Learning to Love Ice Fishing
Ice fishing is pretty low on my list of favorite fishing-related activities – it’s somewhere below handlining blue crabs and slightly above not fishing at all. But my last two trips on the ice have...
View ArticleOTW’s Field-Tested Favorites of 2017
Every winter, the staff at OTW compiles a list of the products they used and loved the previous season or everything from small pond bass to offshore tuna. Here’s a list of our Field Test Favorites...
View ArticleFish Beer Friday Review: Armada Brewing Neptune’s Dagger
Neptune’s Dagger Armada Brewing East Haven, CT 5.2% ABF $13.69 4 16-oz. cans First off, I’ll admit that this just barely qualifies as a fishy beer. There is no actual image of a fish, but there is a...
View ArticleStriper Holy Ground: The Vermont Avenue Jetty
When you enter Atlantic City by way of the AC Expressway, stay on Christopher Columbus Boulevard until it turns into South Missouri Avenue. At the first intersection, make a left on Pacific. Drive past...
View ArticleLunch Time Tournaments I – King of the Chain Pickerel
Introducing On The Water’s new web series, Lunch Time Tournaments. Every other week, a few members of the OTW Crew will be taking to the water on their lunch hour to compete for glory (and we’re pretty...
View ArticleVideo and Photos: Marlin caught off the tip of Cape Cod
Captain Bobby Rice, of Reel Deal Charters, out of Truro, Massachusetts, was swimming a live mackerel on the surface off Provincetown, targeting bluefin tuna, when a surprising species took the bait....
View ArticleThree Surf Rigs You Should Know About
Start with these three simple surf rigs and tweak the details to suit your surf scenario. Seeing a sand-spiked rod bend toward the waves is enough to get the heart beating fast, even before making the...
View ArticleMassachusetts Kettle Pond Trout
by Paul DiNolo Massachusetts Glacier Ponds The last ice age left Southeastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod the recipients of hundreds of wonderful freshwater ponds, the result of large masses of glacier...
View Article7 Striped Bass Fishing Techniques for Fooling Finicky Bass
by Bill Bertsch Terry Martuscelli caught this 32-pounder with a snagged bunker. It’s wise to always pack a few snagging hooks. You’ve found a school of stripers well within casting range, feeding...
View ArticleSpooky Fishing Stories
Last year around Halloween, we posted Ghost Stories of The Surf, and our readers shared some scary fish stories of their own in the comments section. Here are some of our favorites. Strangers in the...
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