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If planning an early inshore trip for this coming weekend, be aware that we will experience very low morning tides. Saturday’s Pineland prediction calls for a -0.3 at 8 a.m. and a 9 a.m. -0.4 tide on Sunday. With lots of floating and still submerged items out there waiting for you, backing ...

After an unseasonably warm week, a cool down is expected for the weekend with predicted temps in the comfortable low 80s accompanied by light winds which makes offshore runs to nearby reefs and far out GPS numbers likely for our local blue water anglers. Time will tell if the latest ...

Over the years I’ve often seen unusual ways “experienced” anglers hook and fight fish with spinning, bait casting and fly equipment. I’ve had half a dozen members of the sky high, “superman power set gang,” which resulted in the anglers going overboard backwards on hook-ups. I ...

With damaged homes, sunken or lost boats, local waters still containing boat and engine-damaging debris and to the north of us in Charlotte County, shorelines and bays coated with untold numbers of red tide killed fish, it’s often hard to be optimistic. That said, for now let’s hope the ...

My heart goes out to those that experienced damage and loss from our latest weather event, especially those that just rebuilt or are still suffering from the last round of extreme weather. Boats AWOL, sunk or, in my neighborhood, drifted off the dock and deposited up in the yard next to the ...