Block Island Spearfishing Report May 29, 2016 - Ricardo Cruelles

Date: Friday 5/29/2016
Area: Block Island Report
Report Contributor: Ricardo Cruelles

First trip out on the Imagination to BI was slow, as expected. We met up with Captain Jay and we were off by 630am. Ride out was relatively flat with just a bit of a southerly breeze and seas of ½ foot, if that. We tried some of early season drifts closer to shore that looked promising on the machine but ended up being rather slow and lifeless, water temp closer to shore was a balmy 54 degrees and with the new Beuchat 5mm Rock Sea suit I was very comfortable indeed. We managed a couple of decent blackfish and saw many juvenile black sea bass, which is a very encouraging sign for the future.

We moved to a different side of the Island and tried a few more drifts, which yielded one Striped Bass and a few other Blackfish in relatively shallow waters.

With about 50 dives under our belts we decided to hit for a little bit deeper water in search of some Bass, water temperature dropped to 51 degrees which is still very cold for this time of the year. We were rather unsuccessful in our search and we only managed to find one small bunch of Bass which eluded one of our younger divers. We did see some very nice sized Sea Bass which we hope they will still be around once RI season opens up.

All and all a very nice day on the water with some great buddies and a nice shakedown for the Imagination. Thank you as usual to Capt. Jason Saiz for always taking us out.

In my humble opinion in the next two weeks things will start to light up out there and the fish will start to show up in numbers, until then, best bet to stay inshore and fish the Bay and the Sound.
Aloha and stay Safe out there boys and girls!