When you already live in paradise (Southwest Florida) where do you go on vacation? Most folks try their best to find a way to visit our neck of the woods, while us locals may want to find a destination up north. During a recently family vacation, we made the long-day-trek northwards to Charleston to enjoy […]
aftco, charleston, redfish, sewell, shimanoRedfish love to eat crabs. It’s a primary forage for bull redfish that frequent inlets all around the southern coasts. While the effectiveness of using real crab or cut crab baits is apparent, finding these baits can sometimes be difficult or expensive. THE MISSION: I recently had a chance to fish with Bull Redfish expert, […]
crab, hogy, redfish, sewell, shimano
It’s the end of August here in Southwest Florida and it sure has been a hot one. It was a fairly uneventful month weather wise, with the usual barrage of heat, humidity and afternoon storms. It’s not a terrible time to be a local, spend some time lounging in the pool and get your fishing […]
redfish, Sewell Rods, snook, tarpon
Springtime is in full swing. Minus a few quick and blustery cold fronts, we are well on our way into one of the best fishing periods of the year. Water temps have been climbing into the upper 70’s, even reaching 80° in areas. Big schools or sardines and threadfins have swarmed along area beaches, passes and […]
hobie, pine island sound, redfish, Sewell Rods
The redfish bite has quickly been improving as we move along into mid March. On a recent trip with Capt. Mike Herzog of Rip N Lip Charters we set out to target redfish in Pine Island Sound. There have been several large schools of reds hanging along the outer islands in 2′ – 4′ of […]
redfish, Sewell Rods, shimano, sustain
The fishing here in Southwest Florida is just about to snap into over drive. Water temps are warmer than normal for this time of year and fishing is starting to kick off sooner than normal as well. Bait: Threadfin and Sardines have shown back up in good numbers. Bringing with them good numbers of cobia, […]
cobia, grouper, inshore fishing, matlacha, pine island sound, redfish, reports, sanibel, snook, tarpon
Over the past 10 years, I’ve had the opportunity to try our a fair share of production rods for inshore – light tackle fishing. Some rods were good, while others were lacking. It seemed like I was in a kind of “rod rut” and felt complacent fishing with sub-par rods. Granted they worked okay, but […]
fishing tackle, gear reviews, inshore fishing, redfish, Sewell Rods, snook, tarpon
It looks like the fall fishing bite may have started. Redfish have been gathering in decent sized schools over the past week. Some schools are holding 50 fish, others close to 100. Coming into October, it’s possible to find schools of 200 – 400 fish. These days can be epic and the bite can last […]
inshore, matlacha, redfish
Pine Island Sound Fishing Report: Redfish Everywhere Our fishing adventure today began early. Up at 4am to drop a friend off at the airport, back to the house and loaded the gear up in the truck. At Punta Rassa boat ramp by 6am and north into Pine Island Sound we went. The cruise was comfortable […]
hogy, pine island sound, ranger boats, redfish, Sewell RodsI filmed this early February while searching out some new way back spots around Pine Island Sound. The creek entrance was less than 6 inches deep during low tide, but as we headed back several hundred yards up the creek and located a very deep bend. It was loaded up with snook and redfish of […]
hobie, pine island sound, redfish, sight fishing, snook