The New Moon occurs today at 5:40 p.m., which means the best fishing time is from 4 p.m. to dark for the next three days. The second best time is about twelve hours later in the morning when the secondary feeding migration takes place. This pattern moves slightly forward (starts later each day) about 30 minutes per day and decreases in intensity during this process – bad news for the daytime anglers and fishermen. ...more

December 9, 2007

This week the full moon occurs on Friday night at 11:03 p.m. and for anglers and fishermen this means excellent nighttime bite and not-so-good daytime bite. During last spring and summer, the lunar cycle occurred during the midday hours mostly, but now shifts to the other side of the solar cycle. ...more

November 7, 2007

Each week I sit down twice to write a forecast hoping to enable fishermen and anglers to achieve success by providing a base understanding of physical environmental factors and laws which all aquatic life exist by. ...more

November 4, 2007

If you're going out in a kayak, you are required to have two things - a personal flotation device (I sometimes sit on mine) and a whistle, or some type of noise maker. ...more

November 2, 2007

Today is the third day after the full moon and also the tail end of a front which moved through our area slowly over the last three days. This is not good news for the fishermen. However, there is some hope if he knows where the fish have been recently, with an exact knowledge of the right place and time. Temperatures have been dropping, which is promising news since it means the pre-staging of bass starts soon if it already has not. On many lakes, reports of spawning bass being caught are circulating in several bait stores and fish camps. ...more

October 28, 2007

The best time of the fishing day is from sunrise to 11 a.m., no matter which lake you fish. ...more

October 22, 2007

Recreational anglers, fishing guides and marine scientists bumped heads on Tampa Bay on Friday when a state redfish research vessel ran a net around a school of redfish near the mouth of the Manatee River. ...more

October 21, 2007

We could celebrate Oct. 15 for a lot of reasons: It's the day the Edison Electric Light Company began operations, the day 'I Love Lucy' premiered and the anniversary of the first audience 'wave' at a sporting event. ...more

October 17, 2007

Six friends went to a fishing tournament looking to catch some grouper. They caught an 844-pound mako shark instead. ...more

October 15, 2007

Ray Markham's Go Fishing column for today points out one of the interesting ways various types of jigs can be used to pursue mackerel as they move from one depth to another, and as always, Markham's analysis is spot on. ...more

October 10, 2007