Southwest Florida flats fall anglers love the hard runs and bulldog fight of a big redfish, as well as the power and acrobatics of a good snook in a foot of water. I do as well but a 5-foot suddenly unhappy shark with a mouthful of my plug or fly throwing a big surface bulging torpedo-like wake ...
Fall redfish love to hang out at bars and so do hooks and lures and flies, which is why the top-shelf shallow water angler always has a file or two handy to touch up hook points that may be damaged. Some folks can’t seem to get the finer points of filing so keeping a box of replacement ...
By CAPT. GEORGE TUNISON You’re new to the Southwest Florida redfish sight-fishing game and during polite conversation about the wrong boat you towed all the way here from Connecticut, your neighbor mentions its Red September to soon be followed by Red October and “they’re biting!” ...
You may have missed it, but school,s already started or … redfish schooling activity is definitely underway in Southwest Florida and I’m happy as a clam about it. Silently poling up on a patch of happy tails waving in the early morning sun, while their owners vacuum the bottom below for ...
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 ...
