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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was midnight aboard the 92-foot party boat Royal Star when the captain’s voice crackled good news over the PA. He had detected a school of bluefins swimming about 200 to 250 feet under the boat.

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 ...