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

When I was working with the Southern Kingfish Association about 15 years ago, I met and befriended Capt. George Mitchell. He would arrive at tournaments in a stunning hauler towing a high-performance ...

The most reliable place on the planet to catch yellowfin and blackfin tunas is offshore Venice, Louisiana. Venice is located advantageously at the mouth of the mighty Mississippi River. And as fall ...

As it happens every April when water temperatures hit the magic 75-degree mark, thousands of tarpon on both the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the Sunshine State leave their winter hangouts up coastal ...

Offshore jigging has really taken off in the past couple of years. Sure, some early adopters have been jigging with metals for decades, but it was never something utilized by the masses. That’s ...

Retired news anchor and fly-fisherman Tom Brokaw once wrote: “Is it my imagination, or are almost all stories about fly-fishing told in hushed tones in pristine settings where man and trout are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among the three, the Pacific cubera is the smallest. Of course “small” is relative; the IGFA all-tackle world-record of 78 pounds, 12 ounces (Bahia Pez Vela, Costa Rica in 1988) is no minnow. The ...

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 ...

While Seriola might sound like an ­elfin character from Lord of the Rings, it actually refers to members of a ­genus of gamefish. Anglers know its species to be popular, aggressive, accessible, large, ...