There were only four boats on Ninigret Pond in Charlestown yesterday morning, but there were lots of blue crabs on the bottom and plenty of small bluefish on the surface. There are huge schools of snapper bluefish on the Barrington and Warren Rivers, and in just about every cove on the Bay this week. The fish are taking bits of squid suspended about 12 inches beneath a bobber. This is the time of year when catching is virtually guaranteed. A damaged heart long ago drove Donn DiBiasio to make a business of selling guns, and now it's forcing him to give it up.
Blues inshore, tuna offshore Fishing continues to be terrific, inshore and offshore.
A sophisticated new computer model designed by scientists at the University of Rhode Island to predict the intensity of hurricanes will be used by government storm trackers in the Atlantic this year. As scallop fishermen in the area were near bankrupt in the 1990s following the closure of prime scallop beds in the Atlantic Ocean, the fledgling School for Marine Science and Technology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth swung into action. Mi'kmaq fishermen set more lobster traps Tuesday in Miramichi Bay amid fears of another raid on their controversial fishery by non-native fishermen. It will be easier for Maine's lobster industry to get its product to market now that the Federal Aviation Administration has lifted a ban on cargo on passenger planes. The squirrel that sits high in an oak tree, throwing acorns down at me, will be chattering out of the other size of his muzzle if I catch him there after the small-game season opens Saturday.