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Block Island first

First-time bass anglers aboard L'il Toot

Block Island is the place to be for catching big bass.

"This picture was from last night's trip, drifting eels at the southwest corner of Block Island," said John Rainone, skipper of the charter boat, L'il Toot, yesterday. "It was the Volpe brothers and their wives' trip. The picture is of Heather with her first ever bass, a 50-inch, 43-pounder (on the boat scale). Her brother-in-law Dan caught his first ever bass too, a 49-inch, 42-pounder. They all caught keepers, and plenty of throwbacks."

Derek La Fazia said he and his wife fished live pogies in the upper Bay but never saw a bass.

Fishig slowed to a near halt on the reefs of South County yesterday, according to several anglers who stopped into Breachway Bait & Tackle in the afternoon.

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