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Sport Fishing

NOAA Doubles Bluefin Limit as New Science Challenges the Quota

NOAA has lifted the private-boat bluefin tuna daily limit to two fish from June 1, even as new tagging, larval and genetic research challenges the decades-old assumptions behind the quota that closed the fishery last summer.

Sport Fishing

Two Barra Comps, One Big Week: Weipa Booms, the Daly Rebuilds

Australia's two biggest June barramundi comps ran the same week and told opposite stories. Weipa's 21st Fishing Classic packed out while the NT's Barra Nationals fought back from a record flood.

Sport Fishing

When the Fish Turn Fat: A Cape York Lesson in Eating With the Seasons

On the freshwater creeks of the Archer River system near Coen, a Kaanju traditional owner shares the knowledge that tells him exactly when a sweetlip is worth keeping, a seasonal calendar that no tackle shop can teach.

Sport Fishing

A 95cm Murray Cod and a Belly Full of Mystery on an Overnighter

An after-work overnighter on a remote river turned into a personal-best haul of Murray cod, headlined by a 95cm fish so swollen the anglers reckoned it had eaten something the size of a duck. The slow-burn session delivered its best fish right at last light.

Sport Fishing

Anglers Annapolis Calls It: Chesapeake Rockfish, Surf Drum and First Canyon Mahi as Maryland's Memorial Weekend Bite Lines Up

Sam and Adam at Anglers Annapolis call mornings and evenings on the Bay Bridge and Thomas Point for early-summer rockfish, jumbo sea bass and flounder on mid-shore wrecks, and the first canyon mahi and yellowfin of the season — with a slow start to crabbing.

Sport Fishing

Portland's 2026 Bluefin Run: Barrel Tuna Chaos in a Small Boat

The 2026 southern bluefin tuna season off Portland, Victoria, has turned on hard, with barrel-class fish over 60kg crashing bait balls close to shore. A small-boat crew filmed by Fishing Adventures landed fish after fish amid whales, dolphins and diving gannets.

Lake Fishing

Lake St. Clair Footballs in May: FishCraft's Smallmouth-Walleye Double

FishCraft posts a cold-front Lake St. Clair report with 50-degree highs, dragging tubes and drop shots on the rock piles for prespawn smallmouth before crossing into the Detroit River for an eleven-walleye limit-style session in under two hours.

Sport Fishing

Cliff Camp on the South Coast: Surviving Fishing Adventures Eats Salmon and a 38 cm Breaksea Cod Off the Ledges

Surviving Fishing Adventures hikes a heavy pack into a remote cliff ledge on Western Australia's wild south coast, sets up camp on a flat barely big enough for the tent, and lands schoolie salmon, herring and a 38 cm breaksea cod for the fire.

Sport Fishing

Long Island Mourns Three Fishing Icons as NY Black Sea Bass Opens Saturday

Matt Broderick's May 14 Long Island Metro Forecast carried three obituaries from inside the local fishing community alongside the formal New York black sea bass opener, a Suffolk Marine open house and a south shore striper bite that has finally lifted.

Sport Fishing

Bridge Bite Wakes Up: Anglers Annapolis Calls Chesapeake Rockfish 'Pretty Decent' as May 1 Slot Reopens

Adam and Tim from Anglers Annapolis run through a Chesapeake Bay reset for May 8, 2026 — schoolie stripers waking up bay-wide, blue cats firing from Havre de Grace to the Potomac, smallmouth post-spawn on the Susquehanna and the first sea mullet popping in the Maryland surf.

Sport Fishing

Big Spaniards Coming Inshore: Ryan Moody's Winter Q&A on Mackerel, Trevally and the Ciguatera Trap

Charter veteran Ryan Moody breaks down what changes for North Queensland's winter fishery — the Torres Strait migratory mackerel push, the resident 15-to-20-kilo Spaniards moving in around headlands, and a personal warning about ciguatera that left him in bed for ten weeks.

Lake Fishing

903 Fishing's Post-Spawn Crappie Test: Mid-70s Water, Empty Bellies and a 14-Inch Slab Off the Dock

With East Texas water in the mid-70s, 903 Fishing rolls out to prove where post-spawn crappie hold once the spawn is over: 6-to-10-foot docks and 9-to-12-foot brush piles. The day delivers a hair-shy 14-inch dock slab, ten keepers in the cooler and a clear answer to where the fish go next.

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