For anglers using bait only, a conventional spool (baitcast) reel is a good choice, and if it has a bait clicker, all the better. A high-low rig is fine for weakies, as are specially designed “trout ...

One reason the one-weakfish-per-trip bag limit does not bother Long Island Sound anglers very much is that it's been a long time since any angler was lucky enough to catch one weakfish in a day. To be ...

Where you should go: The western end of Raritan Bay has been hosting weakfish since last week. There are also a lot of very small bluefish that interfere with getting jigs and bait to the weaks that ...

A few more stripers are being found in the backwaters, blackfish are loading up the offshore wrecks, and a long-awaited show of weakfish has moved into South Jersey waters. “I couldn’t believe we had ...

Late fall through the winter can offer some of the best action on our shallow nearshore reefs. They can be teeming with all sorts of fish species, including the weakfish. Weakfish, aka gray trout, are ...

It always amazes me how unpredictable local fishing can be, even in the heat of summer. Just when you think the bite is ready to settle into a pattern, one species or another tosses a curve. This week ...

What's the difference between a sand sea trout, a yellowmouth trout, a gray sea trout and a weakfish? If you live in Northeast Florida, the answer is likely to be - nothing. For the remainder of the ...

Water temps have now hit the 79-degree mark and there’s plenty of inshore pelagic opportunity to troll up in the form of mahi, little tunny, skipjacks and bonito. Offshore, white marlin fishing ...

The weakfish is one of the least understood of all pelagic fish. For some reason, their population has seesawed between abundance and scarcity. About the only connection biologists have been able to ...

Sorry for any confusion with last night's blog. The first time I tried to send my blog, an older column got published. Then half of what I wrote was lost from the new blog. Since the Thursday night ...

Anyone who fished at Port Canaveral in the 1970s and ‘80s can tell you stories about the hordes of Northern weakfish that were caught. January and February were the peak months for the seasonal ...