Longtime deckhand Zach Harvey has experience on charter, party and commercial vessels, and in most fisheries along the Northeast. A resident of Wakefield, Rhode Island, he is a former editor of The Fisherman magazine and has contributed to a host of periodicals.
Writer Zach Harvey doesn't believe in a hierarchy of worthy quarry, instead preferring the underrated black sea bass.
A hook-and-line mercenary comes full circle in his ongoing quest to land doormat fluke.
After five minutes crisscrossing an area of broken bottom south of Newport, Rhode Island, satisfied that he has a sufficient preliminary lay of the land, Capt. Russ Benn adjusts the throttles and rounds up for our first drift.
Why the bluefish, an animated chopping machine with a public relations problem, just might be the perfect game fish
The unmistakable shing of high-carbon steel — that’s what a fish knife should sound like, not the dull, war-club clank of stainless, the music alloyed and tempered clean out of the metal at Faustian temperatures.