With 2024 behind us, let’s look ahead to a new year of fishing and with luck, no hurricanes. January is generally our coolest month, and our water temperature will be the lowest of the year. Lucky for us, Southwest Florida cool fronts only last a day or two, then it’s back to sunny, mild ...
Plan to fish around cold fronts for the next few months. That’s the routine in winter, a cold front with a couple windy and cools days, followed by several days with perfect weather, then repeat. In Gulf waters, fishing depths from 25 to 45 feet, anglers report a mixed catch of sheepshead, ...
As typical for winter in Southwest Florida, weather was all over the place last week. We experienced a few days with calm seas and clear skies, many days with strong winds, a cold front, rain, plus extremely low tides. So as expected, fishing was up and down as well. Over the calm days, ...
The first week of December kicked off with colder than average temperatures and days with extremely low tides. Some days the wind blew and on others the water was flat calm. Fishing overall for the week wasn’t too bad for a choice of species. Shrimp, shrimp imitations and shrimp and jig ...
The Tommy Bohanon Foundation collected 600 toys for local children and raised $20,000 in monetary contributions at the fifth annual Tommy Bohanon Foundation Softball Tournament. Held Nov. 30 at the Northwest Softball Complex in Cape Coral, the event drew 12 coed teams of varying skill levels ...
December brings cooler days around Southwest Florida and a change in the way many of us fish. As temperatures drop, it will push small baitfish offshore and south to warmer waters. As this occurs, shrimp will become the primary diet for most fish through the winter months. There are few fish in ...
