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9 Offbeat Bonefish Tricks
The tide wasn’t quite right for sight-casting to bonefish, so the angler fishing with Capt. Jorge Valverde opted to target sharks. Valverde rigged a spinning outfit with a wire leader and hooked on a...
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Lone Wolves of the Flats
The summer sun blazed down from an azure-blue sky as we drifted the flat near Key West, Florida, looking for permit. We hadn’t yet stumbled across any elusive sickle-tails, but peering to the edge of a...
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Top Redfish Spots
Wherever redfish live, big bulls form great schools offering some of the most chaotic, unforgettable fishing imaginable. All you have to do is find ’em. The following three short features will help you...
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Oregon’s Surprising Sturgeon
They’ve been known to jump into boats out here. In fact, I hooked a big one a while back, and immediately it jumped right next to the boat, crashing into the gunwale. I stiff-armed it with both hands...
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Light-Tackle Stripers
Washed by waters from Long Island Sound, Block Island Sound and thea Atlantic Ocean, Montauk, New York, has been a fishermen’s mecca since before recorded history. Striped bass congregate in deep water...
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Southern California Coastal Fishing for Calico Bass Turns Red Hot
Calico bass — aka kelp bass — are biting full speed along the kelp lines and reefs of the Southern California coast, spurred on by warming ocean waters and the availability of live squid. I had the...
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SoCal Lingcod Primer
Among Southern California anglers, the lingcod goes by many names. Buffalo cod. Buckethead. Gator bass. Godzilla. Lingasaur. Yet within its realm, the lingcod possesses the heart of a dragon....
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NYC Striper Hunt
Still sipping Starbucks, we ease out of the New York Skyports Marina, the primary seaplane base for Manhattan, tucked in next to FDR Drive at East 23rd Street. It’s a gorgeous summer morning, just one...
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Three Favorite Sharks
Sharks are everyman’s fish. Big, powerful and exciting, they possess an uncanny ability to thrill like few other game fish. Sport Fishing gives you the lowdown on three popular species in three popular...
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Guyana Sport-Fishing Film Wins Sundance Award
For its short-feature film, Jungle Fish, Costa Sunglasses and director Louisiana Kreutz accepted an award from the Sundance Institute and Hilton Worldwide at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Park...
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Slaughter by Superstition
In the March issue, we ran a feature by Mike Mazur (“The Best There Ever Were”) about 10 legendary fisheries that changed our sport. One of those 10 was dedicated to the totuava, an amazing...
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Boston Blackies
[Be sure to click through all the images in the gallery above.]"Hey guys, I think you’ll want to check out this fish,” Vin Vettese called from the bow of his 25-foot Hydra-Sports. The soft-spoken...
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VIDEO: Yellowfin Slam Fest!
Does anyone ever tire of seeing tuna crash the surface? Of course, the true excitement happens when it’s you that is surrounded by that action, and it’s you that has a bait in the water. In this video,...
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Virginia Anglers Dig Deep for Big Black Sea Bass
(Be sure to click through all the images in the gallery above.)When you’re 50 miles off Virginia Beach in the middle of winter, you hope the sea bass will be biting — otherwise, you’re in for a long,...
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More Protection for Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Stocks
The future for Atlantic bluefin tuna is looking somewhat brighter, thanks to new measures proposed by the National Marine Fisheries Service to better protect stocks of the vulnerable, icon apex...
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Crashing Bluefin Tuna on the Cape
(Be sure to click through all the images in the gallery above.)That first, pretty September day hunting bluefins off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, started slowly, as we jigged the shipping lanes near...
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Catching Strange Little Fish in the Mediterranean
Steve Wozniak (NOT the Apple guy) is a man on a mission: to be the first person in the world to catch 2,000 different species of fish. (He was already the first to 1,000, so his girlfriend set the new...
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Pacific Bluefin Tuna Sold for $70,000, Despite 96.4% Stock Decrease
This past Sunday, a 507-pound piece of Pacific bluefin tuna sold at Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market. Last year’s tuna broke records and sold for $1.76 million. This year, prices plummeted to $70,000. As...
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Giant Bluefin Tuna Recaptured 16 Years After Tagging
Sixteen years and about 1,200 pounds later, a little bluefin tuna got big. The 14-pound bluefin tagged southeast of New York’s Block Island in 1997 by Capt. Al Anderson — whose anglers have tagged tens...
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