A busman’s holiday with two tautog captains yields a higher education in the ways of blackfishing.

Free-diving the shallows provides insight into the best tog habitat—and the best places to target them from shore.

Understand the pros and cons of both tog presentations to get more bites this fall.

At the start of the spring tog season, soft baits like seaworms sometimes out-produce hard-shelled crabs.

Experimenting with a variety of rigs, different baits, and obscure locations is often the key to landing big tautog.

Tog jigs provide a deadly presentation while allowing anglers to target blackfish with light tackle.

A detail-oriented approach to bait and rigging will lead to more jumbo tog this fall.

Small, and typically overlooked structures that see less fishing pressure than larger, more obvious areas often hold large tautog.

Tautog are visual predators, feeding on hard-shelled crustaceans and mollusks during daylight hours and quickly retreating to the shelter of structure as the sun goes down.

Every party boat tautog trip is a crash course in bottom fishing tactics.