If catching a huge bull redfish is high up on your bucket list this fall, then pick your location and start casting. I’m not talking 10, 20 or even 30-pound drum, but those hitting the 50-pound mark or larger. Fall is redfish time from Texas to Florida and also northwards, far up the east ...
Right now there is a fish lurking in the shadowy shallows of Matlacha Pass that is truly bad to the bone, usually hungry and will viciously attack most any fish, lure or bait and even take a bite out of people and dogs. This creature is rocket fast, fights redfish hard, jumps snook high, has ...
A new record was accidentally set aboard my boat this past week. Ms. Jane T., now and forever known by her husband as Birdy T., of Toronto, Canada, accidentally caught and released a total of four assorted water birds and a fair number of fish this past Tuesday, beating my standing boat record of two birds hooked and released in a 4-hour trip. When predator fish feed from below driving the bait to the surface, the sea birds then join in to enjoy the easy pickings as well. Often a cast into this frenzy of jumping fish and flying birds results in a pelican or other water bird flying into ...
When should a boat owner think about tossing a 1-foot-square of copper sheet material over the side? What’s a “cone of protection," an “air terminal” or “Franklin Rod”? During a lightning storm, are you safer in an aluminum or fiberglass boat? It takes less than 200 volts to ...
Need a break from the broiling sun? Too hot to fish? We know that rust never sleeps and with boats that spend their time around salt water, there’s always work to be done. Here are some tips to make boating life easier. Check all batteries to see if the water levels are low due to summer ...
The problem -- Microcystis is a type of toxic cyanobacteria that grows in Lake O. Pictures from a few months ago showed marinas on the lake blanketed in a solid mass of these poisonous algae. Agriculture run-off into the lake fuels these blooms, the summer rains come, the lake level get too ...
