Mid-Atlantic

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

Blueline tilefish may not be the most impressive fish in the ocean, but they’re relatively easy to find and almost always willing to bite. You need to find a reliable way to save the day when trolling has left you with a blank scorecard at the eleventh hour? All along the Mid-Atlantic coast, blueline tilefish… READ MORE

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