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Strange Catches While Fishing

1 week 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.
Bucktail Jigs Catch More Fish

2 weeks ago | sportfishingmag.com | Lenny Rudow

Bucktail jigs might seem old-fashioned, but they’ve come a long way and are still productive at times when other artificials fail to entice strikes. Capt. Tim Simos / BluewaterImages.net The latest fishing report said so, right there in print: The hot lure du jour was a white bucktail. This seemed rather hard to believe. Haven’t bucktails been obsolete for decades?
Winter Flounder Fishing in the Northeast

3 weeks ago | sportfishingmag.com | Nick Honachefsky

By mid-April to the end of May, winter flounder fishing is in its prime. Not to be confused with summer flounder or fluke, winter flounder are right-eyed fish. Nick Honachefsky While most anglers in the New Jersey and New York areas are laser-focused on the first stripers of the spring run, a contingent of dedicated, diehard anglers brandishing small caliber rods and reels are inside the back bays hanging to the sides of 16-foot aluminum boats.
The Strongest Double Line Fishing Knot

3 weeks 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.
Best Pedal Fishing Kayaks

4 weeks ago | sportfishingmag.com | Sam Hudson

If you can ride a bike or e-bike, jump into a pedal kayak. The future of kayak-fishing is hands-free movement, with help from advanced pedal systems. Pictured, a striped bass. Courtesy Old Town In 1997, Hobie’s MirageDrive delivered a new way to kayak-fish by incorporating pedaling with the feet as a source of movement. The pedal-driven propulsion system was innovative, allowing anglers to put down the paddle in the kayak.
Top Fishing Spots and Destinations

1 month ago | 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.
How to Identify Fish on Sonar

1 month ago | sportfishingmag.com | Chris Woodward

Striped bass make definitive sonar marks. Inset: Bait and stripers on a Simrad NSS evo3 screen. The left side features a single, custom-frequency chirp view; the right shows the detail of imaging sonar. Ethan Gordon, Courtesy Simrad (inset) Technology creates a tug of war among generations — whether we’re talking smartphones or marine electronics. Old Salts often prefer traditional fish finders with 50/200 kHz transducers: the better to see a bright-red fish blob.
What Gamefish Do Sharks Eat?

2 months ago | sportfishingmag.com | Sam Hudson

Shark depredation can occur on the flats, all the way out to deep oceanic waters. A recent study looked at what Southeast U.S. offshore anglers were experiencing the last couple years. Courtesy Return ‘Em Right Sharks are a problem. At least that’s what many anglers point out when fishing for bottom fish in the Southeast. Scientists call it “shark depredation” — when your catch gets eaten before you can bring it to the boat.
New World Record Cobia Caught

2 months ago | sportfishingmag.com | Nick Carter

A 175-pound cobia caught off Perth, Australia is the heaviest ever on rod and reel. From left are Capt. Drew Clowes, Koby Duncan and Harley Jarosz. Courtesy Jazz Charters A 175-plus-pound record cobia — the largest caught on rod and reel ever recorded — wouldn’t have made it to the boat if the angler had listened to his captain. “It was a great catch by the young man,” said Capt. Drew Clowes, of Jazz Charters in Perth, Australia.
Kayak Fishing the Everglades

2 months ago | sportfishingmag.com | Nick Carter

Backcountry fishing in the Florida Everglades out of Flamingo features a vast web of brackish water and species like tarpon, snook, redfish and others. Andrew Redwine The Florida Everglades are a million and a half acres of wetland famously called a river of grass. From the water at Flamingo, it’s more of a mangrove jungle.