Surf fishing and be a bit intimidating to the uninitiated. It’s you against a vast ocean, and even though some lakes are huge, you still feel like the fish are confined enough that you have a shot.

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Today's Fishing Q&A is about pole sizes for surf fishing, treble hooks or single hooks, and rigs for dock fishing. Question 1: How long should my fishing pole be for surf fishing? Question 2: Do you ...

Striped bass feed aggressively in the surf at night, and fall is the time to catch them on the New Jersey coast. Fishing at night for stripers in the surf requires know-how and research beyond just ...

UNION HALL - Rex Smith must be crazy. Why else would this man, whom I consider a good friend, call me Tuesday afternoon to say he was catching the heck out of stripers at Smith Mountain Lake? "You ...

Black sea bass season has finally reopened and will continue until Dec. 31, now reinstituted with a 15-fish bag limit and 12.5-inch minimum size. All indicators point to some excellent sea bass ...

The fall run of migratory striped bass broke wide open in the ocean today as both boaters and surfcasters got their shots. Shore party boats ran into bunkers and bass as soon as they cleared their ...

Carey Kilgannon of The New York Times had a great story today about fishing for striped bass from shore at the Montauk Lighthouse on Long Island in New York. It sounds like they’ve brought combat ...

For the first time this fall, fishermen are seeing a run of bass in the surf. Albeit, they're predominantly schoolie-size bass stacked up in the wash but at least one tackle shop reported surf fish ...