Tautog fishing comes down to location, tackle, and technique. Here are a few tips to get started. 

With a face only a mother could love, the tautog is beloved by fishermen throughout the Northeast

Join On The Water’s Angling Adventures’ host Chris Megan and Captain Bj Silvia of Flippin’ Out Charters on Narragansett Bay as they work structure for bottom-dwelling tautog.

The fish, caught by Pete McCusker of Medford, NJ on a white-legger crab, measured 32 inches in length and weighed a whopping 23 pounds, 10 ounces.

For New England stripers, the end is nearing, but for New England tautog, the best is right now.

Several record-breaking blackfish were caught last season, including a new world record tautog.