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1 week ago | 
thefisherman.com | Jim Hutchinson |Dave Anderson
The 14th annual Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest will run from April 24-17 with thousands of dollars in cash and prizes being awarded, with payouts to 10 places for the overall biggest shad and payouts to the top four fish for each day of the contest, plus bonus prizes.
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1 week ago | 
thefisherman.com | Dave Anderson |Jim Hutchinson
The International Game Fish Association (IGFA), the global authority on world records for all game fish species, is excited to announce the launch of new Junior Line Class and Junior Tippet Class World Record categories, giving anglers aged 16 and under even more opportunities to be recognized for their achievements on the water.
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1 week ago | 
thefisherman.com | Dave Anderson |Jim Hutchinson
Opening Day of trout season has just passed, on April 12, but the 60,000 fish stocked by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) in more than 100 freshwater locations, will provide great fishing all spring long. Some of these locations have been designated as ‘children only’ providing an enhanced fishing opportunity for youngsters across the Ocean State.
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1 week ago | 
thefisherman.com | Matt Broderick |Jim Hutchinson
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County (CCE) has been funded by National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) to provide education and outreach to New York’s for-hire fishing fleet as they transition to mandatory electronic reporting as of January 2025.
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1 week ago | 
thefisherman.com | Matt Broderick |Jim Hutchinson
The United States Power Squadrons will present “America’s Boating Course” (ABC), beginning at 8:30am on Saturday 3 May 2025 at Port of Egypt Marine in Southold. ABC is approved by NY State and is the finest course available for boaters to comply with the NY state boater education law*, as it provides essential information for new boaters or a great brush up for experienced boaters. The course is also approved by the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators and the U.S. Coast Guard.
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1 week ago | 
thefisherman.com | Matt Broderick |Jim Hutchinson
As waters warm, one of New York’s most beloved fish – the striped bass – is returning to our waters. Stripers are a favorite among New York anglers for their large size and impressive strength. Plus, the striped bass is New York’s o-fish-ally recognized state saltwater fish! You can have success striper fishing whether you’re in a boat, on the bank, or with a fly rod in your hand.
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2 weeks ago | 
thefisherman.com | Jim Hutchinson |Jenni Ackerman
NJ/DE Bay Region Fishing Forecast – April 10, 2025 April 10, 2025 by Jim Hutchinson, Jr.
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2 weeks ago | 
thefisherman.com | Jim Hutchinson |Dave Anderson
Stats from NOAA Fisheries and the U.S. Department of Interior have pegged the number of saltwater anglers in New Jersey at anywhere between 500,000 and 1.5 million over the past 20 years. Yet as of December 30, 2024, there were 117,809 individuals and 1,264 for-hire vessels registered for 2024 in the free New Jersey Saltwater Recreational Registry Program.
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2 weeks ago | 
thefisherman.com | Jim Hutchinson |Dave Anderson
You’ll typically see a news brief write-up about a Galloway fisheries meeting related to the New Jersey Marine Fisheries Council. However, before the volunteers on the state fisheries board can sort through the fish scraps, it’s up to the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC) to divvy things up along the coast. This week, MAFMC is also meeting in Galloway, the one meeting this year when representatives from many different Mid-Atlantic States gather here in the Garden State.
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2 weeks ago | 
thefisherman.com | Dave Anderson |Jim Hutchinson
We’ve all heard that false albacore taste like cat food and cook up to a putrid shade of greenish-gray, but if you survey an entire jetty of albie-chasers, you’ll be hard-pressed to find one that’s actually tried cooking them. At least, that used to be the case. In more recent years, the popularity of chasing these green torpedoes has skyrocketed and there’s been a growing number of albies finding their way onto dinner tables across the Northeast.
