Fishing Tips

Cardamom & Corn Clam Chowder The other day I bought a small jar of cardamom seeds, a key ingredient in Swedish Christmas bread, which was a holiday tradition in my family growing up. It was always served toasted and buttered with our Christmas breakfast. My mother had just given me ...

Striped bass are spawning in Chesapeake Bay and heading into the Delaware and Hudson rivers. Schoolies are spreading north to Long Island and into southern New England. Follow along as we track the Striper Migration. You can help by contributing to our weekly map updates—simply share your striper fishing reports ...

Sambuca Clams Casino with Lemon Butter Cracker Crumble I enjoyed Scott Crain’s oyster Rockefeller recipe so much that I decided to make a spinoff of it for another classic shellfish recipe, clams casino. I really like the touch of Sambuca, which sweetens these up a bit, and the lemon butter ...

Black sea bass have moved northward over the past decade to the waters in the Gulf of Maine. If one had to pick a finned poster child for how warming waters are altering our fisheries, it’s got to be the black sea bass. The center of distribution for this now ...

Pennypack Creek is the gateway into the world of Pennsylvania fly fishing. Few would associate Philadelphia with fishing. Philly is a town that wears it faults on its sleeve and keeps its assets secret. The Schuylkill and Delaware rivers come to mind for most anglers when discussing the City of ...

Bobby Read holding a 58-pound striper he caught while fishing in his Hobie kayak. Launching out of Keyport, Bobby Read was making his first kayak fishing trip of the season for striped bass in the waters of Raritan Bay, an area in Northern New Jersey he has become well acquainted ...

World Record Ken Fraser with his 1496-pound IGFA All-Tackle World Record bluefin tuna. (Blue Water Magazine) Ken Fraser caught the world record bluefin tuna on Oct. 26, 1979. Fraser was fishing with Capt. Eric Samson aboard the Lady and Misty out of Port Hood, Novia Scotia. Fraser hooked up with ...

The author uses side-scan sonar to locate schools of stripers in shallow water, where they would be impossible to mark with regular sonar. In the striper fishing world, just about everything is touted as a game-changer, but over the course of my 50 years of fishing, very few things have ...

In the minds of many culinary experts, bay scallops are the most delectable treasures from our local waters. When you find bay scallops in local fish markets, expect to pay at least $30 per pound. Do not confuse them with sea scallops, however, that live in depths of at least ...

The author displays a weakfish caught jigging in Beaufort Inlet, NC, last November. New research suggests the vast majority of weakfish that migrate offshore each winter don’t survive to return the following spring. For fishermen who have spent the past several decades plying the surf and nearshore waters from Cape ...