The Fisherman

Meet the 2017 Dream Boat Challenge grand champion along with some the Steiger Craft Boats Youth Angler Showcase honorees at the New York Boat Show.

Whether you like to hunt, fish, hike or just enjoy the outdoors, the Springfield Sportsmen’s Show is a must-attend event for you!

“This event will be more like attending a party celebrating Long Island fishing – a non-traditional show where everyone can expect to have a great time.”

New Jersey anglers are encouraged to attend March 15 meeting of the New Jersey Marine Fisheries Council to take the good with the bad for 2018; the preliminary rundown on the fluke, porgy & sea bass season ahead.

The 2018 Federal budget prohibits the enforcement of the prohibition of targeting striped bass in Federal waters around Block Island, RI by NOAA Fisheries and the Coast Guard.

If you plan to fish in the marine district of Connecticut in 2018, this meeting will have a bearing on when you’ll be able to go and what is eligible for the cooler.

Get a 20% discount to the Atlantic City Boat Show which runs from February 28 through March 4 featuring 28 fishing and boating seminars presented by The Fisherman and the Recreational Fishing Alliance.

As the show season winds down, here are two shows that are sure to help shorten the transition to spring.

Connecticut has made changes to regulations for angling and harvest on several different species for 2018.

Trout stocking across Massachusetts is set to begin the first week of March.

The largest saltwater fishing show rolls into the Rhode Island Convention Center on March 9 – 11, 2018.

ASMFC and MAFMC convene a joint meeting in Annapolis, MD from December 11-14 to discuss a number of fisheries management issues, with fluke and black sea bass expected to take up much of the week’s heaviest debate.

Salt Water Sportsman’s National Seminar Series features local and national experts during this day-long event.

The tackle industry mourns the loss of one its leading innovators, Louis Feldsott, who was still presiding over the Folsom Corporation at the age of 102.

Hard-water opportunities abound in New Hampshire this winter!

As fisheries managers were talking 2018 black sea bass and fluke in Maryland, just down the road our members of Congress were moving forward with federal changes that could affect the years to follow.