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Optional Fins?

While fishing the docks near John's Pass in Madeira Beach, Florida, I caught a black drum that weighed about 3 or 4 pounds. It put up a good fight, but interestingly did so without a tail fin... Read More
Keys Mystery

I caught this fish in the Florida Keys but haven't been able to identify it. I hooked it on a shrimp-flavored Berkley Gulp! while fishing the flats around Pigeon Key for bonefish... Read More
No Lip Service

While fishing off Malindi, Kenya, I caught this sailfish that we estimated at around 60 pounds on a trolled strip bait... Read More
Fisherman Penalized for Landing Excessive Bluefin

Landing Excessive Bluefin Read More
Slammer Time

Pros Who Know Tell How They Take Trophy Dolphin Read More
Batfish Common in Indo-Pacific

I was fishing with cut squid on a reef near Koh Kut in the Gulf of Thailand with renowned guide Jean-Francois Helias of Bangkok when I hooked what I presume to be a batfish... Read More
Stomach Eversion Explained

While fishing out of Quepos, Costa Rica, I noticed that about one of every five billfish we caught had their stomachs protruding into their mouths, like bottomfish brought rapidly to the surface... Read More
As Far As the Eye Can See

I saw a story on an Internet news page about a scientist who invented a product that makes baits light up so that fish home right in on them... Read More
Why are Salmon Orange?

As an avid fisherman who lives in the Golden Gate area of California, I'm curious what makes the flesh of salmon and steelhead trout orange... Read More
Long Island Octopod

Last fall I was drifting for tuna and swordfish in 500 fathoms south of The Dip, located 70 miles southeast of Shinnecock Inlet, Long Island... Read More