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Coast Guard May Remove Buoys

2 weeks ago | sportfishingmag.com | Kevin Falvey

Hundreds of Aids to Navigation are being considered for removal, the US Coast Guard announced, as shown on this screen shot of an interactive map produced by private company Great Harbor Digital. Courtesy Great Harbor Digital I can remember one of my earliest boating trips as a youth. The fog came on thick and I had to pick my way home through shallows.
New Regs for Cali Salmon and Sand Bass

3 weeks ago | sportfishingmag.com | Nick Carter

For the first time since 2022, California will open a limited summer and fall season for ocean salmon. California anglers have a couple of reasons to be happy about their prospects for this summer’s fishing. For the first time in several years, there will be an ocean salmon fishing season. Also, the looming shutdown of the popular barred sand bass fishery has been forestalled.
Snelling a Hook, How to Tie a Snell Knot

4 weeks ago | sportfishingmag.com | Sam Hudson

Do you remember in the early 2000s when pork was branded “the other white meat”? I think of snelling a hook as “the other fishing knot.” Although not as common as everyday knots, the versatile snell knot can be used with different styles of hooks, different techniques and different strength leaders. Plus, it’s easy to tie. While researching this column, I realized just how many ways there are to snell a hook, whether it’s a uni-style or traditional snell wrap.
Strange Catches While Fishing

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

2 months 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

2 months 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.