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3 weeks ago | 
kayakanglermag.com | Doug Olander
Home Stories Features Spring Fever: What’s Biting Near You Now? FacebookTwitterPinterestEmailMix Spring is a time of renewal embraced by kayak anglers, for whom the season means a return to fantastic fishing. Southern anglers realize a seasonal surge in activity as target species put on the feed bag to migrate and spawn. Northern anglers celebrate the melt with fish waking up hungry.
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3 weeks ago | 
sportfishingmag.com | Doug Olander
Not All Fish Have Tail Fins A rare member of the family Molidae — the ocean sunfishes — is a unique sight. Question: About 90 nautical miles east of Paranagua, Brazil, in an area called Santos Basin — about 100 nautical miles offshore, pretty much in the middle of nowhere — we were drifting on an oil tanker, waiting to load crude oil off the platforms.
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4 weeks ago | 
sportfishingmag.com | Doug Olander
Although rarely, anglers in boats have been injured, even fatally, by sharks. Certainly a white shark like this one breaching off South Africa could destroy a small boat should it intend to. Chris & Monique Fallows / apexpredators.com Most of us don’t think of sport fishing as a particularly hazardous sport. No doubt statistics would bear out that it is not. But every sport has its own unique risks, and saltwater fishing is no exception.
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1 month ago | 
sportfishingmag.com | Doug Olander
A stingray’s barbed stinger is strictly for defensive purposes, but a strike from one can ruin the heck out of a wade-fisherman’s day. Tosh Brown / toshbrown.com Most of us don’t think of sport fishing as a particularly hazardous sport. No doubt statistics would bear out that it’s not. But every sport has its own unique risks, and saltwater fishing is no exception.
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1 month ago | 
sportfishingmag.com | Doug Olander
No … Tag, You’re it! Amazing shot by Al McGlashan shows a striped marlin scoring one in the end zone of an angler attempting to tag it off Australia. Al McGlashan / almcglashan.com Most of us don’t think of sport fishing as a particularly hazardous sport. No doubt statistics would bear out that it is not. But every sport has its own unique risks, and saltwater fishing is no exception.
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1 month ago | 
sportfishingmag.com | Doug Olander
1. Blacktip shark 2. Mahi 3. Kitefin shark 4. Crocodilefish 5. Redfish 6. Ballyhoo 7. Longtail bass 8. Humphead wrasse 9. Queen triggerfish 10. Mutton snapper 11. Blue marlin 12. Red grouper 13. Pacific sailfish 14. Blackfin tuna 15. Eyestripe surgeonfish 16. Gulper shark 17. Bluespotted puffer 18. Mutton snapper 19. Wenchman Doug Perrine(1, 3, 4, 8, 15, 17, 18), Adrian E. Gray(2, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 19), Capt.
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2 months ago | 
sportfishingmag.com | Doug Olander
QUESTION: My buddy Dan and I were fishing off the lava rocks in Kona, Hawaii, this summer and caught all kinds of different reef fish that we were able to identify after looking at pictures online and local fish-identification charts available on the island. But this one we couldn’t find anywhere. It looks like some type of triggerfish or unicorn fish, but none of them were this color nor had the spike pointing straight up.
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2 months ago | 
sportfishingmag.com | Doug Olander
The advent of super-strong braided lines necessitates tying super-strong knots. You can be sure this angler is putting his to a real test. Al McGlashan Over the years, Sport Fishing has produced several reader knot challenges. This challenge focused on knots used to create a double line, with the primary objective of finding which knots proved strongest and how those were tied.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
sportfishingmag.com | Doug Olander
There’s nothing like a chilly winter day to get an angler thinking about where he or she might go on that next big fishing trip. Pat Ford While most of us fish our own backyards most of the time, we also dream about traveling to some of the best fishing destinations. Dreaming and planning are two very different things, and sometimes it helps to have a list of the best fishing trips in the world to get started. Researching the destination? We’ve already done it for.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
saltwatersportsman.com | Doug Olander
We made the 20-minute run north to Bull’s Bay, appropriately named since I had hopes of hooking some of the big bull reds that move in there each fall. “October is the month for the biggest reds of all,” said Capt. Chance Smith, as he anchored up the 18-foot Shipoke flats skiff in the wind-blown chop. Smith said he’d caught them right at that spot to around 50 pounds. Big spot-tails, as reds are known in this area, roam the coast spring and fall.
