The Clarkspoon has been around since 1927, and it’s been filling coolers with Spanish mackerel ever since. Dense enough that, even in the small sizes, you can fire one a mile and hit that distant ...

I was fishing off Venezuela in the late 1990s when a local mate showed me a hot dog — yes, a hot dog that you’d eat — that he had rigged with a Mustad live-bait hook. Shortly thereafter, he said, ...

Ballyhoo, mullet, bonito and squid all make great baits, but if you can match the size Spanish mackerel to the size of the billfish you are seeking, there is simply no better dead bait to pull. All ...