The weekend inshore angler and pleasure boater will face low water conditions with a Saturday -0.7 low to start the morning. The tide chart shows little water movement during the whole day which isn’t great news for hungry fish, most anglers and could definitely spell trouble for pleasure ...
If work or other responsibilities only allow a half day inshore trip(s) this weekend, if possible getting chores done in the morning then fishing the afternoon incoming tide starting around 1 p.m. (at Pineland) would be a good plan. There will be more water moving and the sun will have warmed ...
Every year my Christmas tree is loaded down with a ton of lures and twinkling lights and because I was double-bit by the fishing bug many decades ago, this simply makes me feel good during the holidays. This week while decorating said tree and reaching on tip-toes, I stretched to place the ...
There was lots of inshore activity this past week despite the winds with trout, blue and ladyfish, redfish, smaller snook, pompano and sheepshead. Whiting, pompano, jacks, ladyfish and redfish were eating around most pass areas with pompano liking the Burnt Store Bar along with undersized, but ...
Holiday tarpon were observed rolling and a few reported caught from multiple locations earlier in the week. There’s still a handful lingering in Boca Grande Pass as well as in and around the 20-foot holes in Charlotte Harbor and the mouth of the Myakka River. Pinfish and shrimp got two Boca ...
The fish sizzled in the pan and soon was on my plate. A squeeze of lemon and a delicious forkful of black grouper awaited me. Not from the fish’s main body but from a better tasting part of its anatomy, its cheeks. It’s good to have friends that are expert bottom anglers. To the ...
