The Fishing News

This week, CAI's John Basile talks with Kevin Blinkoff of On the Water magazine about fall fishing.As the saltwater fishing season winds down, many anglers are thinking about tautog.Catching tautog—or “tog” as most fishermen call them is completely different from chasing albies or striped bass. You’re not running around looking for birds or breaking fish. You find a rock pile, wreck or some other piece of structure, anchor the boat, and fish straight down on the bottom with pieces of crab.

This week on the Fishing News, CAI's John Basile talks with Kevin Blinkoff of On the Water magazine about the effects of the late September storm on Striper Fest and the fall migration of striped bass.

John Basile checks in with Matt Haeffner of On the Water magazine on what's biting around the Cape this September. Freshwater ponds are getting restocked with trout as herring-fed bass fishing peaks, while saltwater anglers wait on bonito, albies, and the season's first big striper push.

This week on the Fishing News, CAI's John Basile talks with Kevin Blinkoff of On the Water magazine about the latest unusual visitor to local waters. A cubera snapper, estimated at 40 pounds, found its way to Nantucket where it was caught by a 14-year-old angler and released.

It's late summer and fish are plentiful in local waters. Fishing from a public dock can be a great place to take young people to fish. You don't need fancy equipment of even much experience to have a good chance of catching little snapper bluefish, herring, black sea bass, scup, and pufferfish. Drop your line and see what comes up.

This week on the Fishing News, CAI's John Basile talks with Kevin Blinkoff of On the Water magazine about bluefin tuna that range from 40 to about 200 pounds. These are big enough to put up an incredible fight, but still manageable on sportfishing tackle.

This week on the Fishing News, CAI's John Basile talks with Kevin Blinkoff of On the Water magazine about the annual return of bonito to local waters. It's always a sign the late summer fishery has opened when these fast, tasty fish return.

This week on the Fishing News, CAI's John Basile talks with Kevin Blinkoff of On the Water magazine about the recent catch of a juvenile tiger shark in Mashpee. Many species usually found south of our waters have started to show up more regularly.What are the reasons we are seeing tiger sharks, hammerheads and other species not normally found so far north?

This week on the Fishing News, CAI's John Basile talks with Kevin Blinkoff of On the Water magazine about giant bluefin tuna. It's the time of year when one of the more exciting fisheries in the world is in our local waters.Also, this week, for those not inclined to go after a fish weighing up to a thousand pounds, there are plenty of other options.Bottom fishermen using squid are finding a mixed bag of scup, fluke, and sea bass, both by boat and by shore. Most striped bass have moved into waters north of Cape Cod.

This week on the Fishing News, CAI's John Basile talks with Mat Haeffner of On the Water magazine about summer flounder, known locally as fluke.