Adventure Charters Succotash Road Jerusalem, Rhode Island 02879 401-359-1785 US Coast Guard Licensed & Insured

Fun Facts: the name Tautog is often misspelled  as Tataug, Totaug, or even Totog.  Originally an Indian name.  We fish for these. Also called Blackfish (not Black fish).

Squeteague is also an Indian name for weakfish (salt water trout)

Beavertail is the name given to the southernmost part of Jamestown.  We sometimes fish there.

Whale Rock got its name because it looked like a whale's back.  We sometimes fish here.

A party boat can take more than 6 passengers.

Bluefish

Rhode Island is often misspelled  as road or rohode.

Rhode Island Fishing Charters on the Light Tackle Boat Adventure

Enjoy light tackle charter fishing for Stripers, Flounder, or Totaug with father and son Earl and Chris Bell sailing from beautiful Jim’s Dock in Jerusalem, Rhode Island.

A guided RI sportfishing charter is one of the best  recreational vacation activities for your family when visiting the ocean state.

2008 Rhode Island fishing charters were our absolute best yet and Adventure Charters was very fortunate to have many happy clients during the season. It was our best ever in terms of number fish caught and numbers of trips we sailed on. Our new 6 passenger charter boat allowed us to focus heavily on light tackle fishing with plugs and soft plastic baits and thousands of striped bass, bluefish, and other species were caught. The new Adventure 2 vessel is very popular with both our existing customers and new clients. It has a huge cockpit area and even with 6 passengers and 2 crew no one is tripping over anyone else on board this boat. We are enjoying the 2009 fishing season.

We really appreciate the repeat business we had during the 2008 season, it helped very much to make it our best ever. We also want to thank those people who recommended us to others, that was also a big part of our 2008 season. We look forward to taking you all fishing again.

Rhode Island is known as the Ocean State, and with good reason:  there are over 400 miles of coastline.  It is also the home of Block Island, a famous destination for striper charters.  Many big bass are pulled out of the waters surrounding this island every year.  RI’s Narragansett shoreline is also good for bass and blues, and has many areas of rocky bottom that hold the hard-fighting tautog.  The South shore has many good areas holding a variety of species that our clients like to fish for.  Brenton Reef and the Newport area are also good hot spots.  If you want to read about the different types of fish, use the links on your left to explore the pages for stripers, bluefish, flounder, tautog, tuna, and sharks.  Whether you're learning to fish or an experienced fisherman we can accommodate you on a trip.

At the end of your trip we always fillet and clean your catch,  so you get some nice fresh fillets to take home and eat at the end of the day.  We can also hook you up with fresh Rhode Island lobster and quahogs at the dock--just ask about it.  The only fish we don’t clean is scup, because on those trips we can easily catch 200 fish, and it would take far too long to clean them, you wouldn't leave the boat until evening.

Dedication is important.  You can tell how good a fisherman is by how dedicated they are to the sport.  My dad and I are very avid fisherman; on our days off, we fish.  On our own trips we try out new rigs, fish new areas and old spots, and generally increase our knowledge and gain current information about where the fish are and what they will eat. This way we know where the current hot spots are.  It gives us a much better chance of finding fish for our clients.   We just love sportfishing RI!

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Page last Updated October 27, 2009. 

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This is our Rhode Island Fishing Reports and News section. 

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November 8, 2009 Tautog Report.  Captain Chris sailed with 6 anglers and they caught 70 Tautog with 26 keepers, and they were almost all really big fish 20" or more in length, with four fish over 7lbs and one tipping the scale at 10lbs.

November 3rd: 12lb Tautog.
This fish is 26 years old.
 

November 7, 2009.  Captain Chris sailed with 6 anglers and it was a slow day.  They caught 50 fish total with 15 keepers, the largest was 11lbs.  There were many small fish under 12" in length.

November 3, 2009 Tautog Report.  Captain Chris sailed with 2 anglers and caught 59 Tautog with 17 keepers, easily limiting out for the two anglers on board.  RP.

November 1, 2009 RI Report.  Captain Chris sailed with 3 anglers and caught 65 Tautog with 21 Keepers on a half day trip.  Tautog fishing is still good.  RP.

