Fishing Report
River Rebel Report June 7, 8 & 9, 2008
Headed out last Saturday to Tiverton to where the bait and bass had been hanging and found nothing. Then we got some intel from another charter captain that he had found the bait and bass. So we headed farther north to Fall River and it was loaded with bait and bass and yes those pesky blue fish. There we landed several bass in the 15-20lb range and some blues. So it was another productive morning.
Saturday afternoon was the awards banquet for the West Bay Anglers tournament. We attended and Capt Randy ended up taking second place. Always the bridesmaid never the bride. There is always next year.
Out Sunday morning, there was no booked trip, to the same spot with the same results. Monday mornings party boarded the Rebel and off to Fall River we headed. There the bait was still loaded up and 2 nice bass were landed real quickly. Things got slow there for awhile but once the tide started to cooperate we landed 3 more nice fish and one 30 inch fish in about 30 minutes. Both guys onboard were psyched and it was time to head in for pictures and fish cleaning.
As of right now Monday is booked but surprisingly Saturday is open and
Fathers day booking had to be rescheduled so it is now open. Come on
take dad fishing!!!!
River Rebel Report June 3, 2008
I might have screwed up here is this weekend report Well we have been very busy and I fell behind on the reports, but there are plenty of bass in the bay along with the bait. Menhaden are loaded in the Providence river near Edgewood. Tiverton you could walk on the bait Saturday and Sunday with Ark Bait now making his sets there at the mouth of the river. River Rebel Charters took 2nd in the 15th annual Striper Marina Bass Tournament with a 30.8 pound Bass. First place was 31.8. pound bass out of 191 register anglers. Last year we took 1st and second. We took one trip to Sakonnet
Point Friday on a full day charter and brought home 12 keepers with
three weighing in at 6 lbs. lots of 19 inch fish. Mt Rock and Bear point
have been holding bass in the 20 pound range with YOYO being the way to
take them. I will try to catch up reports after today's trip.
River Rebel Report May 17 & 18, 2008
The rains for Saturday the rip was re-scheduled so Joe and I decided we would spend the day collecting bait for the upcoming charter trips and try to get the bait pen full of poggies. The heavy rains and north winds made for a slow start. We started in the area that has been very productive all week for both large striped bass up to 30lbs and poggies but on Friday the blues moved in and it showed, As the large schools of bait now seemed to be broken up and scattered and on the move. After some running we ended up in the basin and found the bait so thick the depth sounded was showing 19ft when we knew we were 40 ft of water. As we snagged poggies one other local charter boats made several drifts in the channel but we never seen anything come over the side while we were there. We did hear later that a couple of bass in the 20s were taken. We ended up with 48 live poggies for the pen and a 5 gallon bucket full for the freezer. The report over the radio and cell phones on the most part was that what had been a great week of bass fishing now seemed to slow up. The water temperature had dropped some and the tides are running higher with the moon.
Sundays schedule trip only had one passenger and the boat left at 0500. Capt Joe took the boat over to the area that had been productive all week and within minutes the live poggie was running for his life. Al missed the hook set and Joe hand over the second rod that he just put in the water and this time the hook was set. Al had been on the Rebel for about a half hour and already landed his first 18lb bass. Joe now having high expectations took the boat back around to start a second drift and the bite was over. There were a couple of other local charter captains on the same drift that reported to Joe that the bite was early and short. They searched several different areas before they called it a day but the angler went home happy. Even though the day wasn’t what was expected we believe that if you’re going to report the good days you need to report the days that weren’t that good. Fishing will pick up after this next front comes through. We still have some openings on our spilt shared charters call 401-253-9639.
River Rebel Charters May 15 & 16, 2008>
We have been keeping to ourselves in Mt Hope Bay using live bait and catching a limit of Bass on Thursday and Friday with some bass weighing in the low 30s. Friday morning the bluefish showed their ugly heads in the area we have been fishing but the bass still outnumber them. Thursday the bait didn’t show until late morning and Friday the bait was getting hammered hard by the Bass at 5AM. Wednesdays trip a lot of bait but small bass, fish big enough to cash it just not big enough to swallow. No trip schedule for Saturday unfortunately, just hoping the wind and moon don’t mess up my pattern.
Reports from the radio it appears that there are some good fish around the islands. The trick is getting the bait to cooperate. We still have some spots open for Split Shared trips. dates in June avail are 7, 8, 9, 13, 16, 20, 23, 26, 27.
