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Northeast Offshore Grab-Bag
Just my luck! The sea-temperature satellite chart showed a break in the cloud cover and a sweet, little 76-degree warm-core filament that had meandered into the 20-fathom area southeast of Fire Island,...
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Oil Rig Tuna Fishing On Louisiana Gulf Coast
Last July, I flew from Miami to Las Vegas for the annual ICAST tackle show. The plane’s flight path went over the northern Gulf of Mexico south of the Louisiana mainland, and although it’s impossible...
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Secrets to the Florida Panhandle's Trophy Redfish
Often overlooked as a premier fishing destination, the sleepy town of Port St. Joe elevates itself as a piscatorial power. Nestled in the elbow of Florida's panhandle along the Forgotten Coast, it's an...
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Mexico's Revillas Treasure
When the call came, it was in the middle of chaos.“Holy s—t! There’s the cow!”That was a cow, as in a frighteningly large yellowfin tuna, looking to be well past the 300-pound mark — in fact, thus...
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Great Sight-Cast Fisheries
In all of angling, there’s nothing quite like sightfishing. Whether targeting a big, single permit on the flats, groups of surface-swimming cobia nearshore or tunas ravenously pounding bait on top in...
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Trailer Trekking
Every angler who owns a trailerable boat dreams of taking it to fish-filled destinations. There’s freedom in having your rig and gear with you to muck about inshore or offshore.Take your time and...
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Fishing Florida Bay by Kayak
Florida — surf and sandy beaches: That’s a valid association for much of the state’s extensive coastline. But the shore along the entire bottom of the long peninsula is a very different world. Here,...
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Fishing The Gulf's Open Waters
I love fishing Gulf oil rigs. I hate fishing Gulf oil rigs.What accounts for this love/hate relationship? On the one hand, because these offshore structures are home to coral-reef ecosystems that...
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Billfishing Sizzles Off Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach is long known for its incredibly diverse inshore and nearshore fisheries associated with the Chesapeake Bay, but it’s been the offshore haunts that have truly been turning heads...
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North of Cape Sable
The big Yamaha outboard pushed Capt. Jim Wilcox’s classic 1988 18-foot Action Craft bay boat farther and farther into the mangrove jungle. We were nearing the end of a mesmerizing journey, now...
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Fishing New Smyrna Beach, Florida
[This area is a paradise for nature enthusiasts, surfers, beachcombers and, most importantly, fishermen.]While beachside communities might seemingly be a dime a dozen along Florida’s expansive...
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Majestic Maine's First-Class Sharking
[Be sure to click through all the images in the gallery above.]The folks at Maine tourism could not have written a better script: Spotless sky over a still, serene sea; finback and minke whales...
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White Marlin Open Tournament Journal, Pre-Trip 1
I’m starting to get excited. I just made definitive reservations to fish the 40th Annual White Marlin Open — one of the world’s largest billfish tournaments — with the Contender Boats Team, August 5-9...
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White Marlin Open Journal, Day 1
I arrived in Ocean City Sunday afternoon prepped for an all-out assault on the marlin and tuna. But I file this now from a local Starbucks Monday morning: The first day of fishing for the 40th Annual...
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White Marlin Open Journal, Day 2
The good news: We fished! The bad news: The fish didn’t cooperate. That can be the nature of bigeye tuna fishing — feast or famine. Team Contender started its first day in the White Marlin Open at 6...
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White Marlin Open Journal, Day 3
Today, Team Contender targeted white marlin rather than tuna. This is, after all, the White Marlin Open we are fishing. We pulled ballyhoo along the edge of the Wilmington Canyon. We had three hits....
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White Marlin Open Journal, Day 4
"Committee boat, committee boat... This is boat 179.... We'd like to weigh in a skunk." Hey, if you can't laugh at yourself, you know others will, right?Day three of fishing the White Marlin Open, and...
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White Marlin Open Journal, Awards
While many of the 262 teams that fished this past week’s 40th Annual White Marlin Open out of Ocean City, Maryland, went home with a week full of great memories, a cadre of others attended the event’s...
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Charlotte Harbor Snook on the Rebound
Florida’s Charlotte Harbor region in the southwest corner of the state features lush sea grasses, pearly white beaches and usually calm sea conditions. At the mouth of the harbor, Boca Grande Pass...
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