Fishing Tips

With the addition of the new NorthCoast 255 HT, NorthCoast’s three-season cabin boat lineup now includes four hulls for serious fishermen who push the limits of the Northeast’s fishing season. Along with the 255HT, NorthCoast builds a 285 HT, 235 HT, and a 215HT – which happens to be the ...

First off, I want to apologize to all of our OTW Fish Beer enthusiasts. Things have been busy here at OTW headquarters, and we’ve been falling way behind on our weekly Fish Beer Friday reviews. It’s not that we haven’t been diligently judging new brews, we just haven’t gotten around ...

Each summer during their high school and college years, Caroline and Lauren Grainger spent their time working for their uncle Geoff at his pottery shop in Marion, Massachusetts. He shared his passion and over 30 years of experience in ceramics and fishing, teaching the sisters the art of creating a ...

Early one mid-June morning many years ago, I was all set to do some live-lining off one of my favorite jetties. While walking along the beach in the dim light, I noticed a medium-sized calico crab lying motionless at the surf line. Curious, I touched the crustacean, and found it ...

Pictured above: Capt. Craig Cantelmo and his son Jackson enjoy good bass action on Cape Cod. Craig balanced a Van Staal VF12HD reel on a 10-weight rod for optimum line control and enhanced cranking performance. “Man, that fish tore off a hundred yards and nearly spooled me. I couldn’t hold ...

Pictured above: It often got crowded at Long Branch Pier, with whiting anglers two and three deep along the rail. It was a chilly November Friday, with the wind out of the northwest, as I stood outside Lincoln School in Newark. It was 3:15 p.m. and my dad was already ...

Note: Charlie Cinto died unexpectedly on Jan 25, 2020 at the age of 91. He is sorely missed by the author and his family and those who had the good fortune to have known, spoken to, or fished alongside this honest, talented, humble, and generous man. This article, “40 on ...

In the first episode of season 17 of On The Water’s Angling Adventures, Chris Megan and Jimmy Fee joined Joe Diorio of Joe Diorio Guide Service to fish centerpin setups for Farmington River trout. Float fishing with a centerpin is a popular technique for large lake-run steelhead and brown trout ...

Catching three 40-pounders in four drifts sounds like a pretty good fish tale. If the setting had been anywhere other than that magical body of water between Montauk and Block Island, not one angler would believe it. Yet, when the setting is a full moon shining over Block Island Sound, ...

Pictured above: Les Newhall used a pink shine Gulp on a jighead to fool this 9-pound flounder. My charter of four had been hammering fluke of all sizes at an artificial reef during an August afternoon in 2016. White Marathon Growling Bucktails with glow Berkley Gulp were working for everyone ...