6 am Friday Oct 12 2012, had out The A-Team Leader General Kalvin(FishScale), Mad Mike and Larry(Wader) for his 1st ever TOP WATERSTRIPER!!! At 1st it was a VERY Slow go with a Strong SW winds blowing against out going tide made us spin around in circles tangle up the lines. Tried [...]
Eel Fishing
Angler Catches Near-Record Bonito in Massachusetts
Ryan King had a pretty good Columbus Day surprise. He caught this 11-pound, 13-ounce bonito while fishing out of Monomoy, Massachusetts. The state record is 13 pounds, 8 ounces, so had this football of a tuna eaten a few more sand eels, it might have come even closer. – Rick Bach Photo: On The Water [...]
Photographers Capture Californian Underwater Monsters
They have names like fangtooth fish, dog-faced witch eel, and Pacific viperfish, and they’re all swimming off the coast of California. Photographer and biologist David Wrobel didn’t need to head to the depths of the Pacific to find these fish though, as scientists have them about ready to go on display at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, [...]
Maine to Conduct Lottery for Valuable Eel-fishing Licenses
Elvers, a small eel that was once common in Maine, are growing increasingly popular among recreational fishermen. Maybe that’s because the fish fetch as much as $50 million annually, putting them behind only lobsters as Maine’s number-1 money fish. The fish are sold, typically, on the international market and are considered a delicacy in Asia. [...]
Underwater Creature Nearly Chomps Man’s Finger Off in Florida
Anytime you’re cleaning fish in the water, putting fish blood in the water, you’re opening yourself up for some predators to come in, and it lead to one man nearly losing his finger. According to WSVN.com, a man from south Florida was cleaning some fish in the water off Virginia Key. Suddenly an unidentified underwater creature [...]
The GoFISHn Line-The Best Catches and Fishing News: 13-Foot Great White in Mass, $65,000 Whale Feces, and More!
There are a lot of awesome posts on GoFISHn throughout the week. Here are 10 of our most popular, most recent GoFISHn updates: Update: Record Horseshoe Crab Structure Smashed as its Sinks – 113,000 pounds of crab, in pieces… 8-Year-Old British Boy Finds $65,000 Whale Feces – This is some special poop! 13-Foot Great White Washes Up [...]
An Eel Pout in September?
This is a pretty surprising catch for early in September. We had an Eel Pout sighting, lurking in the shallows. This is heather’s favorite fish and a welcomed surprise!
Block Island Bass Slam
Took Andrew Esposito and son Chris on a night eeling charter on Tues. We started on the Elbow and then the Hump with no luck. The sunset was beautiful. After some fruitless drifts, we decided to head over to Block, as a number of buddies were heading over. It turns out that four of the [...]
Cape Cod Striped Bass Fishing at its Absolute Finest
Sometimes you spend hours upon hours searching for fish. Other times you find the fish, and spend hours knocking them over the head with everything in the tackle box just trying to get that one bite. And then there are days when you find tons of fish and they eat whatever you throw at them. [...]
Big Day for Three Generations of Anglers on Moondance Charters
We headed out with Jack and son Jeffrey and grandson John for a half day trip. We left at about 6:30 and headed out to Phelps ledge for the ebb. We put down our eels and immediately got a nice striped bass. All of a sudden, as if someone threw a switch, the fog enveloped [...]
