I was fishing off Venezuela in the late 1990s when a local mate showed me a hot dog — yes, a hot dog that you’d eat — that he had rigged with a Mustad live-bait hook. Shortly thereafter, he said, ...

“It was the second day of the Big Rock tournament in North Carolina two years ago, and we were fishing the first Viking 72 demo boat,” Capt. Ryan Higgins recalls. “We decided to make a long run to the ...

The Clarkspoon has been around since 1927, and it’s been filling coolers with Spanish mackerel ever since. Dense enough that, even in the small sizes, you can fire one a mile and hit that distant ...

Summertime king mackerel fishing is something that all anglers can enjoy whether you fish from a boat or off one of the Gulf piers. You also don’t have to be an expert fisherman, in fact it’s possible ...

We found out why when a huge fin appeared behind the long-line bait. After a huge cannonball-like splash, we were hooked up with a 200-pound hammerhead shark. Knowing we were using very light tackle ...

Conservationists have condemned the UK’s failure to back a plan to fish mackerel sustainably in the north-east Atlantic to protect stocks as “pitiful”. The European Union proposed setting quotas for ...

Daniel Davisson got to the Jacksonville Beach Pier for live bait fishing with some buddies about mid-afternoon on August 4. He's been a regular at the pier for over a decade. That day he drove from ...

It's spring, so king mackerel fishing is just now heating up for anglers in the Pensacola area. Each spring, the king mackerel migrate north in the Gulf of Mexico to their summertime spawning grounds.

The union representing the province’s inshore fish harvesters wants the Atlantic mackerel bait fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador opened back up. A commercial mackerel fishery has been under ...

The warm, late July water drew the Spanish mackerel well within reach of jetty casters this weekend who landed dozens of the olive green-speckled fish on small metals lures. Greg Bogan at Brielle Bait ...