Don't risk your tackle and gear while you're en route to a fly-fishing dream destination.

An auspicious sight for any fly fisher: birds on the surface and gamefish underneath. Knowing the preferred foods of seabirds will tip you off to the right flies to throw into this sort of...

Nothing beats hooking a big fish. It doesn't matter if its a 26-inch brown, a 30-pound stripe, or a 10-pound large mouth; a trophy is a trophy. Nothing ruins a day of fishing more than breaking off your hoss as it runs for cover and hangs up in the weeds....

It's hard to find a more textured place than Newport, the historic summer resort city at the south end of Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. If you walk along Bellevue Avenue, you'll know what I'm talking...

The moon is down. the striped bass are in. And the water is black as night. Welcome to the dark side.

Estuaries are some of the sweetest saltwater fishing spots. They are seldom far from the crashing surf, strong tidal rips or surging rocks, but are protected by land and by trees which minimize the impact from the...

The Massachusetts North Shore- that stretch of coastline between Boston Harbor and the New Hampshire border- is a piece of turf where you can catch striped bass and still smell the pungency of rotting apples or cut hay drying in the sun. There are not many places...

One bright June day, I decided to check out a saltwater flat about a mile from my home. The wind was light and variable, the air temperature was in the mid-70's, and not a single cloud graced the...