Sheepshead, a three-part series. Part 1: catching sheepshead (and walleye, because when you're fishing for walleye you catch sheepshead - and when you're fishing for sheepshead, you catch walleye).

The fronts are picking up some steam. When they pass through, winds climb, rain falls hard for about 20 minutes and if you're caught on the water, you may feel a little vulnerable. But the good news ...

After weeks of tossing back perfectly fine but out of season sea bass, anglers can start keeping them Tuesday, when the fall season begins. Several party boats will target them. There will be breezy ...

Twenty years of free diving in the muddy waters of the Chesapeake Bay paid off for Todd Elder two weeks ago. The 38-year-old from Virginia Beach set a world record for the International Underwater ...

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” — John Steinbeck, “Travels with Charley: In Search of America” Steinbeck must have loved catching bluefish because ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Casting the weed beds and rocky shoreline around East Harbor on the Marblehead Peninsula last week, I felt a bump on a small Ned Rig. Tightening the light line and turning the reel ...

Sheepshead are moving into the gulf to spawn, which is an opportunity to catch one weighing more than 5 pounds. They will hang over the rock piles on the outside of Egmont Key, most of the markers ...

Captain Chase Krutzky, like many local fishing captains, hasn’t been as busy in 2024 as he was in years past. “This time last year I had more trips in January and February,” explained Krutzky, who ...

The other day I wrote about redfishing, which was the main goal when my family visited Louisiana a few weeks ago. Today I want to cover some of the side fishing that we did. First I have to deviate on ...

Todd Elder speared the 17.4-pound world record fish this May at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. He talked about how it all went down, all the different uses for the fish, and his dog Gator. Todd ...