“With warm weather this week, the tautog bite will improve,” said Dave Henault of Ocean State Tackle in Providence. “The water is cold. The temperature has to be around 50 degrees for the spring ...

Tautog is a great eating fish, and the bite is starting to explode in Massachusetts and Rhode Island waters. In both states, the minimum size is 16 inches with a catch limit of three fish/person/day, ...

Hello folks! Today we're on the saltwaters of Buzzard's Bay, jigging and drifting for black sea bass. We're rigged up with our favourite jig, the Flexi-Jig, baited with plastic artificial twister ...

The fall tautog season is in full swing in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The regulations up until and including Oct. 14 are a three-fish/person/day limit with a 16-inch minimum size, only one fish ...

Welcome to today's fish cooking episode of Thundermist Fishing Tips. Today we're going to be BBQ'ing some delicious tautogs.

Step back in time 20 or 30 years and most coastal anglers fishing between New England and the Mid-Atlantic weren’t very excited about catching tautog, also known as blackfish. Don’t misunderstand, ...

Tautog fishing exploded this week after things settled down from storms, high winds and rough seas. Fishing was good in our Bays, at jetties along our southern coastal shore, and off Point Judith, ...

If you haven’t fished a tautog tournament, this is the one to enter. The AnglerCatch RI Tog Classic will be held Sunday, Oct. 13, from sunrise to 2 p.m. There are more than $50,000 in prizes and great ...

MICHAEL SHEPHERD For The Press Feb 3, 2025 Feb 3, 2025 0 Fishers are stirring a little more as the skim ice melts away and creates more open water. Cabin fever seems somewhat less than it was. Fishing ...