If catching a huge snook along the beach sounds like a great way to start your day, an evening or night, then you’re in luck as its peak beach snooking time. Pick a moving tide backed by an easterly breeze and slowly move along sight fishing the morning surf zone or for a unique experience ...
Drink up! It’s sauna time in Southwest Florida and staying properly hydrated can make the difference between a good day on the water or a trip to the ER or worse. Drinking up on a blistering hot day on the water shouldn’t include alcohol or caffeine as they both act as diuretics causing ...
Leave early and come home safely with delicious table fare. Red, mangrove and lane snapper, triggerfish and red grouper are all looking to bite as well as unpredictable, drag-smoking barracuda. Getting out to the 150-foot mark and beyond will put you in bigger specimen territory. Chumming them ...
For those that enjoy relaxing before the “silver storm” arrives, fishing dead baits on the bottom is the way to roll. Put the baits out, sit back in the shade, sip a cool drink and wait for the action to start … life is good. Tarpon being scavengers or more politely, opportunity ...
If you want to be successful at catching coastal tarpon moving along the beach to a mile or more offshore, learn not to get behind and chase them as this tactic only scares them. If you’re new to this game and lucky enough to even spot a pod of tarpon, then the best plan is to motor out ...
Another chance to bring home some fine red snapper for dinner if the weekend weather cooperates. Predicted showers and light winds may keep smaller boats close to home or maybe competing in the tarpon parade at Boca Grande. Best weather advice; when in doubt, wait it out. East coast anglers ...
