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Warm temps starting cycle early

Can't find your fish this week and need to stretch your line? Not picky about what you catch? Then move on out to the passes on a moving tide.Nothing fancy, just hop a jig and shrimp combo along the bottom as you drift. No luck? Then try casting around any visible structure on both sides of ...

Hard fights with tasty pompano

When cruising along in your boat and the fish start jumping out of the water in your wake quickly disregard any and all thoughts of you being now known as the Florida Fish Whisperer. You've simply found or run over a school of pompanos, one of Florida's tastiest fish.Shut down, get on the trolling motor, and quietly circle back and fish the area with shrimp-tipped tiny jigs on light spinning tackle. Keep the jig hitting bottom for these delicious members of the jack family.Good places to prospect if they aren't flying out of the water behind you, is in and around the passes. The sandy ...

Secrets to catch big sheepies

The smell from the oven made my mouth water as I pulled out a big pan of my baked blue claw crab stuffed sheepshead.Nothing like fresh fish caught and cleaned just a few hours before. If you haven't experienced this locally abundant winter treat, by all means go to a bridge, dock, or piling ...

Look for sink when fly fishing trout

Trout are in the channel. Cold weather made the shallows too cold to hunt and now the school has moved to a deep drop-off and is milling about closer to the bottom than the surface.Cast after cast with your new 6 wt. fly rod, but no takers? Why?They aren't coming up to the cold surface layer ...

Let tide charts guide your fishing

For those making the conversion to saltwater fishing after a lifetime of chasing bass, walleye or muskie, having a basic understanding of tidal movements and moon phases and their effect on the saltwater fish they seek is vital to your future success.No. 1, if the water is not moving in or out ...

Americans edge Everblades 3-2

Dyson Stevenson, Spencer Asuchak and Derek Mathers each scored a goal to lead the Allen Americans to a 3-2 victory over the Florida Everblades Wednesday night at Germain Arena.Getting off to a flying start, the Americans (26-18) needed only 33 seconds to get the game's first goal. Moving quickly into the Everblades zone, Harrison Ruopp got the puck near the point. Firing a quick shot on goal, the puck headed right for the stick of Dyson Stevenson. Managing to get just enough of the puck, Stevenson tipped the shot past Florida goaltender Anthony Peters.Keeping the pressure on the ...