Clay Head, Block Island, RI
Located at the northeast corner of Block Island, Clay Head offers action from spring through fall on a variety of species.
Hot Spots
Breezy Point Jetty
Breezy Point is the terminus of the Rockaway Peninsula.
Old Bare Shoal
Old Bare Shoal (38 56.843N / 75 13.703W) lies between the Green Can (38 57.004N / 75 15.008W) and Reef Site 5 (38 54.005N / 75 11.008W) on the Delaware side of the bay, rising from 48 feet in the Anchorage to 3 feet at the top before dropping back to 23 feet in the Broadkill Slough (38 54.933N / 75 13.043W).
Lower Connecticut River Stripers
Whether you get them coming or going, the lower stretch of the Connecticut River is a great spot to intercept that first cow striped bass of the season.
The South Wreck
Laying on a sandy lair just four miles dead south of Moriches Inlet in 95 feet of water is a mysterious steel schooner known as the Sea Wolf or better known by local divers and fishermen as the South Wreck.
Shepherd Lake
Shepherd Lake is tucked away among the mountains of northern Passaic County, the northern shoreline right on New York’s border in Ringwood State Park.
Connecticut’s Trout Parks
Looking for a place to fish on Opening Day? Why not give one of Connecticut’s 12 Trout Parks a try?
Smithtown Bay and Reef
Tucked between the LIPA Stacks and Cranes Neck in Long Island Sound, Smithtown Bay comes to life once the sand eels settle into the bay and head for the shoals for their annual spring spawn.
Rattlesnake
40 20.525 N / 73 54.141 Anglers all across the Garden State have been getting snake bit by one northern…
Execution Rock
In 1850 a light station was established on a rocky reef off of what is now known as Sands Point in the west end of Long Island Sound.
Tin Can Grounds
40.51.367 / 73.93.700 On January 3, 1944 the Bristle Class destroyer the USS Turner met its fate as a series…
England Banks
Legend has it that the England Banks were named as such by early skiff fishermen who launched their boats from the crashing surf; as they rowed fastidiously to the grounds roughly 2 to 3 miles offshore, the distance to get there seemed like they “were rowing to England.”
Coxes Ledge – Southern Section
With year-round cod action and summertime addition of shark, tuna and billfish, this is a highly-productive section of Southern New England.
Bug Light
For more than 135 years The Long Beach Bar Lighthouse, better known as Bug Light has steered sailors to safety from its location between Orient Harbor and Gardiner’s Bay, welcoming them to the protected waters of Peconic Bay.
Lake Hopatcong
As a kid growing up in the 1980s, no other event was looked upon with such fervor as ice fishing on Lake Hopatcong.
Coxes Ledge – Northern Section
A look at some of the fishy structure contained within the northern confines of Coxes Ledge.
