The swimming mackerel is one of the world’s best set-ups when fooling a marlin into taking a bite. No matter where you fish, they will have no problem homing in on this relatively slow-swimming snack.

I was fishing off Venezuela in the late 1990s when a local mate showed me a hot dog — yes, a hot dog that you’d eat — that he had rigged with a Mustad live-bait hook. Shortly thereafter, he said, ...

Where you should go: The Mud Hole remains the best bet for mackerel, though some are being caught in many other areas. What you should use: Mackerel jigging rigs. Why today is a good day for this: It ...

There’s an old saying, “better late than never” and that sure applies to this year’s mackerel run along the Jersey coast. The abnormally warm weather we’ve been having this winter has kept water ...

This is the second of a two-part bait rigging series covering swimming ballyhoo, rigging for king mackerel and strip baits. King mackerel are notorius for being short hitters; meaning they normally ...

It's spring, so king mackerel fishing is just now heating up for anglers in the Pensacola area. Each spring, the king mackerel migrate north in the Gulf of Mexico to their summertime spawning grounds.

The inshore fishing continues to be entertaining. The party boats that are making daily trips to the bluefish grounds are finding the late summer water is churning out many different species of fish.

With the first official day of summer a few weeks off, it is time to reflect on what late spring means to saltwater anglers. As the water temperature reaches the 60s and 70s, many migratory fish ...