Salt Water

One of the best baits to fool hungry white marlin is a naked “dink” ballyhoo. A seasoned mate explains the steps he uses to make a “biscuit rig.” Matthew Spivey has been working the cockpit of Bank Walker, a 60 Omie Tillet custom sportfisher based in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, ...

Chumming is an effective tactic for a variety of game fish. Culled by-catch from shrimp trawlers is used to catch tuna, king mackerel and sharks in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Northeast Florida and Georgia Atlantic coasts. Shrimp or crab bits loaded into tubes will draw bonefish and ...

In 2008, the Unsinkable Legend was celebrating its 50th anniversary. It was a waypoint in an evolutionary journey of design and engineering that changed the course of boating and boatbuilding. But some will say what Boston Whaler has done in the past 10 years is more revolutionary yet. Whaler has ...

Right here.” My buddy’s words were laden with frustration and confusion. He gestured with his rod in one hand and his empty other hand to the flats surrounding us. “Right here. I’m telling you that for the last three months we’ve found reds right here, and now, nothing.” For several ...

A snelled hook is popular with marine anglers who want a strong, sure connection, particularly for tuna, billfish, grouper and hard-charging inshore locomotives like bull reds. Snelled hooks offer maximum strength, provide a straight pull through the hook shank and telegraph bites quickly up the line. Here’s how to snell ...

As we troll the flats west of Berkeley in nearly wadable water, to our south the newly minted San Francisco- Oakland Bay Bridge glints in the morning sun, with the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge to the north. Despite being in the center of a busy urban environment, the fishing is good. ...

The Yamaha brand is synonymous with innovation, so fittingly it’s the first to roll out a 21-foot jet-drive center-console, the 210 FSH, designed and rigged to serve the needs of avid anglers and their families in a variety of inshore and offshore situations. For those unfamiliar, the Yamaha jet drive ...

SeaVee Boats, a heralded Miami builder, again hits it out of the park with the new revamped version of its popular 29-foot center-console, an easy-to-trailer offshore and nearshore performer with an impressive list of standard features and a wide range of available options. Undoubtedly, the 290B has been designed to ...

On the south end of Sabine Lake, on the Texas-Louisiana border, the mouth of a bayou creates a conveyor for flounder where it empties into the lake. They ride the incoming tide into the bayou and feed on shrimp, mullet and shad. Then, as the tide turns and begins to ...

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