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Bigeye Tuna Fishing Guide: ID, Range, Tactics and Rules

Bigeye Tuna Fishing Guide: ID, Range, Tactics and Rules

How to identify bigeye tuna, where they live from the canyons to Hawaii, why they feed in low light, and how federal HMS and state rules divide.

By Breakpoint Team
Bigeye Tuna Fishing in the Atlantic Southeast: Field Guide

Bigeye Tuna Fishing in the Atlantic Southeast: Field Guide

Where bigeye hold from the Point off Hatteras to Florida's shelf edge, how to read the break over the 100-fathom curve, and exactly which federal and state rules apply when you keep one.

By Breakpoint Team
Bigeye Tuna Fishing in the Atlantic Northeast: Canyon Guide

Bigeye Tuna Fishing in the Atlantic Northeast: Canyon Guide

Bigeye hold on steep canyon walls and feed when blue water sits on top of them. Here is how to read that water, fish the dawn, dusk and night windows, and keep your catch legal under federal and state rules.

By Breakpoint Team
Atlantic Southeast Fishing Guide: Keys to Cape Hatteras

Atlantic Southeast Fishing Guide: Keys to Cape Hatteras

One Gulf Stream shape explains the whole coast, from the Keys reef line to Diamond Shoals. Here is each stretch, what bites when, and the guide to open next.

By Breakpoint Team
Atlantic Northeast Fishing Guide: Hatteras to Gulf of Maine

Atlantic Northeast Fishing Guide: Hatteras to Gulf of Maine

How the Northeast fishes as one system, from Diamond Shoals to Georges Bank. Ports matched to canyons, how eddies and breaks move across the edge, and the season from the early run to the fall.

By Breakpoint Team
Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Fishing Guide: ID, Seasons and Rules

Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Fishing Guide: ID, Seasons and Rules

How to tell bluefin from other tunas, where temperature and bait put them along the Atlantic coast, and how HMS permits, size classes and reporting work.

By Breakpoint Team
Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Fishing in the Atlantic Southeast

Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Fishing in the Atlantic Southeast

Where Southeast bluefin hold from Oregon Inlet to Florida, the 68 to 73°F water and Gulf Stream edges that concentrate bait, and a clean breakdown of federal and state rules.

By Breakpoint Team
Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Fishing in the Atlantic Northeast

Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Fishing in the Atlantic Northeast

From Block Island to Stellwagen Bank and Jeffreys Ledge, learn where bluefin feed through the season, how to read the edges that hold bait, and what the federal HMS permit and size classes mean for the fish you keep.

By Breakpoint Team
Albacore Tuna Fishing in the Pacific Northwest

Albacore Tuna Fishing in the Pacific Northwest

Where albacore concentrate off Washington and Oregon, how to find the edge on SST and Chlorophyll, how anglers troll and stop on schools, and how federal and state rules split.

By Breakpoint Team
Albacore Tuna Fishing off Newport, Oregon: Bar to Edge

Albacore Tuna Fishing off Newport, Oregon: Bar to Edge

A Newport albacore day turns on the bar, the run and the edge. Here is how to read each one from your own boat, and which state and federal rules apply.

By Breakpoint Team