, 11:59 AM']I was at the causeway bridge last night. For the first time this year, I can say I've seen squid in the water with my own eyes, but they were definitely not biting. They are here, but they're not yet hungry. They weren't crashing the bait either, but were just slowly swimming around the bait cloud that our lights had created. I did see a guy with a sabiki rig snag 2 of them. There was a ton of bait, and as a result, the herring were having a feeding frenzy all night.
Some guys were using sabiki rigs to catch herring. A word to the wise here. Catching and, more importantly, just possessing herring is illegal in Rhode Island (and Mass and CT as well). Nobody who loves to fish is happy about this, but most anglers and organizations such as RISAA support the ban as herring stocks have fallen to dangerously low levels. If you don't want to play by the rules, that's up to you, but I have seen DEM officers stop and check buckets on the bridge at least once within the last 2 years.
[url="http://www.dem.ri.gov/news/2006/pr/0322062.htm"]http://www.dem.ri.gov/news/2006/pr/0322062.htm[/url]
[url="http://www.risaa.org/newsletter/herringclose06.html"]http://www.risaa.org/newsletter/herringclose06.html[/url]
It'll be interesting to see what happens when we go to saltwater licenses next year.
Don't get me started on the fluke regs either. Anyone hear the latest for this season? There was supposed to be hearing on April 22 or so, but I haven't seen anything yet.[/quote]
yea i was at fort getty saw one swiming but i think i'm going to try the charter boat friday francesfleet 40
Some guys were using sabiki rigs to catch herring. A word to the wise here. Catching and, more importantly, just possessing herring is illegal in Rhode Island (and Mass and CT as well). Nobody who loves to fish is happy about this, but most anglers and organizations such as RISAA support the ban as herring stocks have fallen to dangerously low levels. If you don't want to play by the rules, that's up to you, but I have seen DEM officers stop and check buckets on the bridge at least once within the last 2 years.
[url="http://www.dem.ri.gov/news/2006/pr/0322062.htm"]http://www.dem.ri.gov/news/2006/pr/0322062.htm[/url]
[url="http://www.risaa.org/newsletter/herringclose06.html"]http://www.risaa.org/newsletter/herringclose06.html[/url]
It'll be interesting to see what happens when we go to saltwater licenses next year.
Don't get me started on the fluke regs either. Anyone hear the latest for this season? There was supposed to be hearing on April 22 or so, but I haven't seen anything yet.[/quote]
yea i was at fort getty saw one swiming but i think i'm going to try the charter boat friday francesfleet 40