If your schedule only permits tarpon hunting during the oven-hot daylight hours or you don’t like the shear excitement of challenging a silver king at night, then pull out your trusty binoculars and scan the Gulf for rolling fish starting a mile or so off the coast right after dawn. You ...
Having trouble finding flats fish in your favorite backwater hot spots? Go back just after a shower which cools and oxygenates the water getting fish moving again and bringing them out from their hiding spots far back and under cover where you can’t present a lure or bait. If that doesn’t ...
With Erin thankfully headed north and away from us, let’s all hope the newest tropical disturbances follow a similar path. In the meantime, keep in close contact with current weather reports, stay well hydrated, use common sense when planning a trip and keep on fishing. This past week ...
Although red grouper season is open all year in state waters with a two per angler limit and a 20-inch minimum harvest size, offshore crews will have to wait out this month to again go after red snapper which reopens on Sept. 1. Fans of gag grouper will also have to wait till the beginning ...
On the water around Southwest Florida in August means dealing with steamy hot weather and the possibility of daily thunderstorms. Fishing can be good for the month If you don’t mind working around the weather. Summer days give us flat calm seas over the morning hours, perfect for running ...
Wow! Can it get any hotter? At what temperature does fiberglass melt? My boat deck is feeling a little soft and spongy these days. Well, it’s not that bad yet, but it certainly feels like it’s getting there. Is it becoming hotter each year or maybe it’s just the fact that yet another ...
