With a weak full moon occurring tomorrow at 7:15 p.m. the stronger of the two daily feeding migrations will be exactly at that same time. ...more

November 1, 2009

Although many reef anglers say they are catching more small gag grouper than at any time in the past 20 years, state and federal fishery managers have confirmed a plan to reduce the bag limit on the popular reef species to one per person per day as part of an aggregate bag of five groupers of all species. Formerly, Gulf anglers could take up to five gags daily. ...more

December 21, 2008

On Friday, the first-quarter moon phase occurs at 9:26 p.m., and this means a new early-morning bite starts to build in intensity and duration. ...more

December 3, 2008

They come like a gray river flowing through the sea. Spanish mackerel by the hundreds of thousands are beginning their annual migration, a journey that takes them some 400 miles from the Florida Panhandle to the Keys, and for many several hundred miles more back up the east coast before they make the return trip in spring. ...more

October 12, 2008

Today's forecast has both good news and bad news, and since I always prefer the bad news first, you don't have a choice. The bad news is that today the moon is the furthest away from the earth, which means it has little or no effect on fish and wildlife. Fish will not be migrating in a predictable pattern to feed. Instead, they feed when their environment provides the best conditions to successfully find food. ...more

October 5, 2008

Today at 8:12 a.m., we're one day before the new moon, which means today through Thursday fishing should be good to excellent at the very least. ...more

September 28, 2008

To be honest, it doesn't look like much of a spot for catching fish. ...more

June 20, 2008

The full moon happens today at 5:30 p.m., and with all daytime full moons, the effects during the daytime are as accentuated as the regular increased nighttime affects. If this moon phase occurred at 1 a.m., the nighttime feeding migration would be off the charts and the daytime feeding migration would be almost non-existent. ...more

June 17, 2008

The New Moon arrives today at 7:23 p.m. which means the angler is in for the best fishing conditions of the month. This New Moon is closer to the earth than previous New Moons and this only enhances the usual affects of this phase of the moon cycles. The main daytime feeding migration occurs from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and rates as a 10 on a scale from 1 to 10, with 10 being the best rating. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the feeding migration is literally off the ratings chart. ...more

June 1, 2008

The full moon arrives on Tuesday at 1:35 p.m. and will influence the fish greatly during the daytime. The normal daytime feeding migrations will increase in intensity and duration and the nighttime feeding migrations will decrease by the same amount. A cold front arrived Saturday and continues to pass through our area today. This will hold back the affects of the full moon. However, whenever a weather condition causes fish to hold in a suspended pattern instead of migrating, it's because of their natural impulse. As the weather passes and returns to normal conditions, during the first migration afterward the majority of the fish move into a very large feeding migration period. ...more

January 20, 2008