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Block Island North Rip Fishing Tactics
The RIP on the northern tip of Block Island can be a very productive fishing grounds, if you know when fish and what to use. I used to go there and catch very little or nothing, never thinking of it as a production site until I learned to fish it. Even after all these years I'm still learning how to fish it. There are a variety of ways to extract the fish, but in each case the conditions that work best for this fishery should follow. Pay attention to the tide and time of day and see if it detects a pattern that repeats itself. This is how it will improve in any area of fishing.
Trolling. I think that the best trolling writs when the tide is incoming and arrive around 6:30-7 a.m. as the tide comes in about an hour now. Then can troll wireline equipment with umbrellas or parachutes and catch bass and bluefish for about 3 to 4 hours until the tide begins to drop. I always troll against current depth of 70 feet to get over the hump at 40 feet, is very slow in the time it reaches the mark of 40 feet. Every time I go to connect in these conditions. If you do not connect, try to make more online. The current can be strong and if you are near the bottom is going to happen.
Adrift. Drifting is another method very productive, and works better on the outgoing tide. Best to arrive around 6:30 with the outgoing tide being at least an hour. May drift over the hump middle which is about 12 feet deep at the top. The use of soft plastics as the pearl of the storm 6 "shad swim, cast them out, let sink into the bottom, and using a jigging retrieve. Be ready, when you lift the bar, the fish will be there. If you feel a beat and hook no fish they work very slowly with a lot of short templates, like a wounded fish. This will bring more strikes. Drifting can be used anywhere along the length of the sandbar. Different platforms can be used, even live bait such as eels.
Topwater plugs are another good option, but they work with a flood of operation and during cloudy or foggy when the fish can not get a good look at the plug. They also work in the twilight of dawn, but not very safe to cross to the island in the dark unless you are a great web browser and there is no radar on the ship. It's no fun to finish on the bow of a ship being towed east or west of a large tugboat. Topwaters will work when near the raw water, after drifting out of the series will turn around for another pass.
Another useful technique when Rip is derived from the diamond jigging. For this to succeed, you need to be in deeper water, usually near the place sandbank outside where it is up to 48 feet or less. Also, this works best when the tide is running slowly, it gives the fish a chance to see and listen to the staff of the diamond. A minimum depth of diamond jigging would be 40 feet. The best conditions are in the early morning with the tide running slowly.
Keep your eyes open for any activity on the surface. If you see fish feeding, updrift ship's position and let the current bring cast range. Then cast to the fish and the work of its bid. Try to match what you can feed.
It is not always easy to use your finder fish in the North in a row. The current can sweep much more than the bottom, many of which can appear as icons of fish depth finder. So that makes a lot of fish does not always mean that the fish are there. During a "spring" tide (the largest tides occur when the sun and moon are on the same side of the earth) stream can be very strong. When the current approaches its maximum, it is often not good in the rip fishing because current causes the noise travels through the bottom structure at those speeds. This makes it more difficult for fish to find attractive, especially As in deeper water. Best to fish shortly after high tide or low these days and avoid the time in the mid-tide when the current is screaming.
About the Author
Earl Bell lives in RI during the summer. For more info on fishing Block Island visit: Rhode Island fishing charters website.
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