How to Use SatFish to Read the Water

Check out these articles and videos from our team of SatFish Ambassadors and contributors to learn how to use SatFish to see important currents and breaks for your local region, improve your offshore fishing game, and catch more of your favorite gamefish.

Fishing offshore all night long can make for the trip of a lifetime. Spending the night offshore is a blast in more ways than one, but nothing hurts more than an empty cooler after 36 hours at sea. You want to stack the deck in your favor? Of course you do—and these five tips will… READ MORE

When bluefin tuna are sitting deep, speed jigging is fire. You can see bluefin tuna on the meter down deep, and they won’t hit baits trolled on the surface? This happens a fair amount in some areas, such as in the Mid-Atlantic region when the tuna are feeding on sand eels over humps in a… READ MORE

Why do all those marlin seem to be window shopping? Few things are as frustrating—excruciating, even—as marlin that appear in the spread but refuse to eat. Whites are particularly guilty, sometimes going from one offering to the next and checking out every bait in a spread before turning tail and disappearing without ever making an… READ MORE

Golden tilefish are big, tasty, and tough to catch—but they’re even tougher to find. You know the golden tilefish are out there, but you don’t know exactly where? The ocean is a vast desert and the oasis that hold golden tiles compromises a relatively tiny swath of oceanic area, so the very best way to… READ MORE

In the past, we used to have a saying that blackfin were throw-backs in the summer while fishing for yellowfin, but come fall, they became delicious and a target when the yellowfin had come and gone. Now that yellowfins have become harder to catch, the blackfin tuna have climbed a few notches on the scale of… READ MORE

Targeting bigeye tuna takes a 100-percent all-out directed effort. Few members of the Thunnus species are as difficult as bigeye to target. Timing matters, bathymetry matters, water temp matters, and the offerings you choose matter, too. You say you want to sink the gaff into one of these bluewater beasts? Make sure to consider all… READ MORE