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2 weeks ago | 
thefisherman.com | Tom Migdalski |Matt Broderick |Scott Newhall |Tony DUrso
Rips can be very fishy but approaching them requires calculation and caution. Rips provide three of the most important elements in fishing: structure, strong current, and concentrated forage. Some of the best rips, however, are also the largest and most treacherous. Understanding how and why rips form is the first step in fishing large rips safely. Rips are created during peak tides when water flows over bottom obstacles like ledges, reefs, banks, and shoals.
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3 weeks ago | 
thefisherman.com | Matt Broderick |Scott Newhall |Tony DUrso
Glass minnows may be tiny, but they call the shots in early summer. Have you ever leaned over the side of the boat or walked a dock in early June and caught that flickering glint just under the surface? Looks like a shimmer, like raindrops hitting the water – but it’s sunny, calm, dead still. That’s not weather. That’s glass minnows. And when they show up, everything inshore starts to change.
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1 month ago | 
thefisherman.com | Scott Newhall |Tony DUrso |Tom Migdalski
Shadow lines produce fish, day and night. I’ll never forget the first night I peered down from one of the bridges in Middle Keys in Florida. Two-dozen tarpon ranging from 30 to 150 pounds were staging just inside the shadows thrown by the street lights. They were waiting for mullet to mistakenly enter their deceptive trap. The mullet, seemingly aware of the impending danger, would scurry upstream every time they got within range of the patient tarpon.
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1 month ago | 
thefisherman.com | Tony DUrso |Scott Newhall |Tom Migdalski |Matt Broderick
Why not make the most of fishing for porgies by scaling down your tackle? The porgy or scup is one of the most plentiful species that lives in our waters, and can be counted on for rod-bending fun for anglers of all ages. They can be found from Maine to the Carolinas, and belong to the family of fishes called Sparidae. Porgies can reach lengths of 20 inches and weigh up to 5 pounds. I simply love to get some porgy trips in every year and look forward to the fine table fare that they provide.
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1 month ago | 
thefisherman.com | Scott Newhall |Tom Migdalski |Matt Broderick
What can a fisherman do to catch more poundage of fluke than grass? One of the most frustrating aspects of fluke fishing in the backwaters can be the presence of seaweed. A variety of grasses and algae in the water can range from a nuisance to flat-out ruining the fishing. Seagrasses and seaweed, however, are an important part of the ecosystem in the estuaries. They provide cover for both larval and juvenile fish along with other creatures such as crabs, shrimp and shellfish, to name a few.
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2 months ago | 
thefisherman.com | Scott Newhall |Bruce Edward Litton |George Schauer
“The key to fishing waterways with lumber understanding how the wood orients the trout.”Some wild and native trout streams are laden with naturally-gouged pools that hold a plethora of trout during all seasons of the year. Other creeks contain large boulders that create perfect pockets and eddies where larger trout command over the little guys.
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2 months ago | 
thefisherman.com | Bruce Edward Litton |Scott Newhall |George Schauer
Fishing pressure may be the leading cause of lockjaw when it comes to Northeast lakes. Early in the second week of May, Brenden Kuprel and I fish a local lake where we do perhaps the best fishing of the year. In 2023, we caught 46 fish in less than 6 hours; in 2024, same hours and 61 fish. Most were largemouth over 2 pounds, with pickerel to 26 inches, and we caught a few outsized bluegills to 9-1/2 inches, black crappies to 15 inches, and landlocked salmon as big as 19-1/2.
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Mar 24, 2025 | 
thefisherman.com | Tony Salerno |Charley Soares |Scott Newhall |Tom Melton
A spot that promises some of the first Peconic stripers of the season. Many years back – and I mean many years back, when flounder fishing was sensational during the spring inside the Peconic Bays – I recall one particular trip in late March. It was a chilly cloudy day with rain at times that would turn to snow and then rain again. To make matters worse, it was blowing pretty good from the bone chilling east.
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Feb 23, 2025 | 
thefisherman.com | Charley Soares |Scott Newhall |Tom Melton |Matt Broderick
“Be careful out there. I can hear them breaking from here.” Ernie was changing the oil on the inboard marine bass boat I helped him build four years prior. This was the third weekend we were blown out of a planned hunt for dolphin-sized bluefish off the west side of Nomans. The week prior to making those plans Ernie’s deckmate, Ed Joaquim boated a 19-pound, 8-ounce blue on a homemade Linesider popping plug there.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
thefisherman.com | George Schauer |Tom Pagliaroli |Scott Newhall
Late season bass can be tough, but it’s certainly worth the effort. When the leaves fall and the weather turns cold, many anglers are thinking of anything but bass fishing. While it can be a challenge, it’s a prime time of year to get into a late season trophy with the right tactics. Fishing in November and December usually means water is cold, but it’s typically the surface water which is cooler than the water down about 15 feet or so in larger bodies of waters.
