What's hot: The beaches are covered in baitfish. Threadfin herring and scaled sardines can be found up and down our coast. Migratory species are preying on these bait schools. Spanish mackerel, ...

The heat is truly on here in Southwest Florida. While it is still springtime and the month of May, southeasterly trade winds, ambient heat, warming Gulf water and potent afternoon thunderstorms are ...

Off of the Jensen Beach area, there has been decent action for summer sailfish and dolphin in 90 to 120 feet of water. They are hitting live baits including pilchards, threadfin herring and sardines.

Captain Pete Rapps of Captain Rapps’ Charters and Guides out of Chokoloskee reported snook are feeding on a good moving outgoing tide around the outside barrier islands. Live baits such as the ...

OFF CLEARWATER BEACH — Dave Mistretta scanned the water a mile off the beach for signs of schooling fish. For weeks, the only bait the charter boat captain could find were glass minnows, a bite-sized ...

Traditional beacons including, blooming poinciana trees, hatches of crabs flushing from shallow creeks and shoals of threadfin herring pouring in from the Gulf of Mexico waters signifies that it is ...

Off of the Jensen Beach area, there are still plenty of dolphin, sailfish and blackfin tuna being caught. Though there haven't been a lot of big blackfin tuna, the numbers have been great with plenty ...

One of the world’s oldest and most sought-after species of fish made their presence felt across Tampa Bay and Gulf beaches this past week. Since prehistoric times, the silver king has roamed Earth’s ...

That's a difficult question to answer, but there's little doubt both are hot. And tarpon fishing in Boca Grande Pass has been very good. Most of the action is occurring during the day for those using ...