Top Record-Setting Bonefish, America's Oldest Tackle Shop Reopens, Rare Redfish Hybrid Caught in Florida

From: Salt Water Sportsman - Thursday Aug 25,2022 09:30 pm

The Mysterious Oarfish

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Bonefish Records

The Ten Best Bonefish Records of All Time

Skinny water anglers cherish that acute sense of accomplishment that comes from successfully stalking a bonefish, executing a perfect cast, setting the hook and then carefully working the fish to hand.

America’s Oldest Tackle Shop Reopens

Famed for the 24-foot neon sign marking its unlikely presence in the most urban of American cities, Capitol Fishing Tackle has relocated to the suburbs. The 125-year-old shop moved from Manhattan to Freeport, N.Y., just east of the city on Long Island’s south shore.

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Oarfish

The Mysterious Oarfish

The myth of the oarfish’s ability to predict disasters gained some momentum relatively recently, when it was said that the fish were seen near the surface shortly before the massive 2011 tsunami in Japan that caused the Fukashima nuclear disaster. There are other instances where oarfish have shown up around the same time as earthquakes and/or tidal waves.

Redfish Hybrid

Rare Redfish Hybrid Caught in Florida

Although redfish and black drum are both in the Sciaenidae family, they spawn in distinctive areas and at different times of the year. To see a hybrid of the two species in the wild is very rare.

Maine Trout

Maine Angler Lands 10-Pound Brown Trout in the Surf

One of the allures of fishing in the ocean is you’re never sure exactly what you’re going to catch. But landing a 10-pound brown trout in the open-ocean in Maine, from shore, on a topwater lure, is not really something you’d ever expect.

Scrub Island tournament

Fish Legendary Waters

The waters of the North Drop still offer the most consistent blue marlin fishing in the Atlantic. Scrub Island Resort, Marina and Spa is the gateway to it all in the British Virgin Islands, so make plans now to attend the Scrub Island Invitational, scheduled for Sept. 6-10 and Sept. 10-14, 2022.

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Don’t miss Marlin University in Kona

This is your last chance to join Marlin University for an epic blue marlin fishing adventure. Your instructors, along with the crews on the Legend, Marlin Magic, 2nd Offense and Benchmark, will teach you heavy tackle fishing techniques.

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