If you dig duck hunting, bass fishing and/or inshore action for estaurine species including snook, speckled trout and redfish, Florida is the place to hunt and fish in the same day or at least on the same visit. You've got about two weeks left of a banner duck season left to get on waterfowl until [...]
When parents ask me about programs that can help them spend time with their kids on the water through fishing, I send them to Capt. Rodney Smith and Warren Wnek, with Anglers for Conservation. These dads know plenty about getting parents and kids communicating through fishing and encouraging them to love fishing and the great [...]
The 38th annual Stuart Boat Show will run during a year when the quaint, Atlantic Coast town is really living up to its moniker, the Sailfish Capital of the World. The weather looks gorgeous for this weekend, and if you're not too busy fishing, check out the event, which runs Friday through Sunday. The show [...]
Cobia fever spreads through northwest Florida each spring. It's a serious condition, with symptoms including chronic excuse-making with spouses, bosses and most figures who irrationally expect the angler-fanatic in their lives to think about anything but sight-fishing for these brown bruisers in emerald clear water during the run. Resistance is futile, and for the sixteenth [...]
Forty-six boats. Three days. 1,174 sailfish released. Those are the numbers from the West Palm Beach Fishing Club's 75th Silver Sailfish Derby–the world's oldest billfish tournament. That's more than an 8-fish-per-boat-day average. On the first day, the tournament averaged about one fish caught per minute. Noodle on that math . . . Organizers are still [...]
