Should it be considered cheating? While some may not agree, there are times when fighting a fish from the gunwale makes sense ...

There are 24 hours in a day, and roughly half are illuminated by the sun. The other half of the hours are in the dark, but that doesn’t stop me from fishing. Over two-thirds of my fishing trips are ...

Arriving at the launch ramp near the inlet to the Atlantic Ocean, we were greeted by an angry St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida. It rumpled with confused 3-foot seas and frosted whitecaps ...

Back in the day, I would sometimes wake up with a start, anxious about my saltwater fishing boat, worrying about my pride and joy as it bobbed in the slip unattended, miles from my house. Was it ...

Fishing sunglasses leave their mark. You can spot a hard-core angler from across the room at a formal engagement. Those pale raccoon rings around the eyes and the ball cap-bleached beacon of a ...

I was sitting in my office daydreaming about a bluefin run I made a while back. Catching these amazing gamefish creates vivid memories. It was on a day in early May, well before first light, when I ...

Anglers in the South Atlantic have reason to gaze across to the Gulf and be more than a little envious—and curious—about the wildly different management regimes for red snapper. While South Atlantic ...

Electric bicycles, electric skateboards and electric kayaks take the work out of having fun, and now electric fishing reels take the cranking out of fishing. An electric reel uses a small motor to ...

Through the final quarter of the past century and first quarter of this one, Texas’ speckled trout fishery was dealt some ugly cards. Once the nation’s chip leader in trophy trout, the Lone Star’s fat ...

Long before the days of social media, or even smartphones for that matter, Southern California anglers spent most of their winter season targeting deepwater rockfish. Back then, we called them rock ...

Gore spattered up the captain’s calf as he stomped a mesh bag full of recently netted menhaden in the transom. I was busy at the cutting board, chunking and tossing as quickly as I could. The net had ...