Knowing and sharing the realities of deepwater fishing, from barotrauma to release survival, isn’t about discouragement. It’s ...

Fighting big, bulky gear takes the fun out of fighting the fish, but the latest deep-drop gear puts the fish back in ...

It was a “fudge up” that still haunts me to this day.** Many, many moons ago, two friends and I were enjoying a solid day of dolphin fishing off Key Largo. With a boxful of fish, we began the 22-mile ...

Lightweight, vented, and quick-drying, the Columbia Whipray shoe isn’t just designed with its Omni-Wire support, it also has channels built in to manage “water evacuation and air cooling” (their words ...

The Robalo R277 Dual Console blends hardcore fishability with family-friendly comfort, delivering a vessel that excels whether you’re chasing offshore gamefish or enjoying a leisurely day on the water ...

I love to watch a professional fishmonger clean fish. They work in well-lit, sanitary spaces wearing a hair net, rubber apron, rubber gloves and rubber boots. They dance with the fish, swinging and ...

Grady-White’s new Express 340 represents a reimaginged Express 330 with more deck space, more fishability and more luxury. Underneath it all lies Grady-White’s SeaV² continuously variable V-hull. The ...

A blue marlin is a major challenge on conventional tackle. On a fly rod, it can be the catch of a lifetime. After all, hooking, fighting and landing a fish endowed with a three-foot bill and 200 ...

Night-vision technology for boaters has evolved mightily since I began following and testing these devices 30 years ago. Among the first were marine night-vision scopes from ITT Industries. Adapted ...

It was crisp and drizzly as Capt. Brian Williams wheeled our skiff across the shallow back bays near Atlantic City, New Jersey. He eventually shut the outboard some 100 feet shy of a marsh point and ...

With Florida’s red snapper season stretched to a record 126 days in the Gulf, and momentum building to expand access on the Atlantic side, there has never been a better time to dial in your ...

When I first used a spiral-wrapped rod on a party boat, I got some strange looks,” Darin Dohi laughs. Dohi’s conventional rod had the first line guide on top of the blank, the second guide at an ...