This winter has been the coldest in a few years, causing many brackish water areas on Eastern Long Island to freeze over. Besides some questionably safe ice fishing opportunities, this was a difficult winter to fish out East. With the thaw comes an opportunity to...
After a difficult month of April, I primarily spent the early stages of May fishing inlet jetties, hoping to connect with the first few gator bluefish of the season. I was successful in doing so, landing several blues up into the mid-teens this month, primarily...
April 2, 2024 The time to prepare for another season of shorebound Striped Bass fishing has come and gone, and the time to catch fish is upon us. Here is how my thoughts have gone. This past week, I entered the garage, turned several five gallon buckets...
You’ve dropped your anchor, deployed your trolling motor, or set your gear down on the rocky shoreline. You take a pair of shears to your favorite crab species, bait up, and you’re fishing. A minute goes by, then another. Nothing has taken the bait. Boredom...
While visiting my girlfriend in Ohio, we spent a few hours fishing along the Willoughby-Eastlake portion of the Chagrin River. The outing yielded my first ever steelhead, measuring 26 inches long. The fish fell to a 1/16oz jighead with a 2" Berkley Power Minnow. A...
Winter in Massachusetts forces many fishermen off the water while the cold weather moves in and ice begins to cover many of the state’s freshwater bodies. There are a number of lakes and ponds near Boston with ice fishing access. Before venturing onto the ice,...
Every year, freshwater fishermen sit at their computer screens, refreshing the trout stocking report to see if their local fishing haunts have been stocked with a bounty of rainbow trout, brown trout, brook trout, and a brown/brook hybrid, the tiger trout. This year, Massachusetts Fisheries and...