The fishing shows we tend to see coming out of Florida and the Bahamas showcase the amazing inshore sight casting opportunities they have. This past summer I was fishing in Rhode Island and the tide was basically run out. Fishing at my usual spots had slowed down, so I decided to try fishing way inside a sandy bay where you generally only see kite boarders and kayaks. I ended up having a ball sight casting to small striped bass, sea robins and porgies. This was a lesson in how trying something new, even in your backyard, can change everything you thought you knew about that area. The other great benefit about looking for new opportunities close to home is that it’s a great way to stay away from other boats on busy days.
So the moral of this story is too shake off your stale habits and start to prospect not only new fishing areas but new tactics too.
I have fished this area my whole life and I’ve never seen porgies in schools in shallow water the way they were when I got this one, together in a group of twenty or thirty chasing bait. I have traditionally caught them on the bottom while fluke fishing or around structure or edges where the bottom contour changes rapidly. They are a great fight on a light rod. “The Narragansett Permit”
These small stripers were all a similar size but did not seem to stay in a cohesive school. They were moving back and forth across the sand and preferred a small soft plastic bouncing on the bottom. I was using a white Albie snax on a weighted hook.
The owner of the local tackle shop thought I had lost my mind when I told him I had spent the afternoon casting to sea robins, a species that is looked at as a trash fish. I was walking out the door and he called “good luck with the sea robins.”
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