“Smack!” My line stretched tight and instantly began peeling from the reel as my first false albacore of the morning powered through the rips. As the spool quickly reached the half-full mark I wondered for a second if the little tunny would ever tire. Eventually, however, it began to circle and I realized […]… Read more »

                                  Anglers looking to both fill the freezer and enjoy some thrills while bottom fishing this time of year need look no further than the tasty and pugnacious black sea bass. During September and October, these structure lovers stack up […]… Read more »

      You would think that late summer and early fall would be prime time for largemouth bass fans here in the Northeast. After all, water temperatures are coming off their dog day highs, there is still plenty of green vegetation to work from the shore right on out to deep water and, with […]… Read more »

  It’s amazing how some August sunshine and even a marginal heat wave can slow local bass fishing to a crawl. Come late summer, most veteran bigmouth fans are glued to the dawn and dusk routine and a few have probably shifted to fishing on the midnight shift. While these anglers are indeed working the most […]… Read more »

  Felicia Scocozza lowered her bucktail into the dropping tide at the mouth of a fast-flowing tidal creek and watched as its soft-plastic tail stretched out in the current. With a slight lift of the rod tip, she edged the lure in tight along a bridge abutment, then began to work it with a gentle […]… Read more »

A recent discussion about the difficulties of catching keeper fluke brought to mind a long-ago day on Long Island’s Debs Inlet spent with the late Charlie Nappi. Known to many as The Duke of Fluke, Nappi still holds the International Game Fish Association all-tackle world record for a mammoth, 22.44-pound doormat he hauled from Montauk’s […]… Read more »

The strike was unmistakable. A lunker largemouth bass had exploded on my Zara Spook as I “walked the dog” along the protruding edge of a small lily patch. Somehow the big fish missed the lure completely, even thought it was in open water. A second cast to the same spot brought a slight swirl, a […]… Read more »

In the distance you hear the pitch-black surface plug splash down tight to shore. You wait a few seconds, wave at the mosquitoes, and then begin a slow and steady retrieve. As you spot the dark silhouette trailed by the expected v-shaped wake you realize a second wake is closing in for a broadside kill. […]… Read more »