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Snapper Season Is On Its Way!

It is very exciting to catch your own fish right from the waiting to the tugging of bait, the struggle and finally heaving it up on board. Many fish lovers simply cannot contain their excitement when fishing season draws and they religiously prepare their boats, bait and fishing tools. If you are an expert fisher […]

Fly Fishing in Florida, Part 3

There are two kinds of saltwater fly fishing: inshore and offshore. Offshore fly fishing is the deep-ocean kind. Inshore fishing means angling in brackish waters, tidal estuaries, and salty bays and lagoons, as well as an ocean proper but within reasonable distance of shore. Inshore fly fishing tackle wholesale attracts the greatest number of anglers. […]

Fly Fishing in Florida, Part 2

Stand on the shore of any freshwater lake, say a Midwestern lake equipped with a daiwa longbow df or a daiwa airity pole, and I think of the fish it holds that you might realistically catch on flies. Bass, pike, walleyes, bluegills, crappies. Stand on the sea-wall at, let’s say, Lake Worth, where that salty […]

Fly Fishing in Florida, Part 1

It was more than fifty years ago, when I was a high school student, that friends and I drove up to Joe Brooks’ house in Islamorada, in the Florida Keys. Joe and his wife Mary had been living there only a few years, having moved down from Baltimore. We wanted Joe to take us shimano […]

How To Use Light To Catch More Fish

Fish are predators who hunt visually. Their eyes act as a kind of radar, seeking out changes in the ambient light around them for signs of prey in the immediate vicinity. The most notable and immediate changes in a dark underwater environment are rapid changes in light. Such changes attract the immediate attention of game […]