Global Fishing JournalKNOWLEDGE FOR THE WATER AHEAD
Discover practical guides, thoughtful stories, and ideas for the water ahead.
Prepare a southern calamari session with small egi, controlled sink counts and a gentle lift-and-fall retrieve, while respecting Tasmania's dated regional spawning closures.
NOAA’s October funding announcement connects anglers with seagrass, shoreline, coral and invasive-species work. The useful next test is habitat performance, not grant totals alone.
The Open Ocean Trustees’ October announcement extends four linked restoration efforts. Adopted resolutions show the funding, decision dates and the difference between mapping, coral work and demonstrated recovery.
Read Tuross Lake’s shallow flats, assemble a running-sinker rig and compare it with small surface lures, with a worked summer session and practical adjustments.
Search Texoma’s rock and gravel transitions, compare tubes, drop-shots and moving lures, and use a worked cool-weather boat session to find the productive depth.
Assemble an anchored cut-bait rig and a controlled drift alternative, select bait size and depth, and work through a practical winter search for blue catfish.
Compare a lightly weighted prawn, a controlled float and a small soft plastic around Western Port’s public fishing locations, with practical depth and current adjustments.
Build a shad downline, fish a vertical spoon and search with a paddle-tail, using bait depth and boat position to plan a cool-weather striped-bass session.
Locate Lewisville’s white bass, distinguish hybrids, and compare a single slab, small jig and controlled bait rig with a repeatable late-autumn search plan.
Turn tide and current predictions into a fishing plan: compare estuary structures, assemble a jig or shrimp-float rig, and adjust casting angle, depth and retrieve as the flow changes.
Read river seams, riffles, pools, wood and weed edges, then assemble simple search and float rigs to test where fish hold and how they feed.
Find resident rainbow trout in small streams, assemble a spinner or single-fly rig, and practise depth, drift and bite detection with an Oregon Fall River fly-fishing example.
Eleven regions. Countless ways to fish. Start with a regional guide, then find the stories for your next destination.
Explore all destinationsCanadian lakes, Alaska, and the varied waters of the United States.
58 articlesTropical freshwater, coastal flats, and blue-water possibilities.
4 articlesA first look at freshwater destinations and ocean fishing.
4 articlesNordic lakes and rivers, with a different perspective from the coast.
27 articlesExplore the region through its inland rivers and lake fisheries.
6 articlesMediterranean coasts and inland water worth a closer look.
5 articlesCompare river-based adventures with coastal and island fishing.
10 articlesAn introduction to coastal fishing and choosing a local outing.
3 articlesFreshwater and marine possibilities across very different settings.
8 articlesTrout water, tropical rivers, and coastal fishing on your terms.
35 articlesHawaiʻi, Guam, and the Philippines: island-based fishing ideas.
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