Fishing

"Captain, can we keep this fish? Is this one big enough, captain?" Questions like these go on during the whole charter trip. Especially from people that don't fish the salt on a regular basis. There is a virtual profusion of ...

The wait is almost over for recreational anglers along the Gulf of Mexico coast hoping to score a snook for the dinner table.

The effort to ban a controversial artificial lure used to catch tarpon in the Boca Grande Pass got a boost Wednesday from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission during its meeting in Lakeland.

Hot! Hot! Hot! That is a description of how warm and humid it has been for anyone venturing out for a day on the water and not a description of the fishing itself.

Boca Grande Pass, which sits at the mouth of Charlotte Harbor, is an approximately 2,200-foot waterway separating Gasparilla and Cayo Costa Islands. Inside the main 40-foot channel of the pass, there are several deeper ledges, with the “Lighthouse Hole,” which ...

Sharks, and not the fishing groups, pose the most immediate threat to tarpon that are weakened after a prolonged fight.

A small fleet of boats, most wrapped in colorful graphics and covered with corporate-sponsorship logos, weaves its way through Boca Grande Pass — one of the most coveted fishing holes in the world.

Sanibel-based novelist Randy Wayne White, best known for his Doc Ford books, has been one of the most outspoken proponents of tarpon conservation.

The ducks in my canal are enjoying the weather of the past few days and so are the fish (they don’t have eyelids to squint from the sun). The entire Southwest Florida area has been getting a fair amount of ...

“The Bowfishing Babe” is trying to become the first “Top Hooker,” Animal Planet’s new reality competition show

If you have been wanting to test out the fishing paradise that is Southwest Florida, now is the perfect time. As part of National Boating and Fishing Week, anglers will not need a saltwater license to hit the waters this ...

We are starting to see thunderstorms and showers moving into our area on a daily basis, and that will change things up, especially for inshore anglers.

The snook — some the length of a grown man’s arm — are packed in so tightly along the fuel docks of the Hamilton Harbor Marina in Naples that they can literally be fed by hand.

My neighbor’s poinciana tree is about three-fourths in bloom, and if past years’ performance is any indicator, this should be a time to sight fish lots of snook right on the beach.