Florida's stone crab season opens Wednesday, meaning commercial and recreational crabbers can begin pulling the granite-shelled delicacies from traps that have been collecting the crustaceans in the Gulf of Mexico the past 10 days. ...more

October 13, 2008

According to surveys conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service, American anglers caught some 468 million saltwater fish of all species last year. Of those, 272 million, or 58 percent, were released alive. ...more

July 23, 2008

One of the most common e-mails I get these days is from readers who have been here a year or two, but have yet to master the basics of success in inshore saltwater fishing. It's a big, confusing world out there on the water, and many find it so challenging and frustrating they eventually give up and take up golf - which, of course, has no frustrations. ...more

May 4, 2008