A jetty is the only place in Florida where you can stand on dry land and cast into thirty feet of moving water. Here is how to fish one — and how to get off it in one piece.
The fish is in the box — now don’t ruin it. Ice, knife work, storage and three cooking methods that turn a good day on the water into a good dinner.
You don’t need forty knots. You need six — and the discipline to tie them right when your hands are wet and something big just ate.
Four Florida piers worth the drive, what each one actually catches, and the two famous names still on every list that you cannot fish right now.
A pier puts you over 25 feet of water three minutes from the car. Here’s the licence rule almost everyone gets wrong, and how to fish all three zones.
Mesh size decides whether you catch bait or gill it. The net to buy, how to open one, and the vessel limit that tightens during the mullet run.
The popping cork is the highest-percentage rig in Florida inshore fishing, and most anglers work it wrong. Here is the leader length, the cadence, and the pause that does the actual catching.
The slot is the same everywhere. Nothing else is. All nine FWC seatrout regions in one table – plus the two rules that are going to cost people citations this year.
The biggest redfish of the year show up in the passes each fall. Here is when the run peaks, the jetties and inlets that hold them, the tackle that will not get spooled, and the slot-limit trap that catches people out.
No boat, no problem. The complete beginner’s guide to Florida surf fishing — how to read a beach, the one rod-and-rig setup that covers everything, the three baits that matter, and what’s biting each season.