I was fishing off Venezuela in the late 1990s when a local mate showed me a hot dog — yes, a hot dog that you’d eat — that he had rigged with a Mustad live-bait hook. Shortly thereafter, he said, ...

Spanish mackerel are showing strong in area coastal waters, and anglers from Matanzas Inlet to Brunswick soon will be slamming the speedy, good-eating, and fun-to-catch mini-mackerel. Right now the ...