CSA September Club Outing to Weekapaug Fire District Beach for Bonito, and False Albacore

CSA September Club Outing to Weekapaug Fire District Beach for Bonito, and False Albacore

Greetings Surfcasters,

This Saturday, September 5th, we will be doing a club outing to weekapaug fire district beach for Bonito, and (fingers crossed), false albacore. Conditions look good and comfortable, and there's some fish around. NNW wind, low tide around 9am, and maybe some rain. Water should be clean and shorebreak shouldn't be a problem.

We'll meet in the 3rd lot, for 5:30 am. Early, yes I know. This works with the parking situation, plus sometimes the fish like first light. Depending on when lifeguards show up we may have to leave around 9.

If you've never been, you take spray rock road in Westerly, Rhode Island until the Weekapaug Inn. Follow the sand trail until the end where the gate is. That's the “3rd lot”. I like an 8ft rod rated to 2 Oz or so, a 5000 sized reel, 20lbs braid and 20lbs flouro leader. Epoxy jigs, small tins, Texas rigged albie snax, and so on. Too heavy gear can prevent casting smaller offerings. I often regret not bringing a fly rod, but many times the fish are at the end of my best cast. But they come into the beach lip sometimes. And it couldnt hurt to bring a cooler and ice. Bonito are top notch eats. If I remember, I'll bring a knife and some ponzu for an on site snack. Hope to see you there!

Steve

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"The Surfcaster" Fall Kickoff open house

Doug Wells is a CSA member, and owner of "The Surfcaster". Doug has announced his 2026 Fall Kickoff event.

CSA will have a table there to promote our organization and its mission.

Billy D Plugs raffle at June membership meeting!

Our June 3rd meeting will feature a raffle sponsored by Billy D Plugs. Club member and past president Bill DeLizio, “Billy D,” has been an active CSA member going on 25 years. He wants to show his heartfelt appreciation to all CSA members that have given him the opportunity to surf cast with them and also the honor of being club President for 8 years. That includes all the newbies and seasoned veterans. Billy D’s early years fishing the Cuttyhunk Rod & Gun Club and the Rhode Island Surfcasters club challenge tournaments led to 3 club championships and several more runner-up positions. He believes it is time to give back to CSA for 25 great years.

This month's raffle will have exclusively 15 Billy D custom lures; no single rod cow prize, no schoolie items - just 15 precision made Billy D custom lures. Included will be top water metal lips, assorted needlefish, mid-diving metal lips and his exclusive Level Glyde Needlefish©. Each plug is bench tested, saltwater tested, precision tuned. This raffle assortment each typically retails for $35 to $50 depending on style.

In order to allow all members a fair chance at winning there will be a 2 plug limit per member regardless of how many tickets purchased or drawn out of the hat. Tickets are priced the same as our regular monthly cow prize - 1 for $5, 3 for $10, 7 for $20. A bonus $50 purchase will get you 20 tickets!

Looking forward seeing a great turn out for the raffle!

Thanks,

Mike Simko

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