Sheephead await. Ignored most of the year, when water temperatures drop like they have now, the convict fish are happy and eating. They also are in their spawn, which means now is the time to catch some of the biggest fish of the year. We’ve been using shrimp, fiddler crabs and barnacles for bait. Small,
Tampa Bay fishing charters just got better Well, my new 2017 2420 Blazer Bay Florida Edition is working out better than dreamed. She’s fast with the new Yamaha 250 4 stroke, handles sloppy seas with ease, but most all provides the comfort, safety and fishability my customers deserve. She is very stable at rest and
Feel the burn—beware the Leatherjacket fish You don’t tug on superman’s cape! You don’t spit into the wind! You don’t pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger and you don’t mess around with a Leatherjacket fish. Sometimes called a Skipjack, Oligoplites Saurus may be small but they pack a venomous sting that can end
Spanish mackerel may be the Rodney Dangerfield of fish, but they really are the complete package of speed, strength and table fare, deserving a lot more respect than they get. And in these warmer months, they’re biting and one our prime targets. A schoolingspecies, mackerel hunt in packs, rounding up schools of bait and slashing
It’s high-heaven fishing right now, as we’re on the pompano. These hard-fighting fish are excellent sport and even better on the table, being one of the most prized examples of table fare from the sea. We’re fishing Tampa Bay and working a variety of locations, from hard, sandy/shell bottom, to passes, under bridges and along
Life’s simple pleasures are the best, and when it comes to fishing Tampa Bay in the summer, few things are as pleasurable as mangrove snapper fishing. Snapper not only are great sport on light tackle, they are what we call a “keeper.” That’s right, they go home for dinner. Right now we’re slamming them
Now’s the time for big cobia. These powerful fish are on the flats, beaches and just offshore and we’re catching them. One of the hardest fighting fish we encounter, cobia can be found cruising near the surface, hanging around structure such as rock, markers, wrecks and rocks. They also like to follow schools of stingrays