Just a short decade ago, only a small cadre of anglers knew the secrets to consistently catching broadbill swordfish after sunrise. Sure, occasional sunning fish were caught on the surface, and the ...

Wading the surf for speckled trout and running the rivers for white bass are on opposite ends of the light-tackle line, but they share one rule: Get it while you can. Each is a huge gamble. The summer ...

Some lessons aren’t easily forgotten. This is one. One early spring day, a friend and I were fishing for largemouth bass on a small lake — fishing as opposed to catching. After four hours, having ...

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 ...

Somewhere out there in the rough and white-capped waves of the Atlantic Ocean swims a sailfish with a special designation: the winning sailfish. For the guys fishing aboard the boat Toast, that one ...

Fishing with fly rod or light conventional tackle on the rivers and billabongs and seacoast off Darwin, Australia, is, in the lexicon of guides and other facilitators of sport, “A bastard of a good ...

The sailfish action is about to get good. At least that's the conventional wisdom coming from the sailfish tournament captains and anglers preparing for this weekend's Light Tackle Sailfish Tournament ...

One of the most accomplished ambassadors in saltwater angling, Joan Vernon has ­traveled to the world’s best destinations to fish in—as well as host—tournaments, raising funds for conservation ...

Planning an offshore fishing trip usually means getting up before the crack of dawn, loading the boat, stopping for coffee along the way and, of course, picking up necessary bait, rigs and terminal ...

It was a fine day in late summer. My friend Lewis and I were fishing for largemouth bass on a small lake — fishing as opposed to catching. After four hours, having tried nearly every bass lure in our ...