Swimming Shallow with Blackfish
Free-diving the shallows provides insight into the best tog habitat—and the best places to target them from shore.
Free-diving the shallows provides insight into the best tog habitat—and the best places to target them from shore.
For surfcasters from Cape Cod to New Jersey, the annual mullet run just ain't what it used to be.
Understand the pros and cons of both tog presentations to get more bites this fall.
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Yellowfin tuna take jigs and poppers south of Block, mahi push into inshore waters, and sea bass and tautog bite on bottom when albies are uncooperative.
During the fall run, portions of craggy coastline from Rhode Island to Maine offer surfcasters in pursuit of striped bass a deeper sense of adventure.
Bass, blues, albacore and bonito can be found blitzing on the plethora of small bait in the area.
When boulder-field bass are no-shows, save the day with blackfish.
Albies arrive in Rhody, bluefish and striped bass eat topwater plugs around sunrise, and tautog fishing improves while the fluke bite bundles.