Things I've learned this spring: not all river herring use fish ladders the way we'd like them to. Many of the fish swim right on past, don't use them at all. The fish ladder at Wakefield, RI. It's on the westside of town near the Chevy dealership. This ladder …
Nature
The sturgeon list.
The Atlantic sturgeon was recently listed under the Endangered Species Act. This hasn’t been creating much news--the Internet oddly silent. Atlantic sturgeon, like salmon and striped bass, live at sea but spawn in freshwater rivers. The species has been in …
Nice Eyes
The fish is a whiting. They're a small fish in the cod family. I don't think they look much like a codfish. Cod don't have teeth like these. Whiting, also called silver hake and frost fish, travel in large schools and tend to hug close to the bottom. Many a …
spring for weasels
It doesn’t have to be a mountain lion or a tiger shark—the shadow of a large predator moving along an edge. It doesn’t have to be a huge and beautiful manta ray jumping black against the sun. A person can be shocked by a meadow vole. On your knees in the backyard …
The Cuban Drop-off.
For some reason, I keep looking at this drop-off and trench. I'm taken by it. Sure it's only Google Earth. But I've heard young Columbus loved nothing more than a good map. On the map (see below) the drop-off is where the land ends and the deep sea begins. It's a …
Footprints Don’t Lie.
Originally published in The Fisherman Magazine, NE Edition: Issue #4, January 27, 2011 By John P. Lee I needed help. I wanted to catch a Rhode Island native brook trout. It’d been years since I targeted them. I understand that January is not the ideal month, and …
