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, ...

“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 ...

The author with a Rhode Island tautog that picked up a jig fished on ultra-light spinning tackle. Step back in time 20 or 30 ...

Here's what happens when luck, foresight, and skill come together when an angler is out fly fishing for Striped Bass. World record tautog (blackfish) caught by Sam Alsop. / photo provided by Sam Alsop ...

This week Ivo, Phil, and Vincenzo take you out to the salt waters of Cape Cod as they bait up with Viper Spoons and Boa Jig'r ...

Fishing for tautog, or black fish, has been great. Anglers in Narragansett and Mt. Hope Bays are hooking up, and the bite along the southern coastal shore has been good with those fishing off Newport ...

A Connecticut angler and his boat captain have reeled in a fish of a lifetime. Aiden Cole has caught a massive 36 inch, 28.75 -pound tautog — better known as a "taugzilla" among the marine community.

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 ...

The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) caught three Massachusetts men with dozens of undersized fish ...

“This is the largest tautog I have ever caught,” said Jeremy Webster of Pawtucket as he lifted his rod high to prevent the fish from going back down into structure. Webster's fish was in the low ...

If you have not tried spring tautog fishing, now is the time to do it as the spring season in Rhode Island closes May 31. It was a great fall tautog season, and this spring has been outstanding, too.