You can now say hello to the next milestone on the fishing calendar of 2025. This marker, the expansion of the bag limit on ...

Sheepshead Bay’s recreational fishing fleet is reeling from a state edict that shortened the little known, but quite lucrative, blackfish fishing season — a business-killing measure that many now ...

The author with a Rhode Island tautog that picked up a jig fished on ultra-light spinning tackle. Step back in time 20 or 30 ...

Fishing has slowed to a crawl as we approach the dead of winter. There are just a handful of party boats are sailing on either daily or limited schedules. The Jamaica II and Ocean Explorer party boats ...

Cold temperatures, blustery winds and snow kept the blackfish fleet at the dock for most of the week. Meanwhile, the early indicators are not good for the 2023 striped bass spawn. The ocean had ...

The blackfish were stubborn but the fishermen were just as stubborn. Saturday was not an ideal day for bottom fishing with a southeast wind and swell building all morning. But, the rain that was ...

North of the village of Hughes, in frigid, sluggish water, dim blue light penetrates 2 feet of lake ice. The ice has a quarter-size hole, maintained by a stream of methane bubbles. Every few minutes, ...

Blackfish addicts have had to be content with a single tautog per day since July 16, but that comes to an end Sunday when the limit changes to six per man through the rest of the year. It probably ...

Where you should go: Sea Girt Reef has been consistent for blackfish recently. What you should use: Green crabs. Why today is a good day for this: There's no swell to turn off bottom fish, and the ...

As I'm fond of saying, the fishing seasons change, but the fishing season never ends. As we bid adieu to another Hook, Line and Sinker season, I'd like to remind readers that our fishing coverage will ...

This story has been updated to include information that the kid's seminar at the Real Seat this Sunday is canceled. Soon the raw, dreary weekends of March will be behind us, replaced by days of sun ...