Florida

One of the best, yet hardest parts of fishing offshore is the fact that there are so many options. Best because you have options, and hardest because you can end up not doing any one type well because you’re trying to do too many. What you need is a game plan! Plan A is the… 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

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

Do you love it when kicking mahi are piling up on the deck so fast that a river of red goes running through the scuppers? Of course you do! These five tips will help turn a “normal” day of fishing into cockpit chaos that dyes your socks red. 1. Set up the Bucket Brigade Most… READ MORE

The definition of “peak anticipation” is the excited squawking of shearwaters and terns as they dip and dive above the water’s surface, where below lurks one of the fastest, sleekest predators in the ocean. Watching the birds get closer as the squawking gets louder, followed by human exclamations of excitement as a frothing explosion erupts… READ MORE