Vermilion Snapper Fishing Guide: ID, Tactics and Rules
How to tell a beeliner from a red snapper, where vermilion hold from North Carolina to the western Gulf, and how to fish above the school. Includes how state and federal rules divide and links to every agency.
By Breakpoint Team
Tuna Fishing Guides: Yellowfin, Bluefin, Bigeye and More
Six tunas side by side, from the easiest first fish to the hardest deep-water target. Learn to tell the look-alikes apart, see which tunas each region holds and pick the guide to read next.
By Breakpoint Team
Using Tide Stations and Buoy Data to Time a Trip
A field-by-field read of an NDBC buoy report, a method for choosing a representative station, and the difference between tide height and current, worked through at Hatteras Inlet with a go/no-go checklist.
By Breakpoint Team
The Thermocline Explained for Offshore Anglers
A clean temperature break with no fish usually comes down to the water underneath it. Here is how to find that layer with SST, a sounder, a probe and subsurface models, and how to set your spread to its depth.
By Breakpoint Team
Swordfish Fishing in the Pacific Southwest: Water and Rules
Why broadbill swordfish hold where they do in the Southern California Bight, how to turn temperature and chlorophyll edges into a drift, and how federal and California rules divide.
By Breakpoint Team
Swordfish Fishing in the Gulf of Mexico: Water, Rigs, Rules
Where Gulf swordfish hold, from DeSoto Canyon to the Dry Tortugas, how the Loop Current and steep bottom position them, and how federal HMS and state rules divide.
By Breakpoint Team
Swordfish Fishing Guide: Day Drops, Night Drifts and Rules
Swordfish feed deep by day and shallow by night, and the rules for keeping one are mostly federal. Here is how to identify them, where each region fishes them, how the rigs work and what the permits require.
By Breakpoint Team
Swordfish Fishing in the Atlantic Southeast: Water and Rules
From the Florida Straits to North Carolina's Gulf Stream edge, here is how the Stream, the ledges and the deep scattering layer shape where swordfish sit, day and night. It also sets out the federal HMS rules and how they carry into each state.
By Breakpoint Team
Swordfish Fishing in the Atlantic Northeast: Canyon Guide
How to read the water and the canyon walls for Northeast swordfish, how the daytime deep-drop and night drift differ, and how federal HMS rules apply from New Jersey to Maine.
By Breakpoint Team
Striped Marlin Fishing in the Pacific Southwest: A Guide
Where striped marlin show up off Southern California, the water and banks that hold them, how anglers fish them, and how federal and state rules split.
By Breakpoint Team