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More on bass and blackfish

“A lot of school bass to 26 inches have invaded the mid-Bay,” writes Bill “Eelman” Nolan. “It’s as if someone turned on a switch. There are pods of bass breaking the surface just about everywhere. David Parrillo of Warwick has been scoring daily using various small topwater plugs. Also working well are white Storm shads and Cocahoe Minnows.” Kenny Ferrara of Ray’s Bait & Tackle recommends fishing Greenwich Bay, Sand Point, Pine Hill, Ohio Ledge and off Warwick Light.

Billy Silvia, skipper of the charter boat, Can’t Imagine, was catching tautog as large as 8 pounds this morning in the Tiverton Basin. He was chumming the fish in with grass shrimp and catching them with crabs on small jigs. Chris Ropoza of Ocean State Tackle caught five keeper-size tautog on clam worms and steamer necks Wednesday afternoon at Fort Wetherill. The fish would not take crabs, he said. The blackfish bite is improving in the Warren and Barrington Rivers, particularly near the American Tourister outlet, Littlefield said.

Steve McKenna fished Matunuck yesterday afternoon and had small stripers on just about every cast, Bill Nolan reports. Nolan said, “An all-white Cocahoe did the damage.” Thom Pelletier of Quaker Lane Bait & Tackle said there have been a few keepers among the schoolies at the Ocean Mist in Matunuck.

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