I was fishing off Venezuela in the late 1990s when a local mate showed me a hot dog — yes, a hot dog that you’d eat — that he had rigged with a Mustad live-bait hook. Shortly thereafter, he said, ...

Massive pods of bait along the beach are falling prey to bonita, Spanish mackerel and jack crevalle as well as larger predators such as tarpon, kingfish and blacktip sharks. Drift through the bait ...

With the thermometer around the 100-degree mark, it can become increasingly tougher to catch fish inshore this time of year. The good news is that living in the Florida Panhandle there is always ...

Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.

Spanish mackerel are showing strong in area coastal waters, and anglers from Matanzas Inlet to Brunswick soon will be slamming the speedy, good-eating, and fun-to-catch mini-mackerel. Right now the ...

Offshore action has lit up on our coast as the Spanish mackerel, kingfish and grouper fishing is excellent. Gag grouper have invaded the nearshore ledges and hard-bottom areas, feeding aggressively ...

The Clarkspoon has been around since 1927, and it’s been filling coolers with Spanish mackerel ever since. Dense enough that, even in the small sizes, you can fire one a mile and hit that distant ...

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1: At Big Pier 60 in Clearwater, a good variety of fish have been caught this week including black sea bass, sheepshead, flounder, pompano, mangrove snapper, and silver trout. A 40-inch snook and a 36 ...

From now until autumn, one of the more productive ways to catch fish is with a live-bait rig. Live-bait rigs are simple set-ups, but they’re so effective so much of the time. Whether you’re after ...

Anglers who fish offshore or inshore can celebrate the holiday season by catching Spanish mackerel, which are plentiful in South Florida from December through March. Fishing for the smaller cousin of ...

1. At Big Pier 60 in Clearwater, sheepshead, mangrove snapper, speckled trout and flounder have been the most consistent catches. A good size redfish was also caught this week. Starting on Saturday, ...