GO FISHING is a daily look at the area fishing scene through the eyes of local charter boat captains and fishing guides. Today: Ray Markham. ...more

July 2, 2008

GO FISHING is a daily look at the area fishing scene through the eyes of local charter boat captains and fishing guides. Today: Mel Berman. ...more

June 28, 2008

They couldn't make it any more obvious. While channel markers, buoys and range markers are not intended to guide anglers to their quarry, the huge, brightly colored navigation aids are always a good place to start looking for kingfish, Spanish mackerel, blues, bonito, cobia or tripletail, to say nothing of virtually every type of offshore baitfish that swims in the Gulf of Mexico. ...more

June 27, 2008

It has been the hottest June I can remember in 14 years of fishing Tampa Bay, but despite the heat, the fishing was pretty good. ...more

June 25, 2008

Bait has been everywhere in the Bay for the past few weeks. ...more

June 11, 2008

There's no fish - ever - that you can go out and catch for sure. But for the past several years, Spanish mackerel have been edging closer to the sure-thing category along Florida's west coast. Thanks to years of protection from gill nets, as well as modest recreational limits, there are now more and bigger mackerel than at any time in the past 30 years. ...more

June 6, 2008

GO FISHING is a daily look at the area fishing scene through the eyes of local charter boat captains and fishing guides. Today: Mel Berman. ...more

May 31, 2008

GO FISHING is a daily look at the area fishing scene through the eyes of local charter boat captains and fishing guides. Today: Ray Markham. ...more

May 28, 2008

There's probably nowhere else in the nation with so many fishing opportunities for the boatless than in the Bay area. ...more

May 23, 2008

GO FISHING is a daily look at the area fishing scene through the eyes of local charter boat captains and fishing guides. Today: Mike Anderson, right, with "Reel Animals" partner Billy Nobles. ...more

May 23, 2008