Sheepshead Bay’s recreational fishing fleet is reeling from a state edict that shortened the little known, but quite lucrative, blackfish fishing season — a business-killing measure that many now ...

The blackfish were stubborn but the fishermen were just as stubborn. Saturday was not an ideal day for bottom fishing with a southeast wind and swell building all morning. But, the rain that was ...

As I'm fond of saying, the fishing seasons change, but the fishing season never ends. As we bid adieu to another Hook, Line and Sinker season, I'd like to remind readers that our fishing coverage will ...

Wise folks know never to expect too much. That way, they're never disappointed. Since wisdom and I are, at best, nodding acquaintances, I'd let myself believe it was going to be a banner day for ...

Where you should go: Sea Girt Reef has been consistent for blackfish recently. What you should use: Green crabs. Why today is a good day for this: There's no swell to turn off bottom fish, and the ...

For the past few years, I nursed a mild guilt complex that I had never fished for blackfish. SHORT CASTS STATE OF WILD TROUT -- Biologist Mike Humphreys, head of the Connecticut Department of ...

North of the village of Hughes, in frigid, sluggish water, dim blue light penetrates 2 feet of lake ice. The ice has a quarter-size hole, maintained by a stream of methane bubbles. Every few minutes, ...

A Waretown man reeled in what looks to be a record-setting blackfish last weekend in Cape May, wrestling with a 25-pound, 8-ounce tautog to claim the new state mark. Chris Sullivan was among a group ...