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, ...

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 ...

Captain Connor MacLeod of Newport, Rhode Island has made state fishing history once again. On November 9, 2025, a tautog ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A Connecticut angler and his boat captain have reeled in a fish of a lifetime. Aiden Cole has caught a massive 36 inch, 28.75 -pound tautog — better known as a "taugzilla" among the marine community.

This past Monday, Vinney Simms Jr. of Hamilton, New Jersey, had a huge tautog make 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 ...

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, ...