CATCHING SCHOOLERS
It might be summertime, but did you know that bass have already gone back to school? Back to schools of baitfish, that is. ... [READ IT]

CASHING IN AWAY FROM THE BANK
To watch the average bass tournament, often the outcome is so often decided on who finds the best stretch of bank... [READ IT]

NIGHT FISHING
Growing up, I couldn't wait for summer to arrive. For me, summer meant longer days to do all the fishing and hiking and camping that I wanted to do... [READ IT]

Beach Patrol Kingfish
Offshore from Port Canaveral, at two of the hottest spots for kings, 8A-Reef and Pelican Flats, the bite just shut down on us. Water temps had climbed... [READ IT]

Humps and Thumps
When you run out the Crystal River in northwestern Citrus County, the Progress Energy nuclear power plant stands as the dominant landmark amid this... [READ IT]

Crawl/Retrieve Method Yields Trout Action
On his very first cast, Wade (our son) hooked a trout that jumped twice, made several line-peeling runs, and darted around the boat for more than a few minutes before tiring enough to submit to our waiting net... [READ IT]

Tips to Low Water Steelhead Success
As of this writing, nearly all of the Washington and Oregon steelhead rivers are low and clear. In fact, the water flow is so diminished that most streams cannot be... [READ IT]

Berkley Powerbait Snookin’ in Palm Beach
Late Fall, Winter, Early Spring- During these periods, snook primarily inhabit inland waterways including residential canals, tidal creeks or rivers, and the upper reaches of the Intracoastal Waterway. Bait preferences are typically on the smaller... [READ IT]

Tarpon Techniques
Daylight Techniques: For cuts, passes, or deeper channel ledges, use either Berkley Gulp or Power Bait 4" Pogies or Shrimp, depending upon the targeted forage- either crustaceans or smaller bait fish. ... [READ IT]

The Best Kept (BIG) Snook Secrets
"My silver mullet began to frantically run from the huge snook in the main channel at the Donald Ross drawbridge. The fish kept approaching the bait aggressively but backed off every time at the last second when I thought it was going to eat the bait. A large cloud of phosphorescence was... [READ IT]

Street-Smart Seatrout
Jacksonville may be Florida’s most populated city, and the third most populated on the entire U.S. Eastern Seaboard, but all those people haven’t crowded out equally sizeable populations of big trout, reds... [READ IT]

Summer Schoolers
Your kids and the neighbor’s kids might be out of school for the summer, but it’s during this time of year that bass will go back to school. Back to schools of baitfish, that is. That’s because there are huge clouds of baitfish everywhere (or soon will be). The baitfish...[READ IT]

Scents Make Sense
There have been a lot of artificial scent baits on the market over the years, but most were not very effective for anything other than pinfish. That seems to have changed. Some of the new generation scents are at least as deadly as live bait, and have blurred the line between artificial and natural bait...  [READ IT]

Think Small
L Don’t call them "sunfish." That will only prove you’re neither a Florida native nor a longtime fisherman on our inland waters.Around here, mixed catches of those small but feisty freshwater favorites are lumped under the label "bream,"...  [READ IT]

Dance a Jig on the Patches
When a hard east wind blows across the Florida Keys, fishing can come to a virtual standstill. There’s no landmass to duck behind on a strong easterly. Days are spent... [READ IT]

'Dines
In all honesty, there are many days when I wish I had never heard the word "sardine." In fact, until about 20 years ago, the only sardines most Florida anglers knew about came in cans with either mustard... [READ IT]