Meticulous gear preparation and safety practices are essential precursors to any successful trip offshore, especially under the cover of night.

For some captains, the apex of offshore fishing swims at the bottom of the canyons.

This Saturday at 3:15 am our crew of six pushed off the dock and headed out of Edgartown harbor.

Thanks to Captain Jack Sprengel of East Coast Charters out of Warwick, Rhode Island who wrote up this account of the Rhode Island State Record swordfish landed aboard the Hot Reels in Hydrographers Canyon last

Getting to the canyons is all about timing, so when a weather window opened and Andy Nabreski and I got last-minute invites to go offshore this week, we jumped at the chance.