After a lifetime of pursuing western freshwater trout with 3 to 5 weight fly rods and super fine leaders, this was indeed a whole new ball game.For me there's nothing better than getting a freshwater angler out on the salt for the first time. Watching their shocked reaction to the brute power ...
I sensed the first change this past Tuesday and it felt good. For the first time in many months there was a slight crispness to the air.Any change in this steam bath is easily noticeable and welcome, especially if you live here.Meanwhile, the tarpon obsessed will continue to try and add fall and final numbers to a tough season. Some are finding fish still hunting the passes as well as those still trailing bait schools in the harbor and around the mouth of the Myakka River.Those that have been waiting for fall and school redfishing here are starting to get in their licks.This past week a ...
Time flies. Get in your tarpon licks soon as it won't be long before those fish inclined to winter farther south of here will be heading out.The resident fish will stay behind happy and content that they don't have to make the long trip and fighting sharks along the way.These "smarter" fish will choose instead to winter upriver or in a deep canal here in Southwest Florida, enjoying the peaceful easy living and warm waters, dining on trout, lady and catfish snacks.In the meantime, the current black water summer fish will be scattered throughout the deeper waters of Charlotte Harbor and ...
You could have knocked me over with a feather when I read the great new news!Besides poisoning two rivers, slowly killing The Everglades, Florida Bay and the Keys, all for special interests and sweet greed, our water managers, politicians and others in Uncle Govern-ment in their infinite wisdom, may soon allow an increase in environmentally monitored and supposedly controlled poison chemicals and compounds in our environment.An increase? Why, Thank You!The Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection in an effort to help "keep us safe" has had an ongoing and quite quiet, nearly four-year ...
My next bay boat will have an easy and full access electrical system that is logically and thoughtfully laid out. What a dream that would be!That's often hard to find in many bay boat center console hulls in the locally popular 20- to 22-foot range where space is at a premium.Lying on my side, ...
Traveling to your offshore hot spots might pay off big with a great variety of fish to be caught and introduced to the fish box for trip home and a nice bed of charcoal.Snapper, grouper, tarpon, permit, sharks of all sizes, even oversized redfish and snook may show up on the hook. Sharks ...
