Springers: The Finest Salmon For Eating
Springers can be a challenge to catch — try hooking into a powerful fish that burns off 100 feet of line!
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Redfish: Incredible Year-Round Action
Eric Muhoberac is a fishing guide on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, where Jean Lafitte once plied his pirate’s trade. Muhoberac calls Louisiana redfish some of the best fishing in the world. “It’s an addiction. You probably won’t fish freshwater again,” said Muhoberac, who operates Louisiana Paradise Charters and Tours. “The closest I can describe it is that it’s like bass fishing with a lot more ‘umph.'”
READ MORE ›Sight-Casting To Cunning Tripletails
Anglers don’t usually associate sight-fishing with the deep water offshore, but keeping an eye (and a crab or shrimp) peeled can put more tripletails in the boat. Also called blackfish, tripletail range throughout the warm waters of the world. Looking something like a dark brown bluegill on bad steroids, tripletail can exceed 40 pounds!
READ MORE ›Cobia: These Vicious, Delicious Fish Add To Any Catch!
Highly mobile, cobia roam salty waters seeking what they can devour. Also called lemonfish or ling, these vicious and
delicious predators can exceed 100 pounds! They usually lurk around reefs, wrecks, oil platforms or other hard structure, but could cruise weed lines or hide under such floating objects as wooden crates, buoys or anything that might offer shade and a chance to ambush baitfish.
Sarasota’s Sensational Tarpon Fishing Options
To be fully appreciated, tarpon must be seen and experienced. Hook up with one of these silver rockets, and the encounter will leave even the most seasoned angler stunned and amazed, with hands trembling and heart racing.
READ MORE ›Tarpon Time At Florida’s Egmont Key
Anglers come to Florida’s Egmont Key for the tarpon fishing! May-September tarpon congregate around the key.
READ MORE ›Big Oregon Halibut
Hunter Radley sets the hook, and yells, “Fish on.” The heavy fish is eventually brought to the surface, harpooned and boated. Ten-year-old Hunter’s first halibut is a 79-pounder! “It looks like the door on our refrigerator,” Hunter marvels. The fishing trip out of Newport, Ore., was off to a great start!
READ MORE ›Saltwater Fishing In The Lone Star State
On the way to my family’s spring Texas hog hunt from our home in Minnesota (I am 13 years old), we heard on the radio a forecast for 9- to 10 inches of rain at our hunting spot. We decided to delay the start our hunting trip and instead go fishing in Port Aransas, which is near Corpus Christi on the Texas Gulf Coast. We had a fun time!
READ MORE ›A Billfish Bonanza: One Boat Catches 102 Marlin In A Single Season!
A Pennsylvania couple enjoyed one of the most incredible offshore fishing seasons ever in 2008. Jim and Sandy McCarthy, along with their friends, aboard Jim’s boat Covert Mission out of Cape May, N.J., caught an astonishing 101 white marlin, one blue marlin, and one swordfish! The mind-boggling 103 billfish is a record for the Cape May Marlin and Tuna Club.
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