River Rebel Charters May 9, 2008
This morning left the dock at 0600 with out a trip scheduled so I
figured I get out and look around. The wind was out of the north water
temp 56 degrees. Fifteen minutes after leaving the dock I came across
some menhaden and set up to snag a few for some up coming trips and as
the first one came to the boat a large bass was in tow of the bait. I
set up a live line rig and went back to snagging as I snagged the next
bait my live line was off and running. After a long 10 minute battle,
the first 30lb 40 inch fish of the year for the River Rebel was onboard.
I quickly hooked the next pogie up to the live line and off he went but
I dropped that fish which appeared to be in the same weight class as the
first. Now out of live bait I circled the boat back around my mark and
snagged my next bait when all the sudden the reel started screaming and
I landed a nice 36 inch fish.
The problem today was I would snag a pogie a bass would be ripping them
off the treble. It is now about 0700 and I can’t get a pogie to the boat
because of the bass so I switch over to a jig until I can relocate the
school of pogies which never appeared again but the bass kept blowing up
on the surface. White and blue and white worked the best for me today in
the 2 ounce class. I landed 7 bass in the 38 to 34 inch range and I
don’t know how many under size bass came to the boat. If you could get
the jig past the schoolies you would come up with a keeper size bass.
The wind shifted out of the east and the fish were still working but the
bigger fish seemed to have disappeared. So at 1000 called it a day.
River Rebel Charters April 26, 2008
Today was a good day for Tautog, largest 6lbs 2oz but everyone
caught fish. The wind was against the tide making it a little tougher to
get set just the way we wanted but when you got set the bite was on with
green crabs. After the tide change Captain Joe Bagwell thought he was
seen some schoolie striped bass near use so we made the move to play
with some stripers when we realized that we were in a large school of
menhaden, so the scramble was on to re-rig and get some fresh bait in
the freezer for the up coming run and chum for the shark trips. The bait
was plentiful and cooperated for several hours.
August 27th & 28th, 2007
The boat was out of service for warranty work. Next report should be Friday
8/31, I have a trip planned for MV on Thursday in the Bay on Saturday and either BI or MV on Tuesday.
Fishing report for August 26, 2007
The party that was rescheduled from Saturday because of high winds boarded the River Rebel at 0345 and we departed immediately for Martha’s Vineyard. The Capt had a little issue backing out from the dock when we struck a submerged item near the dock. It was discovered later in the day that while claming someone had rolled some rocks around and left them lying in the dockage area. After leaving the Kickemuit River the fog set in and travel became a little slower. Once outside the Sakonnet River passengers soon realized why we cancelled the trip from the day before as the seas still had not completely died down from the winds on Saturday. Once we arrived on the planned areas of fishing I hooked the first customer up with some live bait turned around to get the next customer set up and Wayne the first one in the water was hooked up and fighting a striped bass. Ryan’s father down from North Dakota just to try his hand at striped bass action was on but was having troubles setting the hook and missed his first. Ryan was now in the water and hooked up as I turned to land the first fish that Wayne was still fighting. Once landing the fish that was in the 25lb class of fish everyone was excited and hoping for a lot more. I now have Ryan still battling a fish and trying to get the other two lines back in the water. I then landed Ryan’s fish that was good 40 inch fish weighing in the low 30’s. We set up on the drift and off we go again with everyone hooking up but dropping a couple of fish. We followed the routine several times when we now had five bass onboard 2 in the 30 lb class, two in the high 20’s and one in the low 20’s. Now the dilemma was about to hit the group 5 fish onboard with 3 more fish being allowed Ryan and Wayne hooked up on two fish that fell in the high teens that asked that I release both fish because the way the action was going they would still have a great chance at landing several more fish. The next few drifts provided plenty of hook ups and dropped bass and several cut lines from blue fish that where now competing for the same bait because the tide was slowing down. We moved to several areas but we now had a very light SW wind and an out going tide and could not get a drift. I then made the call to head over to the Pigs at Cutty Hunk and try some chucking. We discovered that we were not the only boat with those same intentions there was several boats anchored in the area and one small fish was seen by my crew gong onboard one of the boats but the action was slow to say the least. We did manage
Back in the Sakonnet River there was several large schools blue fish busting up and boats chasing these schools between Fog land and Gould Island. I was having an issue with myself and trying to figure out what I could have done different so that Ryan’s father would have had the feel of “Bowing to the Cow” and catching his first large striped Bass. So as I approached the schools of blue fish out came one spin cast so he could go home the next day knowing what it feels like to hook a 7 or 8 pound Blue fish.
Fishing report for August 25, 2007
Charter trip cancelled due to forecasters calling on high winds the trip was planned for Martha’s Vineyard. Trip was rebooked for the next day
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