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Sunshine State largemouth bass on the menu?

Broiled Blue Crab Stuffed Black Bass – $24.99? Move over tilapia, soon Sunshine State largemouth black bass will be on local menus! The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission recently approved rules to allow for the production and sale of Florida largemouth bass as a food ...

Early preparation is key for any successful fishing trip

Putting together a successful day on the water will greatly depend on your ability to solve the puzzle before you. Your first moves should take place at home, long before the trip starts. Any successful fishing trip begins with good basic preparation like having a working knowledge of tides, ...

Longing to fish for tarpon? Head south

Now that we’ve seemed to skip March and move right into April, big schools of tarpon are just off Knapp’s Point! Well, not quite yet, but it would be nice, as I’m looking forward to stretching my back and line again while attached to a half-a-boat sized chrome giant, cartwheeling through ...

Creating unexpected lifetime memories

One of the winter trips I look forward to the most each year doesn’t involve long boat rides, hard-fighting snook, tasty sheepshead, pompano or any other high profile game or table fish, but still provides lifetime memories for the participants. First things needed are a family or ...

Catching trout, sheepies and more during cold months

Southwest Florida cold fronts and ever lowering water temperatures kicks the sheepshead, trout and pompano, bite into high gear, so don’t let cold water and winters negative low tides get you down, as both can work in the angler's favor. During the coldest periods, trout will school and ...

Snook likely relieved with end of cold snap

After some bitter cold weather, Southwest Florida’s sub-tropical snook are happy to hear that we’ll be back in the 80s and that they will survive. With this cold snap they’ve been having nightmares about the prolonged “big freeze” of 2010 that took out nearly half million of their ...