Salt Water Sportsman

Salt Water Sportsman covers the world of saltwater fishing. The magazine offers loads of how-to information, advice for those who travel within the greater U.S. and surrounding waters, and reviews of new boats, tackle and electronics.

Salt Water Sportsman

Fast Movers • Patience is a virtue. You have to know how to stick out a tide. But sometimes speed and range make all the difference.

Talk on the Dock

CHEEKY SCHOOLIE TOURNAMENT A BIG WIN FOR CONSERVATION

BUILDING OYSTER REEFS IN FLORIDA’S PANHANDLE

HIT A HOME RUN WITH SLOW-PITCH

BAD THINGS YOU CAN DO TO YOUR OUTBOARD

Heads-Up!

A Bad Deal for Bunker • These new guidelines for the Chesapeake Bay harvest have no teeth.

Tactics and Tackle

Don’t Let Current Ruin Your Bottom-Fishing Trip • Lengthen your soak time with this fast-current bottom rig.

Topwaters for Every Speed • There’s nothing better than watching a fish slam a plug as it rips across the water’s surface.

Float Plan

The Right Propeller • Changing out your props? Here are five things to know first, straight from the experts.

THE SHARROW PROP CHOICE

Mag Bay 43 CC

Sailfish 226 DC

A Quiet Revolution • Brushless saltwater trolling motors turn up the efficiency and turn down the noise.

MINN KOTA QUEST BRUSHLESS TECHNOLOGY

FLORIDA KEYS OVERNIGHTER • THE DRY TORTUGAS IS NO LONGER THE FINAL FRONTIER, BUT THE BOTTOMFISHING IS STILL WORTH THE TRIP.

PLANNING A TRIP

FISH WIDE OPEN • TODAY’S NEW BREED OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE OUTBOARD BOATS EXPANDS ANGLING HORIZONS

Outboard Muscle

NEED FOR SPEED • SPEED-TROLLING WITH DIVING LIPLESS PLUGS HAS EMERGED AS THE NEXT BIG THING FOR FINICKY PACIFIC BLUEFIN TUNA.

How Did It Start?

Change the Hooks

Pressing Pause • MAKING THE MOST OF THE TIDE’S RUNNING-SLACK PERIODS WILL UP YOUR GAME.

Pursuit S 248 Sport • The new S 248 Sport offers a versatile alternative to the growing number of mega-size, multi-outboard center-console fishing boats.

Jupiter 40 • The new Jupiter 40 shines brightly amid an increasingly crowded orbit of similar-size offshore center-console fishing machines.

GETTING UP TO SPEED