Tuesday nights in RI

[Micropteris]

On Tuesday nights in RI from 6-10 pm we have a get-together with local fly fishers to tye flies and cast rods. It is primarily for Northeast saltwater but we do play with trout flies and techniques. We like to use traditional materials, patterns, and techniques that were developed for trout that have stood the test of time, to target saltwater species.

Have a rod that seems to difficult to cast compared to all your others? Bring it and we will try a bunch of different lines, tapers and weights to get it up to par. It doesn't matter how expensive it is or isn't.

Want to talk technique? Want to learn how to play with different casts such as speys and rolls with the rod you already own?

Want to learn how different colors interact within flies??? Want to learn some new patterns or how to tye some that are giving you trouble. Want to tye just bring a vice. Don't have a vice come any way, we'll find one for you to use.

It is not a club and there is no cost to come and play. It is just a group of local guys that love to share the sport they love. Come check us out.

URI's East Farm campus
Building 75
2150 Kingston Rd (route 108 )
Kingston RI, 02881

[NEfisherman33]

Im a sophmore at URI maybe ill drop by one of these nights.

[scotte303]

My son will be going to URI next year (fall 200 hopefully I will be spending a little time up there and maybe someone could direct to an area that has some trout fishing. Never did any salt water flyfishing but would love to do that as well.

[J Castwell]

Sounds great guys. Thanks for letting us all know about it. Good luck and keep it going; maybe host a 'Fish-In' out there too ?

[Micropteris]

We've got about four weeks left indoors then we hit the water every Tuesday evening.

Every Tuesday evening starting Mid-April is basically a "Fish-in". We go to different locations throughout the state. If you haven't noticed we got a small one, but we have over 400 miles of publically available shore line.
It's all shore based fishing and we are usually mobile traveling to numerous spots in a night. Sandy beaches, rocky beaches, tidal rivers, tidal creeks, salt ponds, piers, and docks.

This week we had a fellow faol'er teach us how to make furled leaders and even offered to lend his furling board to us to try; thanks Mister RIRed.

We worked with a few fishers that brought their rods to play with balance and loading to make salt water casting less physically demanding.

We also tied some clam worms and shrimp flies along with some baitfish patterns. We went over dropper rigs playing with split shots, lead tips, and floats with floating lines to get desired fishing depths with salt water and salmon streamers and flies for stripers just as you would with nymphs and streamers for trout.