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 ...

Tautog fishing exploded this week after things settled down from storms, high winds and rough seas. Fishing was good in our Bays, at jetties along our southern coastal shore, and off Point Judith, ...

Tautog is a great eating fish, and the bite is starting to explode in Massachusetts and Rhode Island waters. In both states, the minimum size is 16 inches with a catch limit of three fish/person/day, ...

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 ...

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 ...

“This is the largest tautog I have ever caught,” said Jeremy Webster of Pawtucket as he lifted his rod high to prevent the fish from going back down into structure. Webster's fish was in the low ...

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 ...

Last Monday, Vinney Simms Jr.’s huge tautog made a total of four runs back down to the bottom. He managed to keep the fish off the bottom and got it into the boat; it was a record-breaking 31-inch, 22 ...