The Offshore Game: New-Age Tuna Tackle
With school-size yellowfin and bluefin tuna being well within range of near offshore anglers in recent seasons in ever-increasing numbers,…
New Jersey & Delaware Bay
Plug Building 2021: A Mini Bottle Plug
After 15 years of these articles, we finally tackle the Bottle Plug!
Of Circles & Stripers: Tips & Tactics For Hooking Up
The fundamentals of hook selection and deployment in the new age of striper conservation.
The Soft Stuff: Make The Most Of Sand Beaches
Easy to navigate, but difficult to master, sand beaches offer the surfcaster a truly wild experience.
Smart Money: The Fishing Rod Buying Guide
Ten tips to ensure that next rod purchase is money well spent.
Early Season Tactics: Hunting Transition Trout
Scoring on late winter to early spring trout can be difficult, but once the secrets are unlocked the rewards can be great.
FISHERMAN STAFFER EARNS PRESTIGIOUS ‘BILL GRAY CONSERVATION AWARD’
Each year the folks from Gray FishTag Research (GFR) choose a participant from their many fish tagging programs to present…
Oops, We Goofed!
That was not a bluefish at the bottom of page 58 in the January edition Photo Gallery, but a redfish…
April Deadline For 2021 Utzinger-Vellekamp Scholarship
Hackensack Riverkeeper, the citizen-steward of the Hackensack River Watershed is pleased to announce it is accepting applications for the 2021…
Bass Pro Shops Buys Yet Another Competitor
Four years after Bass Pro Shops announced plans to acquire its top rival, Cabela’s, the Springfield, Missouri-based company reached an…
February Fisheries Meetings
From February 1-4, 2021, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASFMC) will host their 2021 Winter Meeting (go to ASMFC.org…
NJ/PA Show Updates For 2021
While the anticipation of 2020 coming to a close had many folks looking forward to the end of COVID-19, the…
IFISSH Courses Offered Online Through Rutgers Starting Feb. 16
Want to know how fisheries decisions are made? Interested in getting more involved in the process as an advisor or…
License & Registration
Ever since the last reauthorization of our nation’s federal fisheries law (Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2006)…
Editor’s Log: Mourning In Belmar
I once asked Al Ristori, at 83, if he had anything left on his bucket list. “I really don’t,” Ristori…
Hot Spot: Toms River
For anglers that find the long, Jersey winter dragging along, the Toms River offers the first glimmer of hope to…