I was fishing off Venezuela in the late 1990s when a local mate showed me a hot dog — yes, a hot dog that you’d eat — that he had rigged with a Mustad live-bait hook. Shortly thereafter, he said, ...

It was a typical Spanish mackerel meeting - an on-the-water spring picnic, with dozens of boats of all sizes and descriptions off St. Augustine Inlet. Finding the fish meant simply finding the fleet, ...

It's spring, so king mackerel fishing is just now heating up for anglers in the Pensacola area. Each spring, the king mackerel migrate north in the Gulf of Mexico to their summertime spawning grounds.

The swimming mackerel is one of the world’s best set-ups when fooling a marlin into taking a bite. No matter where you fish, they will have no problem homing in on this relatively slow-swimming snack.

There are no guarantees in fishing, but catching Spanish mackerel in South Florida during the winter is as close as an angler can get to a sure thing. February is a great time to catch the fish from ...

I learned something new last week: There's a fine line between losing a $150 spinning rod and reel outfit and catching a Spanish mackerel. About a 10-pound test line, in fact. More on that later. Last ...

Mackerel are in local waters during the spring for the first time in many years, though there's a question as to whether it's a real "spring" run. Stripers turned on in Raritan Bay on Thursday, and ...

It's mid-summer and fishermen are bumping into all sorts of fish, including ones that might shock you. All puns aside, a surfcaster in the Seaside surf landed a northern stargazer while fishing from ...