Friday, March 27, 2015

Please Report Fish Kills as the Heavy Ice Recedes.

Please e-mail me at waynewnri@yahoo.com as they are discovered after the heavy ice recedes.

This could be very valuable information for setting future creel limits by the Dem information public hearings which I attend and for a closer look at dam control water levels at each man made pond which is 99% of everything in New England. Some years new gate keeper volunteers have to learn the proper water levels to maintain.  P.S. Also if you discover any large Whitetail Deer or Wild Turkey kills also.

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

RI DEM Rules " One 28 inch striper bass a day for 2015'

After numerous public hearings and testimony, e-mails and a partition RI DEM Director Janet Coit has made her final ruling and went along with our reciprocal New England states, Mass. Conn. New York, NH, No. Carolina with a one 28 inch striper bass limit per day in 2015. The federal government wanting a 31% reduction of the harvest and then the RI Marine Fisheries Council, an advisory board to the DEM, submitted a reduction plan last month that called for one fish a day (28 in) for recreational fishermen and 2 fish (32 in) a day for "for hire" 65 member RI Charter Association charter boats.
 Tuesday March 17, 2015 Director Janet Coit, who had the final say and then had the courage to go with the same creel limit as the other New England states to go with the one fish limit 28 inch recreational for ALL fishermen. A hats off to all who sent letters, phone calls and hundreds of a organized e-mail program to the DEM director and newly elected Governor Gina Raimondo to sway the decision for ALL recreational fishermen for the protection of the striper bass for future generations to enjoy.
  The charter boats will have to work a little harder this season and split the day with some fluke or sea bass or blue fish fishing to fill up the coolers for the fishers who still are not mandated to purchase a RI Salt Water License like the rest of the shore anglers do now.
 The southern New England Recreational fishing industry generates over 200 million dollars in revenue and has many special interest groups working the state house hallways.
  We almost lost the striper bass species by bad management in the past and now with a watch dog angler fraternity the species will have a much better chance of surviving.
  Wayne Gauvin Barber

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Thousands of Acres in Maine Preserved with Mount Baker Purchase | ActionHub

Thousands of Acres in Maine Preserved with Mount Baker Purchase | ActionHub

Monster Northern Pike Caught in the Berkshires !

Photo and info source on Massachusetts Wildlife Facebook Share.
Matthew Magni fishing with friend Doug Faits in the Berkshires of Massachusetts fell 4 pounds short of the current State record with this great Northern Pike. 31 pounds, 50 inches long with a 23 inch girth, weighed, photo and released. Fiberglass reproduction mount is ordered. After a ten minute arm wrestling affair with the mighty fish it was landed unharmed at 10:30 am at the center of the Solunar table for the day. Certainly a Gold Pin in the Massachusetts Awards program for fishers.
Congratulations from the "Outdoor Scene" Nation

Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department Honors Key Fish Culture Volunteers : The Outdoor Wire

Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department Honors Key Fish Culture Volunteers : The Outdoor Wire


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NH Public Hearing April 8 On Proposal To Ban Chocolate As Bear Bait, Reduce Moose Lottery Permits : The Outdoor Wire

NH Public Hearing April 8 On Proposal To Ban Chocolate As Bear Bait, Reduce Moose Lottery Permits : The Outdoor Wire

Florida Biologists Tally Record 6,063 Manatees During Statewide Count : The Outdoor Wire

Florida Biologists Tally Record 6,063 Manatees During Statewide Count : The Outdoor Wire
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Suspected Avian Cholera Outbreak Claims at Least 2,000 Migrating Snow Geese in Upper Snake Region : The Outdoor Wire

Suspected Avian Cholera Outbreak Claims at Least 2,000 Migrating Snow Geese in Upper Snake Region : The Outdoor Wire

Monday, March 16, 2015

Black Bears are Moving !

This Picture shows 4 hungry bears on the move March 4, 2015 around Route 4 in Unionville, Conn. and were taken by Susan Adkins. and posted on the Facebook as a share.
These two pictures Feb. 22, 2015 were from Ray Arruda's on Main Street,Tiverton,R.I. near the Fall River Mass. Border.


Saturday, March 14, 2015

First Fresh Stripers Should Arrive About April 18th

Did you ever see such a series of full moons as we have had these past 6 months ?
 
I can't remember a time when we had 6 full moons in a row with brilliant, clear nights at the time of fullness. First came the Harvest Moon in October, with a whole series of nights when it seemed to fill the sky with radiance. Then came the Hunter's Moon in November, almost as brilliant and prolonged. December's full moon, the Beaver Moon, was equally brilliant though somewhat less prolonged.
In January we had the full moon which the Indians called the Wolf Moon, with just enough snow on the ground to make a full week of nights so bright that only the biggest stars were visible.
The weather gods then changed the snow fall for the remainder of our New England winter with the February full moon called the Snow Moon. The March full moon named the Worm Moon produced some outstanding howling by the male coyotes looking for a mate and I cannot wait to witness the April full moon entitled the Pink Moon.
 
This brings us to our prediction of the first fresh Striper Bass of the 2015 season appearing about April 18th on the New Moon between 10am and 12 am at the East Wall in Narragansett Bay, R.I.
 
We all have our special moonlight memories. One of mine is of a autumn moon that seemed twice as big as the sun when it rose, and it was a special coppery yellow such as I have seldom seen. I saw it many years ago, but the memory holds on, not because of a special incident but because of the moon itself. In fact I watched the moon all alone, and I sat on a hilltop for several hours in the moonlight overlooking the Cape Cod Canal. It was a rather special moon, but it was doubly special in the way it cast its glittering beams on the water. I was listening to a country radio station and started singing along with the ballad and then I reali
zed that I was singing to the moon. Strange memory, but poignant and beautiful. Maybe it was the night that made me feel I had a special ownership of the moon.