Being a freelance captain and mate has given me the opportunity to learn numerous rigs and covert tactics in the last 12-plus years, including this one I mastered fishing on the 70-foot American ...

I was fishing off Venezuela in the late 1990s when a local mate showed me a hot dog — yes, a hot dog that you’d eat — that he had rigged with a Mustad live-bait hook. Shortly thereafter, he said, ...

King mackerel are notorius for being short hitters – meaning they normally hit half the bait, leaving the angler frustrated. They can be fierce fighters and when the battle is over, the victory is ...

OCEAN CITY — On those days when the fish don’t bite — and those days befall every fisherman or fishing captain at one time or another — sometimes it is enough to keep an ear to the wall and to learn a ...

With the first official day of summer a few weeks off, it is time to reflect on what late spring means to saltwater anglers. As the water temperature reaches the 60s and 70s, many migratory fish ...

Capt. Stan Jarusinski can claim the title of being one of the best small-boat king mackerel anglers in the world. He and the crew of his 23-foot Regulator, Mr. Stanman, won the two-day Southern ...

It's spring, so king mackerel fishing is just now heating up for anglers in the Pensacola area. Each spring, the king mackerel migrate north in the Gulf of Mexico to their summertime spawning grounds.

There’s an old saying, “better late than never” and that sure applies to this year’s mackerel run along the Jersey coast. The abnormally warm weather we’ve been having this winter has kept water ...

This is the second of a two-part bait rigging series covering swimming ballyhoo, rigging for king mackerel and strip baits. King mackerel are notorius for being short hitters; meaning they normally ...