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 years and most coastal anglers fishing between New England and the ...

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 ...

Hello folks. Today we're very excited to share with you a brand new version of the familiar Flexi-Jig - the new Bucktail Flexi-Jig! Due to popular demand the original flexi-jig now comes in a bucktail ...

“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 ...

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.

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, ...