Salt Water Sportsman

Salt Water Sportsman covers the world of saltwater fishing. Featuring local authorities from around the country, Salt Water Sportsman provides the regional insight and expertise to help anglers catch more and bigger fish, right in their own back yard. The magazine offers loads of how-to information, advice for those who travel within the greater U.S. and surrounding waters, and reviews of new boats, tackle and electronics.

Salt Water Sportsman

Back and Forth • A new year of challenges, and opportunity for a sustainable future.

Everglades Restoration Hits Another Snag • Water-retention project now challenged by lawsuit from US Sugar.

Hurricane Triggers Oil Spills in the Gulf of Mexico

It Ain’t Over Until It’s Over

Salt Water Kids

New Gear

A Place at the Table • Our response to the wholesale approach to 30-by-30 must be inclusion.

Time Well Spent • The PR bobbin knot yields the ultimate in wind-on leaders when casting to big fish.

Playing the Ponies • Bet on these outboard maintenance and operating tips to keep your fuel bills down.

FP First Look

Frequency Fundamentals • Find more fish by choosing the most effective transducer frequency.

FP Electronics

Movable Feast • Any interruption in a featureless ocean offers both cover and aggregated bait for peripatetic pelagics. This untethered buoy, drifting along in 600 feet of water off Pompano Beach, Florida, hosted both tripletail and almaco jacks, and provided an opportunity for anglers. Both species eagerly chased down a1 ∕4-ounce jig fitted with a Z-Man 4-inch DieZel Minnow soft-plastic tail.

DEEP DIVE ON SAILFISH ACTION • ADD A THIRD DIMENSION TO YOUR SAILFISH QUEST

GULF COAST OFFSHORE TACTICS • TOP STRATEGIES TO BOOST YOUR CATCHES IN GULF WATERS, NEAR AND FAR

TUNA INTEL TOP TO BOTTOM • TUNED TACTICS TO COVER THE WATER COLUMN AND LAND MORE TUNA

DINOSAUR HUNT •  Targeting white sturgeon on the Pacific Coast presents anglers with a singular challenge

BACKYARD BROADBILLS • DAYTIME SWORDFISH ACTION AWAITS WITHIN EASY REACH OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ANGLERS

Yellowfin 17 CE • A new and improved technical poling skiff joins a revered boatbuilder’s family.

Xplor Andros X24 • A South Carolina builder hits it out of the park with its first bay boat.

Fisherman

To Each His Own • When personal styles collide.