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.

Want to know how to use the SatFish app to locate bluefin tuna and albacore offshore in Northern California? In this video, we cover most of the SatFish layers, including SST, Chlorophyll, True Color, SSH, and Currents. Later in the video, we do a real-time breakdown of current Northern California maps and show you exactly… READ MORE

There’s a certain kind of quiet that settles in when you open your satellite layers and see nothing but cloud cover stretched across the Gulf Stream. No clean chlorophyll break. No glowing temperature edge. Just white. For many anglers, that’s where confidence drops. But here’s the reality: cloud cover doesn’t shut the ocean down. It… READ MORE

Wahoo are some of the tastiest critters roaming the ocean. How will you get them on the line? Wherever you may fish and whatever the quality of the wahoo bite may be, including at least one of these three tactics into your repertoire will boost your chances.

Cobia get big enough, are tough enough, and are tasty enough that they’d count as a prime target for offshore anglers if they lived offshore—so when you want to target big game but don’t have the time or ability to head for bluewater, put ‘em in the bullseye. Here are three top tactics for hooking up, and three tips for each.

As the dolphin move up the coast this spring fishing for them will be very different than it is once summer sets in — here’s how to find those first fish and how to catch ‘em. Once summer sets in decimating the dolphin is about as easy as offshore fishing gets along the Mid-Atlantic coast…. READ MORE