While many anglers have shifted to using circle hooks for billfish, j-hooks remain a popular choice, especially when targeting big mahimahi. Ballyhoo, combined with either a chugger head or small lure ...

As the spring migration of striped bass starts to slow, anglers begin to focus on catching summer flounder, or fluke. This year, similar to the past three years, has gotten off to a slow start. “The ...

When learning how to fish for bass, an essential first lesson for beginners is to master a few essential fishing rigs that use soft baits—whether they’re worms, crawfish, tube baits, or creature baits ...

A Ned rig is a near-nothing bait composed of a small soft-plastic lure rigged on a jig head. And yet if you had to coax a bite from a bass anytime, anywhere, a Ned rig might very well be your best bet ...

Long before forward-facing sonar was the hot button issue in fishing, the Alabama rig was causing waves for many of the same reasons. The ultimate balance of pain versus reward, this divisive bass ...

The summer flounder (fluke) bite is on. Anglers are hooking up with keeper fluke off Newport, in lower Narragansett Bay, Mount Hope Bay, along our coastal shore and around Block Island. The idea is to ...