October 27, 2009 RI Report.  Captain Chris sailed with 4 anglers and caught 83 Tautog limiting out at 32 keepers for the trip.  RP.

October 21st 2009 RI Report.  Captain Chris sailed with one angler and caught 21 tautog with 16 keepers, limiting out in 2 hours of fishing.  RL.

October 20, 2009.  Captain Chris sailed with one angler today and in 3 hours of fishing they caught 12 Tautog and a bunch of scup with 8 keeper tautog.  RL

October 11, 2009 Report.  Captain Jim sailed with 2 anglers and caught 24 Tautog with 12 keepers.  The Tautog fishing is starting up now, book a trip if you want some delicious blackfish.

October 11, 2009.  Captain Chris sailed with 2 anglers and caught 12 bass with 6 keepers and 28 bluefish at Block Island. sun. CH.

October 9, 2009 Report.  Captain Chris sailed with 2 anglers and caught 10 bass, 19 bluefish and 2 giant bonito in a half day fishing trip at Block Island.  CH.

October 5, 2009.  Captain Chris sailed with 4 anglers and caught 26 bass with 16 keepers and 18 bluefish, which was twice the limit for bass.  The striper fishing is still good at Block Island. OC/sun.  CH.

October 4, 2009.  Captain Chris sailed with 6 anglers and caught 21 bass and 26 bluefish with 12 keepers. BI OC.  CH.

October 2, 2009.  Captain Chris sailed with 4 anglers and caught 11 bass and 14 bluefish in a half day trip at Block Island. BI sun.  CH.

September 4, 2009.  Captain Chris sailed with 4 anglers and caught 19 bass and 15 bluefish with 5 keepers and 12 flounder all in a half day trip. 

September 3, 2009.  Captain Chris sailed with one angler and they caught 15 bass, 12 bluefish and 3 flounder in a half day trip.

September 2, 2009.  Captain Chris sailed with 2 anglers and caught 5 bass and 34 bluefish with 4 keeper bass and many large 12-14lb blues which give an excellent fight.   There are tons of Bluefish around the island now.  R,LC, sun.

August 30, 2009.  Captain Chris sailed with the O'Connell family and caught 21 bass and 15 bluefish with 4 bass over 20lbs (25, 23, 22, 21) and 3 bass at 18lbs.  Several of the Bluefish were 14lb choppers and gave an excellent fight. It was a great trip.   Michaela and Carol both hooked and fought fish over 20lbs to the boat all on their own.  Daughter Christine hooked a ton of fish on soft plastics.  Another successful report.

August 27, 2009.  Captain Chris sailed with 5 anglers on an epic Bass trip.  We caught 51 bass and 34 bluefish for a total of 85 fish in a half day trip!  It was crazy fishing.  38 of the bass were keepers.

August 26, 2009.  Captain Chris sailed with 2 anglers and caught 19 bass and 35 bluefish including a 20lb bass and many 12-15lb bluefish, it was crazy with fish often flopping around on the deck of the boat.

August 25, 2009.  Captain Chris sailed with 3 anglers to the block and caught 32 bass and 19 bluefish in a half day trip, easily limiting out on bass for the trip.

August 24, 2009.  Captain Chris sailed with 4 anglers and caught 21 bass with 8 keepers and 7 bluefish, limiting out on bass for the trip.

August 22, 2009.   Despite the media nonsense about rough weather on this day, Captain Chris sailed with 4 anglers and found excellent conditions, catching 31 bass with 17 keepers which was more than twice the limit of what could be kept.

August 21, 2009.  Captain Chris sailed with 4 anglers and caught 25 bass and 4 bluefish with 20 keeper bass (which was 2.5 times our limit in bass), including 2 x 20lb fish and an 18lb fish.

August 20, 2009.  Captain Chris sailed with 4 anglers and caught 31 bass, 3 bluefish, and a false albacore.  There were 15 keeper bass including a 30lb and a 26lb fish.

August 18, 2009.  Captain Chris sailed with 2 anglers and caught 26 bass with 11 keepers (almost twice what we could actually keep), 2 false albacore and 2 bluefish during this trip.

