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Ahhhhh. I feel like a new man. I always do after a fly fishing trip to Rhode Island. Ever since I was born, I have spent the summers in Rhode Island. I chased the bluefish and striped bass from sun up until sundown. Every day, all day. The waters of Southern Rhode Island just feel like home. I have litterally spent thousands and thousand of hours on the Rhode Island waters, fishing for fun and commercial fishing for money on longliners, scallopers and draggers. The years have brought me here and there and to some of the most beautiful places in the world. However, nothing really compares to my home waters. It is cool to think that I still stand on the same rock that I stood on when I was 7 years old. I have changed but nothing else has. The tide still comes in and out, the same way it did then and the same way it will after I am gone. I had a great time fly fishing with myself, my wife and dan-l this weekend. I visited all my stomping grounds on foot and then dan-l took me out on his boat. I really appreciated that, especially since he had a late night of partying the night before. We lucked out though. As soon as Dan showed up with his boat, the rain stopped. The sun came out and we were immediately into the fish. The fish were on the smaller side and that is to be expected for the first run of spring fish. We didn’t care though. We chased them around and after a long winter a small fish felt just as good as a big fish. Well, not really, but you get the point. Black clousers seemed to do the trick and the wind was blowing pretty good, so 350 grain shooting head line worked for me. As soon as we stopped the boat at our first spot, the Stripers were rising all around us. Dan casted his fly and he was hooked up in an instant. We went back and forth for an hour or so and caught a bunch of fish. Then the sun came out and things died down. So, we called it quits and I brought my wife out to dinner for some lobster and steamers. Of course, I had a master plan. The lobster joint just happened to be right next to one of my favorite spots. So, I convinced her to take a few casts with me as the sun went down over the ocean. We caught a few fish, had a nice dinner and got a good night sleep. Soon enough, the Stripers will be in Maine and I won’t have to travel so far to get my salt water fly fishing fix. But, I probably still will because that’s what I like to do.
yo dan – i plugged my guitar and mic into my laptop and watched our video…the first song to come to mind was an old…old song that i love to cover – “Drunken Sailor” – I thought it was suitable considering it was a pretty late night for you the night before…So I recorded the vocals and rhythm in one track and then finger picked a solo on another track and it seemed to go good with the video…..i thought so anyway….i have always like this tune…mostly the lyrics….i suppose they are more relative to commercial fishing than sport fishing…but they work none the less. I don’t know any sport fisherman that would “Shave his belly with a rusty razor”…but I know many commercial fisherman who would in an instant……..good luck in mexico….hope you get your rooster fish. thanks again for bringing the boat down.
Great video Jeremy…even better tune.
Hard to believe you can do that in one take.
I am in awe of both your music and fishing prowess. 🙂
Sweet story and great song! Those lyrics are wicked, a perfect match for the saltwater experience. Can’t wait to get in the salt with you. Won’t be long……
Jeremy,
I had a blast, happy you called to let me know you were coming down. I was pretty tired though. But like I said though, in 1-2 weeks RI is going to explode with big fish. My Newport connection told me yesterday there were squid in the channel. That only means right behind them are the fluke, stripers, blues, etc…
By the way, I was so tired driving home I stopped to take a nap. Call me a day or 2 before you come down again. We should be able to find MUCH bigger fish.
Dan
Jeremy,
I had a blast, but was pretty tired from the night before. Think I only really woke up on my drive down there. It was great to get into some fish right away. Give me a call a day or 2 before you come down again so we can get hooked into some MUCH bigger fish.
The squid started showing yesterday in Newport, so it will be 1 – 2 weeks before we get into the big fish consistantly. I’ll make sure to get some video and picks of the fishing in Mexico. Decided to take my 9 and 10 wt. rods with my to see what I can catch from the boat and shore. There will definitely be a post once I get back from the trip.
Later,
Dan
What a Primer for what’s on the horizon for us here in Maine. Better yet, great tune. When I was knee high to a grasshopper I used to head into a bar my grandfather ran on commercial st called “the irish villiage pub.”
It was owned by a Lobsterman, and entreprenuer, Peter Kelley, and his wife.
Slammn’ St. Patty Day Celebrations and a great card game on sunday mornings. That’s how i cut my teeth on poker. watching the old man and my grandfather play cards with the locals.
That song takes me right back to that dank, dusky bar room with a haze of saturday evening smoke still settling on Sunday afternoon.
You knew when the longliners, draggers, and longshoreman came in because the first tune they’d play a-shore was that one.
Nice job with the picking too.
Gilly – Yeah – that song is old and so are the memories you mention – i have memories very similiar to that – but i think days like those are gone. now – the commercial fishing docks have turned into a kind of touristy icon – and the bars that surround them do not allow smoking and all of the patrons are dressed in kakis and polo shirts….the longshoreman don’t fit the “dress code”……i guess next they will outlaw drinking in the bars…in which case we will be left with a bunch of overpriced joints, with silicon yuppies, drinking smoothies, contemplating the ways to save the lobsters and complaining about the second hand smoke. Actually…kinda sounds like we are not far from that point now……People are funny really…It’s all extremes and very little balance….I kinda laugh when I read signs that say, “Save The Earth….” The Earth will be fine…the signs should say….”Save The People”…..I think it was George Carlin who said something like,”Only the human race could be so arrogant to think that they have the power to actually save the earth. The earth will rectify any flaws easily…and do away with us in an instant….One big meteor and we will be just like the Dinasours. Yet…we fool ourselves into thinking we can “”Save The Earth””.
NOW – I am not saying that we should litter and disrepect the earth…I am simply saying that it’s all about balance….and given the opportunity…I think the human race has a tendency to go to extremes.
Sorry for rambling….like i always do…but it’s sad, to me, that the dank, dusky, smoke filled bar rooms are vanishing….those were always the most fun…and the ones the seemed to have the best MUSIC!
Great take….rambling appreciated.
Hey Jeremy-Nice work. I loved the tune and the underwater shots.
Jason