100 Days off the Boat: B2B Castaways Document a Cape York Sailing Season Built Around Fish, Crabs and Indonesian Fleets
B2B Castaways drop a 100-day movie following Strick and Fran's first sailing season aboard their refit catamaran Ramalicious - Spanish mackerel on the first night, mud crabs the size of forearms, and more illegal Indonesian fishing boats than Australian ones off the west coast of Cape York.
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Anglers Annapolis: Chesapeake Bridge Bite Is On as the May Slot Reopens
Anglers Annapolis store hands Adam and Tim deliver a wide-angle Chesapeake Bay update for the second week of May 2026, with the bridge bite firing for slot rockfish, blue catfish thick from the Susquehanna to the Potomac, and the surf finally popping with bluefish, drum and the first sea mullet of the year.
Ryan Moody on the Winter Switch: Resident Spaniards, Headland GTs, and Why Ciguatera Still Matters
Long-time North Queensland charter operator Ryan Moody steps through the seasonal change underway across the Australian east coast — separating migratory Torres Strait mackerel from the bigger resident inshore Spaniards, mapping where golden trevally and GTs aggregate in winter, and revisiting a personal ciguatera scare from his marlin-boat years.
Mother's Day on the Gold Coast: Doug Burt's Saturday Window for Snapper, Tailor and Dollies
With four-metre swell out wide and a 20-knot Sunday blowout looming, Doug Burt's Tackle World gave Gold Coast anglers a single Saturday morning window into a snapper-on-pillies, tailor-thick, FAD-loaded long weekend.
Florida's Trout Run Is the Best in a Decade - and Capt Jeff Paige's Popping-Cork Rig Is Why It Matters
Florida Insider Fishing Report's May 2026 episode crowned speckled sea trout the species of the moment, with Capt Mike Anderson labelling it the best he has seen in 10 years and Capt Jeff Paige sharing a 1/16-ounce popping-cork tweak Aussie estuary anglers can pinch outright.
NC Lawmakers Move to Halt All Marine Fisheries Rule Changes for 11 Years
A pair of North Carolina Senate bills would suspend any new marine fisheries rules until 2037 and roll recreational regulations back to 2019 levels - a major regulatory pause flagged on the May 7 Saltwater Report and challenged by the Coastal Conservation Association.
Two Foreign Fishing Vessels Seized North of Cape Wessel by HMAS Cape Woolamai
An Australian Border Force boarding north of Cape Wessel has netted two foreign fishing vessels operating without authorisation, with both crews now headed to Darwin under the AFMA-led investigation.
Coast Goes Off: Blinkoff Lifts a 46-Inch Glide-Bait Cow as the Striper Floodgates Finally Open
Kevin Blinkoff's 46-inch glide-bait cow in Narragansett Bay has come to symbolise the moment the May 2026 striper migration finally lit up. From Maryland surf beaches to a Cape Cod Canal herring blitz, On the Water's May 5 report tracks a coast-wide bait push - and host Matt Haeffner's nine-year pre-May streak saved by ten minutes.
SoCal's Full Moon Lie: Carl Schmidt Watches San Diego Long-Range Fleet Limit on Bluefin
Carl Schmidt's May 7 Fisherman's Landing weekly puts a torch to the old 'fish don't bite on the full moon' saying, with SoCal long-range fleet returning limits of bluefin in the 25 to 50lb bracket, jackpot fish over 130lb and a tackle list worth borrowing.
Ikijime Tool's 2026 Refresh Adds 200+ Species and a Faster Brain Search
Australia's home-grown Ikijime Tool app has dropped a 2026 release that pushes its species count past 200 and reworks the back-end database to deliver faster x-ray overlays for humane dispatch.
Bay Rats and a Mango Salsa: Hutchinson Reads NJ's Cold Fluke Opener From Scott's Dock
Jim Hutchinson Jr. of The Fisherman Magazine pegs Margate's Scott's Dock as the frame for the 2026 New Jersey fluke opener — one 18-inch flatty in the box, a mango-habanero salsa breakfast and a forecast that finally tilts warm.
Reef Addicts Score a 96 cm Top End Barra on a Cyclone-Sandwiched Helicopter Mission
The Reef Addicts crew tick a long-talked-about box, chartering Nautilus Helifish into Top End floodplain country between two active cyclones and walking out with a 96 cm barramundi, a chrome threadfin salmon and a string of mid-80s class fish across two helicopter drops.