Although I clearly remember my very first childhood solo catch, a beautifully colored bluegill, THE most memorable "first catch" was my first 5-pound largemouth bass that missed my friends lure but on the next cast, inhaled my Heddon, frog-colored Tiny Torpedo.With the primary focus of many ...
Want to have some fishy fun? Take a kid or fishing newbie out to one of our river bridges and load a lite rod with a circle hook and half a small blue crab. Drop it close to the structure and wait. Tell them they're fishing for 15-inch trout.While waiting, have your camera ready for the reaction shot when a 45-pound, or larger, black drum with an always keen nose smells that crab, feels it with his chin whiskers, then finally inhales it and takes off leaving the surprised angler with an instant case of doubled over rod, screaming drag, wide eyed panic, as you snap that priceless ...
It's easy to tell the locals from visitors these days. Locals are wearing long pants, socks and coats, and red-faced snowbirds are in shorts and T-shirts wondering why these other folks are wearing coats in Florida.My Christmas tree is up and as usual, heavily decorated with lures of every conceivable size, shape and color, which, of course, isn't recommended if you have small kids or tree climbing cats.Trout fishing has recently been very good after a slow summer and this longer-lasting cold front should really get them moving.Top artificial lures are soft plastics jigged off bottom or ...
(Schedules are subject to change without notice.)Girls SoccerFriday, Dec. 20North Fort Myers at Venice, 7 p.m.Girls BasketballFriday, Dec. 20Cardinal Gibbons at Bishop Verot, 6:30 p.m.2019-20 Bowl GlanceFriday, Dec. 20Bahamas Bowl, NassauBuffalo (7-5) vs. Charlotte (7-5), 2 p.m (ESPN)Frisco (Texas) BowlUtah State (7-5) vs. Kent State (6-6), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN2)NFLWeek 16Saturday, Dec. 21Houston at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.Buffalo at New England, 4:30 p.m.L.A. Rams at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.Sunday, Dec. 22N.Y. Giants at Washington, 1 p.m.Cincinnati at Miami, 1 p.m.New Orleans at Tennessee, 1 ...
The inshore light tackle fun continues as hungry rat redfish and trout are bending rods throughout the area.These past few weeks casting along mangrove shorelines with D.O.A. paddle tail grubs on light jig-heads has been our go-to technique for spinning and using a combination of flies mostly Clouser's for fly anglers.Ultra-lite to light spinning tackle spooled with 10-pound braid tied to 36-inch or longer fluorocarbon leaders is a good choice for casting these jigs a mile, helping you cover water quickly and connecting.Long casts parallel to the shoreline have been productive using the ...
There's nothing like a cold snap to finally get our resident sea trout schooled up and in a biting mood. After hearing folks complain about not getting much of a trout bite these past months, change is here.The afternoon the cold front arrived, we caught trout on nearly every cast as we wind ...
