When the calendar flipped to July, excited whispers filtered in from fishermen and through our community’s vast network of tackle shop counters, online reports and social media posts. “Pogies.” To an ...

Atlantic menhaden, or pogies as they are locally referred to, are a great bait fish for striped bass. Menhaden also are an important part of the food chain. H. Bruce Franklin, a professor at Rutgers ...

This is some of the natural prey of speckled trout and redfish. Brendan Bayard especially likes pogies for trophy-sized speckled trout. If you had caught a 4-pound speckled trout this summer anywhere ...

The most important thing to pack in your tackle box when you head out on the harbor this weekend isn’t even a lure. It’s the lead-wrapped treble hook known as a pogy snagger. Schools of pogies, as ...

State commissioners at a packed meeting in Baton Rouge on Thursday approved a proposal to ease some regulations on Louisiana's controversial menhaden fishing industry while adding additional ...

The big bluegill continue to bite hard — if you can find them. And if you do, it'll likely be eight or 10 — then nothing. Then you'll need to move on to find them again. In fishing vernacular that's ...

A new showdown is brewing over Louisiana's controversial menhaden fishing, with another round set to play out in Baton Rouge Thursday when state commissioners consider a proposal to again alter ...

The harbormaster and town health board are investigating why hundreds of pogie fish turned up dead in the waters at the Hingham Yacht Club Wednesday morning.The Patriot Ledger reports Harbormaster Ken ...