Fishing for tautog (also called black fish) has been outstanding for the past four to five years. The fish have been abundant and quite large. This year, in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts, from ...

Rhode Island's spring tautog season opened April 1 and runs through May 31 with a three-fish limit. Tautog fishing experts recommend using white or Asian crabs, or clam bellies as bait. Anglers are ...

Catching a tautog, also called a blackfish, on a fly rod is no easy feat. You usually find the fish around rocks and boulders 20 to 30 feet down. The bite turns on when the current is moving, so it ...

Step back in time 20 or 30 years and most coastal anglers fishing between New England and the Mid-Atlantic weren’t very excited about catching tautog, also known as blackfish. Don’t misunderstand, ...

If you have not fished for tautog before, now is the time to give it a try while the catching is good and the catch limit is about to be increased. As of Oct. 15, the tautog limit in Massachusetts and ...

If you haven’t fished a tautog tournament, this is the one to enter. The AnglerCatch RI Tog Classic will be held Sunday, Oct. 13, from sunrise to 2 p.m. There are more than $50,000 in prizes and great ...

He was dragging that disgusting burlap bag across the sidewalks from the Brightman Street Bridge to his home on a side street off Lindsey in the north end of Fall River on a warm, mid-morning in May.

State conservation officers recently charged an Atlantic County angler with keeping dozens of undersized fish over a daily catch limit. Division of Fish and Wildlife conservation officers conducted ...

On the same day, two anglers fishing in Maryland set the first new state fishing records of 2015 by landing an 8-pound chain pickerel and a 28.8-pound tautog—which may also qualify as a new ...