Our winter inshore pattern of taking what Mother Nature provides is going as well as can be expected following the extreme cold weather Southwest Florida experienced last month. Spotted sea trout, sheepshead, and redfish are your best bet out on the flats, in the backcountry, and around the Charlotte Harbor canals. The east side of [...]
We’ve been experiencing some really good low morning tides this past week. The smaller shallow draft skiffs, like the Maverick Mirage HPX tunnel, have been great for getting us into the backcountry of Gasparilla Sound where I’ve been spending most mornings. The redfish bite has been decent with good size slot fish coming out of [...]
We’ve definitely entered a winter pattern now that we’ve had a few good cold fronts. We also have two overlapping closed seasons as snook season is closed through February and spotted sea trout is still closed through December. However, the bite has picked up for our winter species like pompano, bluefish, sheepshead, and whiting. I’m [...]
I spent yesterday fishing the negative low morning tide with Capt. Jay Withers. We spent the day fishing the new Sebile Stick Shadd Hollow. In addition to the new 100 mm bait, we we’re protyping the new 85 mm version. We took the Maverick Mirage Tunnel so that we could get back up into some [...]