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 ...
Pompano stuffed turkey? Don’t think so. Oysters in the dressing? Definitely! Last Thanksgiving was the year of the Grand Turducken stuffed with Cajun cornbread. If you aren’t familiar, a turducken is a boneless turkey stuffed with a duck and a chicken along with some type of seasoned ...
Leaving the boat dealers lot, you’re sporting an ear-to-ear grin as you admire your brand new, high tech and even higher priced shallow water dream boat in the rearview as you tow her home. Suddenly you snap out of it, shed the grin and shaking your head you say, “how could a little 18-foot ...
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 ...
