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The black sea bass is a type of Grouper (Serranidae) found more commonly in northern than in southern ranges. It inhabits the coasts from Maine to NE Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico. There are three large biomass populations of black sea bas

The grey triggerfish is a triggerfish of the western Atlantic, found from Nova Scotia to Argentina. It is also reported from the Mediterranean sea and off Angola on the west coast of Africa.  In its appearance and habits, the Gray Trigge

It’s been hot in Hatteras the first 2 weeks of August, but the fishing has improved. The water has been hot in the sound all the way out to the Gulf Stream, but that hasn’t stopped the fishing. The Wahoo fishing has picked up

August is wrapping up and it has been a good one. The offshore bite has been hit or miss, but the Wahoo have started moving into the area. On one of the trips we caught a nice 46 pound Wahoo and a 23 pound one after gutted. A few Blackfin Tuna and D

Fished on Wednesday and caught some Blackfin Tuna, Black Seabass, Amberjack, and False Albacore around 280 Rocks. Bites were on jigs for the Tuna and AJ. Bottom rigs for the Sea Bass.

NL 17 high and low water game fish Photo – Paul Braeger deep baited for this 20-pound Gag grouper while fishing offshore at Amelia Island’s popular FA live bottom. Photo – Black sea bass are numerous offshore and are excellent eatin

Black Sea Bass

Matt of Chasin Tails Outdoors reports that bottom fishing offshore has produced limits of grouper around the Atlas Tanker and 17 Rock areas. Black sea bass ring tails and amberjacks are also mixed in and cigar minnows squid and sardines have been the

Offshore: Today is opening day of Black Sea Bass season as the entire head boat fleet is out in search of them and other bottom dwellers. We also had a boat return from an over night offshore trip and unloaded a bunch of meat onto the docks. They ha

Kiptopeke Concrete Ships has some decent Croaker, Striped Bass, and Black Sea Bass on them. 

AR-255 - Buoy   Small Black Sea Bass. Good trolling for mackerel and bonita. 

 The Big Duck 5 has sailed a few times without me. Today I made my first reel trip. Gerald had a nice tip from a Dive Boat Operator that the D Wreck was crawling with American Red Snappers and the bottom was paved with Flounders. Bobby Edward&#

Offshore: This morning we had the Rebel WaveRunner and High Hopes all head out to the deep water offshore. The High Hopes returned with a nice catch of Blueline Tilefish and a few Black Sea Bass in the mix of things. The WaveRunner pulled into their

 While playing around this morning with a cast net I caught a jumbo Jumping  Mullet and app 75lbs of Menhaden. Impressive but a useless mess. A short time later a 20 Red Drum found my bucktail. So as 4 hungry Ferry Crewmen stared at 2 edib

 Brandon and I have once again took on the challenge of feeding the Ferry Crew. Two took bottom rigs and a sack of shrimp and off we went..... Two solid hours of fishing later and I'm at Piggly Wiggly buying Seafood Breader and Vegetable Oi

In this case my circle hook did just what it was intended to do as it hooked this small keeper right in the lip. The fish was released in good shape. If you are a bait fisherman who fishes for striped bass in MA inline circle hooks will be required

We fished from the boat yesterday in Buzzards Bay.  As we were catching fish after fish my brother Steve remarked You know we have NEVER had a bad day in Buzzards Bay.   Sure enough this is the closest thing to a sure bet in fishing especia

It's almost BLACK SEA BASS SEASON in Virginia. The season opens May 15 and while I have some dates booked I still have a few dates available. Spring black sea bass season is one of my favorite times of the year because our charter season gets ki

Redd of Island Tackle reports that anglers bottom fishing offshore around the 25-30 mile area have connected with black sea bass grunts and snapper. The baits of choice have been cigar minnows and squid. Those fishing the Gulf Stream have caught seve

Now that things are getting back to normal I will be fishing the summer months in Alaska personally this August through the first week of September. Most dates are booked but I do have some availability for trips for Halibut Salmon Cod Rockfish like