The big concern for anglers for the next few days is the strong winds out of the south-southwest, with speeds of 15 to 25 miles per hour and gusts up to 30 mph. ...more

February 11, 2009

The full moon occurs Monday at 2:50 p.m., which is good news for daytime anglers because this means the nighttime effect of producing light is minimized greatly. ...more

February 8, 2009

Hopefully you experienced a great Christmas, had the weekend off and did a little fishing on your favorite Highlands County lakes. ...more

January 2, 2009

An enduring superstition says a full moon sends pregnant women into labor. ...more

August 21, 2008

Early this week, as the full moon rose and Tropical Storm Fay sneaked up the Gulf Coast, at least one major hospital in Tampa saw a spooky number of women in labor waddle their way through the hospital doors. ...more

August 20, 2008

The new moon occurred very early this morning at 2:19 a.m., causing the aquatic world to swim further, hunt longer and feed less in order to sustain their increased metabolisms. ...more

July 2, 2008

We are approaching the first-quarter moon on Tuesday at 7:46 p.m., and thank goodness for that, because the last week was very slow — and I mean real slow. I tried everything short of explosives to get a fish into the boat, and the best I could come up with was a few bass the size of my Yum Dinger 7-inch worm. I believe the overwhelming majority of bass were feeding at night, despite the fact that the new moon occurred near noon last Tuesday. ...more

January 13, 2008

Back in the days when man first ventured out of the caves and celebrated the occasion by giving thanks to the Great Spirit the people vowed that the preparation time for their holidays would be limited to some reasonable amount of time. Like perhaps the cycle of one moon, which many eons later was called a month and many eons after that they were given a name: As in October which is what the moon cycle before the one when thanks was given to the Great Spirit and out of which our country's first displaced inhabitants evolved. And many eons after that first giving of thanks the Great Spirit returned the recognition of his people by rewarding them with a special gift of his own. A man-child. The appearance of this gift held such significance for the people that they name a day after it. They called it Christmas. Now when the two things are considered – limiting preparations to no more than on a lunar cycle and the acceptance of the gift of the Great Spirit – it would appear that the preparations for Christmas should occur at the earliest around the time that the feast of thanksgiving is celebrated. And for many years this is how it came to pass. ...more

October 20, 2007