A new high school sports competition—a student bass fishing tournament—took place in New Hampshire on Thursday, May 9, 2013. This year, 136 students from 44 New Hampshire schools took part. The winning team was Connor Farrington and Cam Sterritt...

Goose Hummock Shop in Orleans reports that weakfish have been taken in Chatham, along with some other noteworthy catches. Here’s the scoop: We thought it might happen this way: In a 2-day period the fishing blew wide open this...

Providence Journal: Large schools of striped bass moved into the Bay Thursday morning. They were chasing bait in the waters off Barrington, Providence Point and Bear Point, said Ken Landry. He caught several fish on an Atomic Chicken Slug-Go....

Did you know that Maine has designated certain bodies of water where kids 15 and under can fish? Here, Emily MacCabe of the Maine Dept. of Inland Fish & Wildlife focuses on the Wilson Stream youth fishing area: “A...

Here are a dozen of my favorite places to catch fluke (summer flounder) in Rhode Island. In general, I look for drop-offs, bottom structure, channel edges and deep water, particularly in warm weather. In spring the fish tend to...

Rhode Island DEM has raised the bag limit for black sea bass during the September-through-December season to 7 fish/day. According to Jason McNamee, principal marine biologist at the DEM Division of Marine Fisheries: “There was an adjustment to the...

May is squid time in New England. When the water temperature reaches 50 to 55 degrees, the 10-armed marine mollusks migrate inshore and gather in protected estuaries, bays, coves and harbors. Once their predators (namely bluefish, fluke, seabass and...

The Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection has designated Sunday, May 12, 2013, as a “Free Fishing Day”, which means that no license is required to fish the state’s fresh and salt waters. Note that other rules and...

A report released by the American Sportfishing Association (ASA) makes a powerful case that from an economic perspective, recreational fishing is just as important as commercial fishing, despite a much lower overall impact on the resource. According to the...