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| This hefty schoolie was landed yesterday on a bucktail jig. Jigs are your most effective lures in the daytime right now. |
The schoolie glut just continues with unprecedented numbers of fish for this time of year along the RI oceanfront. This past week was one of the best in terms of numbers of fish this year for me. Favorable conditions helped with warm weather and west and southwest winds.
I am finding fish in multiple places both in the daytime and at night. The common thread here is that most of them are small, running 12 to 20 inches on average. I had some hefty fish this week that went up around 25 inches, but no keepers, even when fishing after dark. Many of the larger schoolies came after dark.
Jigs continue to rule in the daytime with both bucktail jigs and Cocahoes on jigheads catching most of the fish. The clueless daytime crowd who are casting big plugs like big poppers, large swimmers and needlefish are catching nothing. At night is a different story with Slug-gos and slowly moving swimmers catching the larger fish.
This hot schoolie fishing shows no sign of slowing and with warm water and warm weather, we could see a couple of more weeks of solid action. Who knows? At this time of year it can be millions one day and totally gone the next.
