It was a typical Spanish mackerel meeting - an on-the-water spring picnic, with dozens of boats of all sizes and descriptions off St. Augustine Inlet. Finding the fish meant simply finding the fleet, ...

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, ...