RI report: 9/11/06

[Pete_G]

While they have been inconsistent, there's a lot of albies around RI now. Reports have come in from almost everywhere including fairly far North into Narragansett Bay. Anglers are catching a lot of fish on the days the fish are on the surface. Topwater plugs were the best bet on Saturday, metal was ignored. Some of the albies have been fairly large for around here, approaching 10 pounds. Lots of fun on fly rods or light tackle.

The Narragansett Bay albies seems to be a bit of a trend the last few years, while I almost always see or hear of a few around Prudence Island the numbers that have roamed that far or further into the Bay the past few years are much higher.

Water temps off Newport have been holding strong off of Newport at 66 degrees, but bait still seems to be a bit rare. It wouldn't surprise me if the bulk of the albies ran into the Bay to get to the bunker there.

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[RRabiner]

And how far north into the bay would you expect ?

[Pete_G]

They made it all the way to Barrington Beach last year, although not many.

Mid-bay had fishable numbers of them last year.

[basswipe]

Actually got into a small pod of schoolies today.The freakin wind was incredible but they seem to love it.I literally hooked in thirty 18-22" fish in less than an hour on a NE facing point.

[Frightnight]

What is the NE facing point?

[crazygoof]

A finger of land off the shorelinethat is oriented along a bearing of SW-NE with the water side tip to the northeast and the land base to the southwest.