Month: May 2024

Recently, I was thinking about an article I read a long time ago. It was sometime in the early 70s, when I was a youngster learning to fish in Southern California.  Eager for information, I read as many fishing magazines as I could. The article that stuck with me was about which month was the […]

On the back end of the dreaded “dog days of summer”, and before the fall run gates open, comes (arguably) the most exciting time of year for inshore anglers. It’s the season between seasons, a few weeks that are referred to by watermen of the northeast as albie season. When hardtails like false albacore, bonito […]

Last week, I ate a piece of bigeye tuna that had lurked in my refrigerator for 10 days. Normally, I get sketched out about eating even 5-day-old fish. This steak was different. It was my first attempt at dry-aging fish. Most of us are familiar with dry-aged beef, a highly acclaimed process in the culinary […]

Besides the obvious jetties and rock piles, most inlets have nearby shoals, flats, deep holes, and channels that hold abundant bait and fly-fishing opportunities. There are no guarantees in fishing and that’s partly what makes fly fishing so appealing. Its great attraction lies in the combination of anticipating what might happen and then what actually […]

Tattoos and maritime culture have been close friends for centuries. George Greer, an American Union sailor during the Civil War, detailed his shipmates’ extensive ink in an 1862 letter:  “I wish you could see the bodies of some of these old saylors: they are regular picture books. [They] have ink pricked all over their body. […]

There is a saying in golf, “Drive for show and putt for dough.” While catching false albacore from a frothing surface feed is one of the most exciting experiences a light tackle angler can have in the Northeast, a primary focus on “blind casting” will improve your score dramatically. The advantages of blind casting apply to […]

Henry Simonds poses with his pending Rhode Island state record false albacore. (Photo courtesy of David Hochman, Spear-It Charters) While a majority of southern New England anxiously waits for albie season to ramp up, on Thursday, August 17th, Henry Simonds of Connecticut reeled in a surprising catch off the coast of Rhode Island. He was […]

When people ask me why kayak fishing is such a successful technique, the first thing that comes to mind is stealth. Kayaks are about the quietest vessel on the water and that usually translates to catching more fish. Over the last few years, I have become a big fan of side-scanning sonar. One important lesson […]

On August 14, NOAA Fisheries announced amendments to the federal recreational fishing limits for Gulf of Maine cod and haddock and Georges Bank cod. These federal rules are described in the table below with the updated limits described in bold font and the changes from the existing rules described in red strikethrough text. These federal […]

Shell Caris eyes a cut in the sandbar at Island Beach State Park as a likely place to drop a fresh clam for striped bass. Over the course of its life, a striped bass consumes a massive variety of forage. This ranges from the tiny zooplankton that sustains the fish through its first weeks of […]