tyler ware
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tyler ware, Glen Rock Reservour, Atlantic Ocean, Bass, Chain Pickeral, Fluke, Blue Fish, All summer
Hello Friends,
It has been quite a fun summer living in New England. It is no Chattavegas, but you gotta make the best of where you are. So I now live on a little lake called Glen Rock Res. in West Kingston RI, you can see in the photo of my hot tub that this little lake is right in the back yard. I get to fish every morning either from the back yard or I will go out in a canoe and make a few cast. When I 1st got up here it took me 3 full days before I even saw a fish, the lake is only about 6ft in the deepest part and there is lots of grass and pads. It was when I was reeling in the crappie jig very fast that I had a pickeral kill it. from this I thought that maybe a quick bait like a small crank would work and I was right. Caught a ton of pickeral on cranks before they stopped liking it, then I switched to weightless flukes and senkos, and then to roster tails. don't have any pics of the pickeral, but they are reaching 18" and some a littel longer. If you have never caught these fish it is very very fun, but they are slimmy and stinky, so I try not to touch them. Also they have some crazy teeth. The bass in the lake did not spawn until June, and during that 2 week time I was catching 2-5 bass a day, with the biggest being maybe 3lbs, some were spots actually.
So I have been trying to stripers all summer, but the ocean water here is 10F hotter than it was last year and the stripers have moved out very early, earliers than I learned to catch them, so I have had no luck with them. But I did hear of the blue fish moving in, and so last night I went out to try my luck. EVeryone I talked to said the blues were not there that day, but ask I walked the granite rocks out into the ocean I started seeing the boils. Well the blues were there, all you had to do is get a top water lure within 50ft of the boils and it was fish on. When a blue fish slams your bait and you set the hook, it is like setting the hook into a log, but then the log takes off. When the blue stopped, I would throw a buck tail and jig it on the bottom, that how I got the fluke. It was only about 12" and they have to be 18.5" to keep so it went back. A fluke is a flounder from what I can tell. The fishing is about to turn on up here in the ocean, so hopefully I will be able to send you all some photos. I am going out to the edge of the shelf in a few weeks with some people I met, hopefully we will get a big tuna or shark.
Miss you all
TW
Hello Friends,
It has been quite a fun summer living in New England. It is no Chattavegas, but you gotta make the best of where you are. So I now live on a little lake called Glen Rock Res. in West Kingston RI, you can see in the photo of my hot tub that this little lake is right in the back yard. I get to fish every morning either from the back yard or I will go out in a canoe and make a few cast. When I 1st got up here it took me 3 full days before I even saw a fish, the lake is only about 6ft in the deepest part and there is lots of grass and pads. It was when I was reeling in the crappie jig very fast that I had a pickeral kill it. from this I thought that maybe a quick bait like a small crank would work and I was right. Caught a ton of pickeral on cranks before they stopped liking it, then I switched to weightless flukes and senkos, and then to roster tails. don't have any pics of the pickeral, but they are reaching 18" and some a littel longer. If you have never caught these fish it is very very fun, but they are slimmy and stinky, so I try not to touch them. Also they have some crazy teeth. The bass in the lake did not spawn until June, and during that 2 week time I was catching 2-5 bass a day, with the biggest being maybe 3lbs, some were spots actually.
So I have been trying to stripers all summer, but the ocean water here is 10F hotter than it was last year and the stripers have moved out very early, earliers than I learned to catch them, so I have had no luck with them. But I did hear of the blue fish moving in, and so last night I went out to try my luck. EVeryone I talked to said the blues were not there that day, but ask I walked the granite rocks out into the ocean I started seeing the boils. Well the blues were there, all you had to do is get a top water lure within 50ft of the boils and it was fish on. When a blue fish slams your bait and you set the hook, it is like setting the hook into a log, but then the log takes off. When the blue stopped, I would throw a buck tail and jig it on the bottom, that how I got the fluke. It was only about 12" and they have to be 18.5" to keep so it went back. A fluke is a flounder from what I can tell. The fishing is about to turn on up here in the ocean, so hopefully I will be able to send you all some photos. I am going out to the edge of the shelf in a few weeks with some people I met, hopefully we will get a big tuna or shark.
Miss you all
TW
