Chasing blue marlin, especially in tournaments, used to mean pulling out the big guns — those big gold Penn 80s and 130s that hold a mile of monofilament and cost more than my first car. But even ...

Some lessons aren’t easily forgotten. This is one. One early spring day, a friend and I were fishing for largemouth bass on a small lake — fishing as opposed to catching. After four hours, having ...

When the cool winds blow out of the Northeast and the waves offshore get large enough to be described as "sporty" or "dusty," it's time for the big boys to get rolling. Sailfish season has arrived.

For some, entering the final day of a prestigious sailfish tournament with the lead can be a little intense. But not for the crew fishing aboard Intents. Capt. Rhett Bailey, owner and angler Alan ...

LOS ANGELES—Quasar Science has released the Ossium Ladder, a flexible tube light rigging solution first shown at the BSC Show in London, Feb. 16-17. The Ossium Ladder was designed in collaboration ...

Fishing with fly rod or light conventional tackle on the rivers and billabongs and seacoast off Darwin, Australia, is, in the lexicon of guides and other facilitators of sport, “A bastard of a good ...

It’s been nearly 40 years since Peter Mahood set the men’s 20-pound-test-line class world record for black marlin with this incredible 1,051-pound fish, caught on October 7, 1976, out of Cairns, ...

Targeting the sporty and tasty white perch. This week on the Journal, we target the sporty and tasty white perch. In “Gear Time,” our anglers discuss how to go light in your tackle selection. We join ...