Have time for a quick summer vacation? How about a close to home truly world class fishing destination featuring off-season rates? Like, hunting tarpon, bonefish and permit on beautiful flats along with sharks and speedy barracudas. Local bridges and channels, teeming with a huge variety of ...
Welcome to Southwest Florida, the summertime lighting capitol of the U.S.A. NOAA estimates that the average lightning strike contains around 30 million volts! If becoming stranded by mechanical issues or ignoring common sense to decide to stay a little longer to try and catch “just one ...
I’m hardly a fan of our daytime summer steam bath but knowing that the hot weather period brings the hottest multi-species fishing of the year, I always find a way to cope. For me nighttime is the right time to fish for all my favorite hot weather Southwest Florida species. Inshore or ...
A couple of times this past week I thought, “If I get any hotter, I’m going to catch fire!” Then the always, “I’m getting way too old for this!” and, of course, the ever popular, “Is it getting hotter each summer, or just me getting older?” Wow! The Southwest Florida heat and ...
Many blame summer rain and nutrient rich freshwater coming from the Cape’s canal system for the recent fish kill in Matlacha with dead and decomposing algae causing unsustainable low oxygen levels. Other sources of fresh, often contaminated water entering into Charlotte Harbor also has a ...
It’s still angling slam time in Southwest Florida as most species that interest our ankle-deep, beach, near-shore to off-shore anglers are here and biting. Be it an inshore trout, redfish, tarpon and snook grand slam; mixed bag off shore; or largemouth, peacock and clown knife slam or, just ...
Anglers have a love/hate relationship with sharks. “Jaws” actually kept many people out of the water for years, some permanently. These amazing, ancient and environmentally valuable predators often eat the bottom baits intended for our springtime tarpon, wasting precious tarpon fishing time ...
If you’re not sure if you’ve just caught a large pompano or a small permit, just reach in its mouth and rub the fish’s tongue. If you feel “teeth” on its tongue, you’ve caught a juvenile permit. Pomps have toothless tongues. When young they sure look alike and are definitely some ...
It’s a great time to be fishing in Southwest Florida! Winds are down and it’s not hot as blazes just yet, so enjoy it while it lasts. With plenty of natural bait in the water, all of our fish species are eating heavily both in-, near- and offshore. Right now coastal and pass tarpon ...
May fishing is under way and the fish are definitely cooperating. From back-country shallows to costly fuel-burning trips out to 150 feet or more depths, and all point’s in between, there’s a fish with your name on it. Although this area isn’t really known for offshore game like dolphin ...
