Since the new moon occurs in the very early morning hours this Wednesday at 2:19 a.m., today begins the best six days of fishing for the month of July. Today the peak feeding migration will occur between the hours of 8 to 11 a.m. From Monday through Wednesday, this migration will increase in duration and intensity. If you don't have plans to be on the lake for the Fourth of July, you're making a mistake. ...more

June 28, 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

Former Tampa Bay Buccaneer quarterback Vinny Testaverde has been cited for clear-cutting more than 40 trees on his lakefront property. ...more

June 13, 2008

This week, expect a fading afternoon feeding migration — which started with the new moon last Tuesday — and a rapid building of a new morning feeding migration brought on by the first quarter moon phase, which happens at 3:04 p.m. Tuesday. If we experience rain during the night, the very early morning bite (5 a.m. to 7 a.m.) — should be very good. If not, the affects of the moon will trigger fish to move into feeding areas by 8 a.m. This new morning feeding migration will increase in intensity and duration dramatically each day for the next seven days. ...more

June 8, 2008

SEMINOLE - The roughly 20,000 fingerling bass put into Lake Seminole today got the shock of their young lives. The largemouth bass raised for two months at a state hatchery went from pampered to prey in the harsh real world of predators and finding their own food. ...more

May 28, 2008

The forecast looks very good for the next four days, with the full moon happening on Thursday morning at 3:30 am, a Lunar Eclipse occurring just four to five hours before that, and the weather warming up slightly with light winds shifting from east to south at five to 10 mph. ...more

February 19, 2008

The cause-and-effect cliche is well known. As for exorbitant gasoline and related prices, we should reverse to effect, cause, who? Effect: Incredibly costly gasoline and thousands of other things directly and indirectly related to the cost of petroleum products, and hostage to foreign oil, which is the primary supporter of global terrorism. Cause: Legislation which forbids drilling for oil in Alaska, off shore, and many other areas of our country; establishing impossible hurdles to building oil refineries, (none in about the last 30 years,) nearly impossible hurdles to building nuclear and coal fueled power plants. Blasted powdered coal emits little pollution. Trees and other vegetation need carbons to survive and emit oxygen, which all animals need. ...more

January 21, 2008

The battle is finally over. After almost two years of meetings and county commission hearings, the county commission awarded residents of Waterchase $60,000 to put up a landscape barrier to shield their homes from the newly expanded Race Track Road. ...more

December 12, 2007

"This is the worst environmental disaster in the United States since the Exxon Valdez accident ... and the greatest forest destruction in modern times," said James Cummins, executive director of the nonprofit environmental group Wildlife Mississippi. ...more

November 16, 2007

The full moon occurs at 4:52 a.m. Friday, but fishing conditions improve very little from what normally occurs during this lunar cycle. The reason for this is that the water temperature has not dropped enough — allowing a higher oxygen level which cooler water provides. Instead, lake temperatures remain between 78 to 82 degrees, which is five degrees lower than the summertime highs. Once the water temperature norm arrives in the mid to lower 70s, nighttime oxygen levels stay nearer the daytime high, and this means early morning at 4:52, bass are able to feed as they naturally would be inclined due to the full moon event. Remember, the higher the oxygen, the greater the ability of larger fish to feed and digest as their metabolisms operates on a more constant 24-hour level. ...more

October 25, 2007