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 ...

If you haven’t fished a tautog tournament, this is the one to enter. The AnglerCatch RI Tog Classic will be held Sunday, Oct. 13, from sunrise to 2 p.m. There are more than $50,000 in prizes and great ...

Tautog is a great eating fish, and the bite is starting to explode in Massachusetts and Rhode Island waters. In both states, the minimum size is 16 inches with a catch limit of three fish/person/day, ...

Connor MacLeod RI, Newport, RI, USA. Captain Connor MacLeod of Newport, Rhode Island has made state fishing history once again. On November 9, 2025, a tautog caught aboard his charter vessel, Tall ...

Last Monday, Vinney Simms Jr.’s huge tautog made a total of four runs back down to the bottom. He managed to keep the fish off the bottom and got it into the boat; it was a record-breaking 31-inch, 22 ...

Anglers have a lot of different species to target in the fall. This week, striped bass mixed in with bluefish are still running strong along with false albacore and bonito. Tautog fishing is cranking ...

The festival of lights returns to the Edaville railroad. Firefighters battle early morning structure fire in Westerly Firefighters responded to a structure fire in Westerly on Friday morning. Shoppers ...