This month, Redfish, Captiva and Boca Grande Passes are the best bets for catching the area’s largest redfish. But, if you’re casting the inshore flats, oyster bars or mangrove edges is more your style, you’re in the right place as school is definitely in during Red October. Ocean-going ...
Gag grouper are resting easier today knowing they aren’t headed for local dinner tables for the remainder of the year. Thursdays FWC closure on this hard-fighting and tasty grouper will allow you to concentrate on red snapper before it closes on Oct. 4, again reopening on the 9th through the ...
Can’t get enough of the big silver stuff? Never fear, the gangs still here and looking to eat weather permitting all the way into December before heading south, leaving their resident cousins behind to winter over. Tarpon are still scattered throughout the area using the passes along ...
There might be fewer anglers on the water in the middle of September than any other time of year. The weather is good and fishing is good, without much competition. Redfish reports were consistent in the Pine Island Sound and Charlotte Harbor. Schooling fish were found along bar edges in the ...
You can still score a bright silver tarpon before they leave. Snook are starting to think about moving back from the beach while eating and storing fat and energy for the upcoming winter. Seatrout are still steaming in the hot water waiting for a cool down. Offshore and nearshore, mackerel, ...
Now is the time for some of the best fishing of the year and is often overlooked in Southwest Florida. With school back in session, summer vacations over and our northern friends out of state, this may be the time you will find the least number of anglers and boat traffic on the water. ...
