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.

Do you carry these rigs and know when to deploy them? Yeah, everyone always pulls ballyhoo. Sure, splash and spreader bars are dragging behind most boats. But there are a few rigs that have very specific applications at very specific times, which are rarely seen on recreational offshore fishing boats. If you don’t carry these… READ MORE

Trigger a feeding frenzy to load the boat with blackfin. Pound for pound blackfin tuna fight like banshees and while they might not be the biggest tuna species around, they certainly count among the tastiest. Better yet, you can absolutely clobber these fish—if you have the right bait, and present it in the right way… READ MORE

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

Ever wonder how offshore anglers consistently find tuna before leaving the dock? In this video, we break down exactly how we use temperature maps and chlorophyll maps to locate bluefin and albacore tuna. We go over why these breaks are the key to finding bait and life offshore. We’ll walk through real world examples from… 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