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Golden Tilefish Fishing Guide: Habitat, Rigs and Rules

Golden Tilefish Fishing Guide: Habitat, Rigs and Rules

Golden tilefish live in mud burrows past the shelf break, and the right plateau shows on a chart before you drop. Here is how to identify them, find their bottom, rig for depth and stay legal on both sides of the Virginia/North Carolina line.

By Breakpoint Team
Getting Started with Breakpoint: Home Port to First Hotspot

Getting Started with Breakpoint: Home Port to First Hotspot

Set your home port, choose a species and a trip date, and open the top-ranked hotspot. Here's what Breakpoint does, what it doesn't, and how to read your first pin.

By Breakpoint Team
Gag Grouper Fishing off Tampa Bay: A Local Guide

Gag Grouper Fishing off Tampa Bay: A Local Guide

Which pass to run, which public reefs and ledges hold gag as the Gulf cools, how to fish them, and how the FWC and federal rules apply on either side of the 9-mile line.

By Breakpoint Team
Gag Grouper Fishing Guide: ID, Habitat, Tactics, Rules

Gag Grouper Fishing Guide: ID, Habitat, Tactics, Rules

How to tell gag from black grouper, where adults sit from 60 to 250 feet, how to keep them out of the rock, and how state and federal rules divide by zone.

By Breakpoint Team
Fishing Guides by Region: Gulf, Atlantic and Pacific

Fishing Guides by Region: Gulf, Atlantic and Pacific

Five coasts laid side by side: where each starts and ends, its structure, ports and season shape. Pick by port, target, season or trip, then open the region guide.

By Breakpoint Team
Fish Intel: How Breakpoint’s Species Pages Work

Fish Intel: How Breakpoint’s Species Pages Work

A section-by-section walkthrough of a Breakpoint Fish Intel species page, and what each part tells you about where a species' hotspot score can apply. It also covers where to check the rules and what the score can't see.

By Breakpoint Team
Cobia Fishing off Destin: Ramps, Reefs and Rules

Cobia Fishing off Destin: Ramps, Reefs and Rules

Where to launch, how East Pass behaves, which named reefs hold cobia, and which rules apply on each side of the 9-mile state line.

By Breakpoint Team
Cobia Fishing off Charleston: Buoys, Jetties and Reefs

Cobia Fishing off Charleston: Buoys, Jetties and Reefs

Where to launch, how to run the Charleston jetties, which buoys and SCDNR reefs to check, and how the 32°31.0' N zone line and federal rules apply to your trip.

By Breakpoint Team
Cobia Fishing in the Gulf of Mexico: Run, Rigs and Rules

Cobia Fishing in the Gulf of Mexico: Run, Rigs and Rules

Follow Gulf cobia from the spring beach run to the rigs and the Keys, put the right structure on your map, and know which agency's rule applies where the fish comes aboard.

By Breakpoint Team
Cobia Fishing Guide: ID, Seasons, Tactics and Rules

Cobia Fishing Guide: ID, Seasons, Tactics and Rules

How cobia move with warming water, where they show up from the Gulf to New York, how they are caught, and how state and federal rules divide.

By Breakpoint Team