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Bluefish Video

I had a wedding to attend in Newport, Rhode Island. The ceremony took place on the lawn of a sprawling mansion. The lawn overlooked a huge span of water. I was in tears as the bride and groom exchanged their vows and looked lovingly into each others eyes. I was in tears because as I stood there with my tuxedo on and surrounded by decadance, the water was exploding with bait and fish. Seriously, there was acres of birds dive bombing into the water and Bluefish were slaughtering baitfish for as far as my eyes could see. When the ceremony ended, I grabbed my cell phone and called some friends. "Dude, this is insanity you gotta get down here." Fast forward to 5am the following morning. Jesse shows up and we were casting into the busting and blitzing Bluefish within minutes. We spent some time on shore and then we rented a kyak. We chased some pods of fish around and fly fished to them from the kyak, but we mostly used the kyak for transportation purposes. We would paddle out to various rock ledges a little ways offshore and cast our flies into huge schools of Bluefish. At one point towards the end of the day, the action seemed to fade out a bit. So, we got in the car and started scouting the

shoreline. Jesse said, "Yo, I think I just saw a ton of birds in that little cove. Not sure if there was any fish under them." I replied, "Well, lets go check it out." We parked the car and walked over the bank into the cove and we could not believe our eyes. The Bluefish were so thick, they were litterally busting at our feet. I caught a bunch of fish until I snapped my rod in 2 places. Jesse polished off the evening casting into the massive pods of fish and hooking some great fighters and jumpers. The sun went down and we could still here the water boiling with fish as we walked off the beach. It was truly an epic day for Bluefishing on the Rhode Island coast. There is just something so cool about seeing such predatory fish tear through schools of helpless baitfish. I love casting my fly into the mix and watching the Bluefish fight for it. I have been fishing for Bluefish in the Rhode Island waters ever since I was a little kid. I would hate for a summer of my life to pass without at least one Rhode Island Bluefish experience. It was great fly fishing with you Jesse. I hope you appreciate Rhode Island and its fishery as much as I do. It is a great place and although its the smallest state in the USA, it certainly produces some big fish and lots of them.