Getting Crabby: Baiting for Tog
The difference between scoring a limit of bulldog white chins versus a pail of borderline keepers comes down to how well you present these crusty crustaceans.
Inshore
Striped Bass How-to: Trolling the Deep Divers
If trolling stripers is on your fall itinerary, you’d be foolish not to take advantage of this highly effective technique.
Attracting Stripers: With Low-Down Chunking
How to make sure the dinner bell is heard loud and clear in swifter currents.
Blackfish Behavior: Tautog Observations & Insights
How a little underwater surveillance can change one’s strategic focus on whitechins.
Trophies on the Troll: Tube and Worm Tactics
A standard from the traditional striper man’s playbook, the tube and worm is an effective tactic throughout the seasons.
Back to Sea Bass: Class Is in Session
It may require work finding open seasons, but it’s all play – big play – once you do.
Speed Demons: Tossing Tins for Albies and Bones
Everything you need to know to catch false albacore and green bonito on metals this season.
Sea Robins: Trash Fish No More!
With its mild taste, wide ranging abundance and an insatiable appetite, the sea robin is quietly gaining in popularity.
Light Tackling Big Water Stripers
Light tackle can be equally as effective in the deep and turbulent waters of the Striper Coast as it is in the more placid waters of our bays and sounds.
Tackling Tautog: Modern Blackfish Gear
We’re entering prime time for hitting the local snags for big, burly blackfish; gear up before it all goes down!
Tog Time: Blackfish Mistakes
Avoid these common mistakes of blackfish anglers and put more fish in your boat this fall.
Jigging for Squid 101: Calamari for the Holidays
Knowing how to recognize the different types of jigs, as well as how to rig and fish them is essential to success.
Bangin’ Biscuits: October Sea Bassin’
Look to the 15- to 30-mile wrecks and reefs in the 75- to 150-foot range for opening day humpbacks.
Better Bassin’: Mullet Overnight
If the day was good, the night will be better as bass feast on late-season baitfish in the surf.
Shallow Water Tautog: Culling Out Keepers
Their hard-fighting and delicious qualities have made them one of the Northeast’s most popular inshore species.
Fall Blackfish: Try a Little Finesse
Whether you fish the North or South Shore, light tackle can play big on blackfish under the right conditions.
