Fishing

You explain the tides; the acquisition of live bait and the marina support and the displeasure fades, but you have an indicator of how this particular trip might play out.

Anglers won't be able to keep a snook in Southwest Florida until September 2011 under rules approved today by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Catch and release still would be allowed under the rule.

Griff Gosnell holds up one of several grouper he caught while fishing with family offshore in about 40 feet of water. E-mail your photo to cgillis@naplesnews.com to be considered for this feature.

Florida wildlife commissioners will decide Thursday whether the snook, one of Florida’s most prized and climate-sensitive sport fish, has recovered enough from last winter’s cold snap to lift a temporary ban on catching them.

Well, we have made it through August without any of those big windy things with a name, and September should be the start of our really good fall fishing.

Wesley Bedell hoists a giant African pompano he landed while fishing offshore. E-mail your photo to cgillis@naplesnews.com to be considered for this feature.

It's day three of the monsoon season for the Naples area, and everything and everybody is getting moldy, so this low pressure can move out ASAP.

The event that initiated this " charter-from-hell" came in an email in February 2008. You’ll have to believe me that the email shown in the sidebar is an actual transcription. After all, who could possibly make up anything quite as ...

With the sun doing its best to cook any angler foolish enough to be on the water, inshore fishing has been a little on the slow side this past week.

Colin Aldridge caught this 24-inch red grouper on live shrimp in 70 feet, about 36 miles west of New Pass, on a recent offshore trip with Captain Dave Hanson of Fishbuster Charters. E-mail your photo to cgillis@naplesnews.com to be considered ...

Captain John Brossard sent in this image of Michael Lazarus with a 3-foot blacktip shark caught off Marco Island. Brossard wrote: "He and his father landed nicesharks (blacktips and lemons). ...They kept this one to eat. Blacktip sharks are great ...

Hot and wet describes the weather for the last week which has caused many a fisherman to stay at home either in the air conditioning or in the pool. If you did go out and missed the rain, you probably ...

To see how all that might play out in the real world, let me share with you the events of a trip we took last week on one of the worst of the scorcher days.

For those many, it no longer is it the relaxation, beauty and pure sport, it has become a matter of acquisition or “how many filets did you bring home.”

Several Southwest Florida fishermen are reeling in some financial relief after filing claims with BP. Some fishermen are reporting more success with their claims than others and the reasons can be as murky as whether it was the bait or ...