This week's cold fronts could be made to order for trout anglers not doing so well in our fall season warmer waters.Cooling temps will turn on more trout and especially big gator loners. If you choose to use a lure to bag your spotted sea trout of a lifetime you can't beat throwing the largest ...
I recently hosted a group of English anglers on their annual Florida trip. These dedicated club members travel the world with their goal being to catch as many species as possible, mostly on a fly rod.This year's trip was dedicated to redfish and snook on the fly, but the whole trip got side ...
As you watch line disappear from your reel, which is attached to your deeply bent rod, you wonder just how darn big this redfish is.Working the mangrove edges with your spoon the hit was hard and heavy as you go to work keeping the boat and fish away from the mangroves.Suddenly, an overly fat, ...
Know what happens when your 200 hp Yamaha with its prop spinning at 3,000 rpm hits a crab trap rope? At night?Looking over the transom with the motor tilted up using your cell phone "flashlight" you'll soon get the ugly answer. If you're lucky only enough rope (3-5 turns) was wrapped around ...
What a treat! Hot fishing and cooler weather. Inshore anglers are enjoying a hot snook and redfish bite on lures, flies and bait.Wednesday's clients caught a nice mix of juvie snook and rat reds with some over-slots mixed in along mangrove shorelines in windy Pine Island Sound.I prefer an ...
Sometimes the best laid plans don't work out, but often the unexpected results are better than what you originally hoped for.Yesterday's redfish trip was a prime example with an eager client looking to get in on the current hot redfish bite and "just catch some fish."Over the years, and like ...