August 17, 2009.  Captain Chris sailed with 3 anglers and caught 23 bass, 1 false albacore and 8 bluefish with 12 keeper bass, which was double the limit for bass, all in a half day trip.

August 14, 2009.  Captain Chris sailed with 2 anglers and caught 11 bass with 8 keepers and 18 bluefish all on light tackle with no trolling.  We have been sailing every day in August.

August 13, 2009.  Captain Earl sailed with 6 anglers and caught 17 bass with 12 keepers and 11 bluefish, limiting out on bass for the trip.

August 8, 2009.  Captain Chris and Earl sailed with 6 anglers on a full day trip to the Southwest side of Block Island and got 21 bass including 3 20lb fish, a 22lb striper and a 38lb striper as well as 13 bluefish.   We limited out on bass for this trip, and were throwing back keeper fish.

August 3, 2009.  Captain Chris and Earl sailed with 5 anglers and caught 12 bass and 7 bluefish with 7 keeper bass.

August 1, 2009.  Captain Chris and Earl sailed with four anglers and caught 25 bass with 16 keepers including a 36lb, a 22lb, and 2 - 20lb stripers.

July 31, 2009.  Captain Chris and Earl sailed with 6 anglers and caught 20 bass with 12 keepers including an 18lb and a 22lb striper, 8 bluefish and 40 flounder, all in a full day trip.

July 22, 2009.  Captain Chris sailed with Bob Forsyth on a striper trip and got 28 stripers with 22 keepers including a 21lb and 27lb fish, all in a half day trip.  We limited out 5 times over. OC.

July 20, 2009. Captain Chris sailed on a flounder trip and caught 7 bass, 35 flounder and 20 bluefish all in a half day trip.

July 19, 2009.  Captain Chris and Earl sailed on a flounder trip and got 60 fish in a half day trip.  It was crazy flounder fishing.

July 18, 2009.  Captain Chris and Captain Earl sailed on a half day bass trip and got 10 bass with 8 keepers, 3 giant bluefish and 35 flounder.

July 13, 2009.  Captain Chris and Earl sailed with 3 anglers and caught 29 bass with 12 keepers, limiting out twice over, as well as 9 bluefish on a half day trip.  sun.

July 11, 2009.  Captain Chris and Earl sailed with 6 anglers in the morning and caught 27 bass with 9 keepers as well as 6 Bluefish and 35 flounder with 6 keepers.  Sun.   In the afternoon we sailed with 4 anglers and caught 16 bass with 6 keepers and 3 bluefish.  Sun.   It was a busy day.

July 10th, 2009.  Captain Chris and Earl sailed with 2 anglers and caught 25 bass with 8 keepers, limiting out for the trip.  We also went on to catch 21 flounder with 4 keepers.
 

Fishing during the 2009 season was great. We took out hundreds of people from Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and other states on a lot of inshore fishing excursions and not even once did we fail to catch fish. Many happy clients stepped onto the dock at the end of the day. We also wish to thank our new customers and the many returning customers we had for 2008, as it makes it all worthwhile to hear back from those of you who had a good time with us before and expected to do it again. We are looking forward to another banner year in 2009 for Rhode Island.

We plan to keep our 25' Aces Wild 2 up in Narragansett Bay for the month of May in 2010, doing charters out of Warwick Cove.

Our new 6 passenger fishing boat Adventure 2 was a very reliable and extremely fishable vessel as anyone who fished with us in 2008 will tell you. The enormous cockpit area of 11’x17’ is larger than that of the majority of the charter vessels in RI and we had no problem with 6 people and 2 crew while drift fishing for flounder or other bottom species, or light tackle fishing for Bass and Blues.

We are still sailing out of Jim's Dock in Jerusalem, Rhode Island right across from the Galilee and Point Judith charter fleet. It is a beautiful little marina and restaurant located on the water, off the same exit as East Matunuck State Beach. The restaurant is only open from May-October. Charter a half day trip with us then have lunch at the restaurant after we return from the fishing tours.

The 2009 RI Fishing Season is in full swing.  We have had many successful Striper trips limiting out on every trip so far.  Check out the Rhode Island fishing charters calendar for detailed information about what we fish for when.