High-speed trolling lures offer an easy way to cover water and target big fish without dealing with rigging and maintaining ...

Some our favorite offshore sportfish — such as dolphin — are overfished. Long-term research into fish species will help ...

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 ...

“Three o’clock, 30 yards!” I shouted from the elevated second helm as we idled through the shallow waters off Jekyll Island, Georgia. “I see it,” said my friend before making a cast toward the ...

The opah, also known as moonfish (Lampris guttatus), has a remarkable distinction in the marine world: it’s the only known fish that is fully warm-blooded. While fish like tuna and certain sharks are ...

Fishing is a sport of learning and evolving. Every skill and technique in your arsenal is an adaptation for situational necessity that makes you a better angler. Here are 16 tried-and-true tricks from ...

The late 1980s, I first heard about a young guide in Connecticut who fished from a Hewes Redfisher, sight-casting to striped bass in shallow water inaccessible to other types of craft. Capt. Jeff ...

After a long day on the water my boat is covered with fish slime and hazy with sea salt. Even though I’m tired, sunburned and sore, the trip isn’t over until the boat, gear and tackle are clean and ...

My first experience with rail-rod fishing occurred far from its origins. The technique was born in the tropics of Mexico, where West Coast long-range sport-fishing boats have used it for decades to ...

Think you have all the basics learned? Those timeless essential fishing skills you picked up along the way haven’t let you down. Still, there are plenty of new techniques worth acquiring as technology ...