The author with a Rhode Island tautog that picked up a jig fished on ultra-light spinning tackle. Step back in time 20 or 30 years and most coastal anglers fishing between New England and the ...

Tautog fishing in Buzzards Bay is a traditional spring pastime and one of life's simple, inexpensive pleasures. Tautog, also called "tog" or blackfish, are scrappy fighters, bulldogging for the bottom ...

Tautog fishing's in full swing and has been excellent at the spindle off West Island, Penikese Island, North Rock at Quicks' Hole, Ribbon Reef and Great Ledge. Also called blackfish, tautog (or "tog") ...

Fishing for tautog (also called black fish) has been outstanding for the past four to five years. The fish have been abundant and quite large. This year, in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts, from ...