Up and down our state, the largemouth bass spawn is on in various stages and famous Florida lakes like Okeechobee, Tohopekaliga, Rodman, Kissimmee, and Istokpoga are luring locals as well as plane loads of winter tourist anglers and their angling dollars from all around the world, all hoping ...
With water temperatures falling the local seatrout fishing is definitely heating up. This ever popular fish ranges from New York to the Gulf of Mexico but if you’re looking to catch a really big one, without question Florida is the place to begin your search. Unfortunately SW Florida isn’t ...
Most local anglers stowed their tarpon gear weeks ago and are now concentrating on snook that have moved inland away from the beaches, as well as cold tolerant species like redfish, seatrout and sheepshead that patrol the mangrove edges, bridges, docks and dark-bottom grass flats. Nearshore ...
Follow the birds around offshore and if you’re lucky they’ll lead you to some of the year’s best, lite tackle action. If do locate a feeding frenzy of mackerel, bluefish or bonito, please don’t drive through the school! Stay back and cast to the edges of the feeding frenzy. Driving ...
Everyone’s heard of overhead casting, fly casting, surfcasting, skip casting, roll casting, even spey casting, but when do you use pendulum casting? First, just how important is it to be able to make really long casts? Very! You see tailing reds far in front of the boat but getting closer ...
What a quick change! From hot and steamy, dead-still mornings to westerly winds and needing-a-jacket coolness means one thing for sure, it’s a great time to be on the water in Southwest Florida. We still have some late-leaving migratory tarpon hanging around to target, and even though the ...
