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 is one of the tastiest of all saltwater fishes, but somewhat surprisingly not all that popular. No doubt some of this lack of popularity has to do with the blackfish’s reluctance to be ...

On his visit to Brielle, artist Som Park demonstrated Gyotaku, a Japanese art form to make traditional fish prints, on a ...

Winter may be on the way, but water temperatures in Long Island Sound are still hovering in the low 60s, so when the small craft advisories are not up, which they were much of this week, fishing can ...

The wind was blowing a stout 15 knots out of the southeast, making it hard for local inshore guide Yano Serra to cast the fly. He was trying to get the shrimp imitation in front of a tripletail -- ...

The winter fishing pattern continues to hold with blackfish being pursued by anglers on the inshore reefs and rock piles out to about 100 foot of water, and cod, pollock and porgies being landed on ...

THE weather finally turned, bringing cold temperatures and windy conditions, the elements for good fall fishing for big stripers and blackfish. Last weekend’s brush with tropical storm Noel also got ...

Right now it shouldn’t be a surprise that mackerel and whiting are in force along the northern Jersey coast, but what may be news to many fishermen is that blackfish are still being caught in good ...

That said, on to fishing. The action continues down the shore and while the blackfish regulations have cut the bag limit to four fish, that still means you can keep four ‘tog and since a 15-inch size ...

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 ...