Consult your tide charts and if your schedule permits get out pre-dawn on an incoming tide morning. Stake out, pole or troll motor with a keen eye to the water looking for redfish tails waving you over to the action.Heads down, intent on doing what reds do which is vacuuming the bottom for ...
Every couple of years I make my way south to the Keys for a sun and fun scenery change.From Cape Coral it's an easy 225-mile drive to beautiful Islamorada then another 80 miles or so to Key West. Fast ferry service is provided locally.Be warned, this last slow stretch below Islamorada is ...
Nothing like steady weather to get the offshore boats out of port and chasing a wide variety of sport and table fish available on nearshore and offshore rock piles and ledges.Look for diving birds to help you find concentrations of Spanish macs and kingfish. In this mix, or nearby, find one of ...
Some nice snook catches this week along the beaches, docks near the ICW, and inland along Burnt Store Bar tells me like the weather it can only get better.Hungry fish, even those last-minute beach-bound snook sensing the stable fall period eventually will all leave the coast and head for ...
Tremendous amounts of fresh water and stirred-up bottom material have made it tough for inshore anglers seeking to play with their favorite species.Tarpon reports were understandably less than sunny this past week. Many are stowing the big rods for a fall snook or redfish outfit.If you were on ...
These days it's getting tougher for Floridians concerned with the environment, outdoor water sports, hunting, and shooting to not be worried.Environmental poisoning of a state and economy whose life blood is its water and beaches, political hacks doing nothing for decades, gridlock and greed ...
