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| | | By CAPT. MEL BERMAN, 970-WFLA |  |
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| | Yes sir, we're talking about those occasions when the fish bite like crazy, nailing every bait you'd throw at them. It is indeed what keeps us hard core fishing junkies enduring those more common slow, boring trips, and all kinds of foul weather. It’s what motivates us to plunk down hard earned cash for expensive accouterments associated with our angling obsession. And it's interesting how indelibly recorded into our memories these banner fishing adventures can be. I've lived in Florida long enough to qualify me to sport one of those "Almost-Native" bumper stickers. More | | | | | | CapMel.com will continue honoring the legacy of Captain Mel Berman. Keep visiting for exciting new articles and updates. | | More fishing reports and articles: | | | Time to play in Palma Sola Bay Just a little bit south of the Bradenton’s Memorial Avenue Causeway, off the northern end of Sarasota Bay, is a diverse fishing habitat known as Palma Sola Bay. There, one has access to miles of productive shorelines ringed with oyster bars and mangrove points. Great schools of mullet are often seen working through the area, almost always stalked by hungry populations of redfish and snook. The deepest part of Palma Sola Bay is a channel that runs through its center, which is surrounded on either side by sand bars. Between the sandbars and mangrove shoreline is a trough, which provides ideal ambush points for the resident species | | Flying carp threaten bond ratings, Great Lakes fish William Contos has piloted barges on the Chicago canal connecting the Mississippi River to the Great Lakes for a quarter century, hauling salt that melts ice off the city’s roads and coal that feeds its power plants. Denny Grinold also depends on the water, running a charter salmon-fishing outfit in Grand Haven, Michigan. Both men’s livelihood is at risk from the Asian carp, a non-native fish that threatens to enter Lake Michigan through the canal. Fifty members of Congress, including several from Illinois, sent a letter to President Barack Obama’s administration today urging it to consider closing the canal’s locks. | | | Fish can still be found beyond the chill There's no question that Florida's inshore fisheries took a whack from this month's Big Chill. There's also no question that there are plenty of fish left and angling action should be fine on most fronts as soon as the water gets even warmer than it has the past week. "We found one place where there were so many trout it looked like the whole bottom moved," said captain Scott Moore, who also said he is seeing fair numbers of snook, evidence that the cold kill left some survivors of this delicate species. | | Get Your Feet Wet - Catch Fish! Wade fishing, has to be on of the most enjoyable ways of fishing our skinny Florida waters. Our late wadefishing and kayak fishing expert, Jay Brewington, before he passed, told us why he believed this very popular style of angling is so much fun and, best of all, so very productive. In addition, Jay shared his expertise when it comes to some of the equipment you'll need to "get your feet wet" as a wading angler. And best of all, how to be very productive wade fishing our bountiful local waters. | | | Record largemouth bass caught in Japan DANIA BEACH --- After nearly six months of waiting, Japan’s Manabu Kurita is taking his place along side Georgia, USA angler George Perry in the International Game Fish Association’s (IGFA) World Record Games Fishes book as dual holders of the All-Tackle record for largemouth bass each weighing 22 lb 4 oz and caught 77 years apart. Today the IGFA approved Kurita’s application for the fish caught from Japan’s largest lake on July 2, 2009. The 70-year old non-profit fisheries conservation, education and record-keeping body, received Kurita’s application and documentation on Sept. 19, 2009. | | A Winter-time weapon the “Tube bait” When water temps start plummeting during the “dead of winter”, inshore fishing can get very tough. Since fish are cold-blooded, their appetites are generally suppressed during colder periods… this creates quite a challenge for those of us who enjoy throwing artificial baits. In fact, it requires us to painfully slow down our presentations and choose bait profiles that appear natural and easy for game fish to catch. The tube bait has always been my “go-to” lure when confronted with these demanding conditions! The attributes of the tube bait are numerous... | | | With spinning reels, put the line on correctly for best results There's no shortage of reasons to keep a few spinning reels in the boat. Perhaps you haven't yet mastered a baitcasting reel or maybe the fishing conditions require you to downsize your bait selection to try to finesse a bite. Either way, despite the ease of use on a spinning reel, there are some common problems that even the most experienced anglers encounter when using them. Some of these problems can be lessened - if not avoided all together - by properly spooling line onto the reel. | | Acid oceans: the 'evil twin' of climate change Far from Copenhagen's turbulent climate talks, the sea lions, harbor seals and sea otters reposing along the shoreline and kelp forests of this protected marine area stand to gain from any global deal to cut greenhouse gases. These foragers of the sanctuary's frigid waters, flipping in and out of sight of California's coastal kayakers, may not seem like obvious beneficiaries of a climate treaty crafted in the Danish capital. But reducing carbon emissions worldwide also would help mend a lesser-known environmental problem: ocean acidification. | | | FWC makes bonefish a sportfish - Adds more shark protections The FWC voted last month to elevate public awareness of the importance of Florida bonefish by declaring it a saltwater game fish. "Bonefish are one of the major reasons Florida is 'The Fishing Capital of the World,'" said FWC Chairman Rodney Barreto. "We took this action today to emphasize how important the bonefish fishery is to Florida anglers, visitors and South Florida's recreational fishing industry." It is illegal to commercially harvest and sell bonefish in Florida, and sport anglers are allowed to keep only one bonefish 18 inches in fork length or greater per day. | | Anglers keep plugging for lost friend : After two weeks of bitter cold, the sun finally broke through the clouds and warmed the water enough that the fish would bite. "It seems like this happens every year," said Al Autenrieth, for whom the month of January holds special meaning. "Whenever the Johnny Kellar Tournament rolls around, you know it is going to be cold." In 1990, Autenrieth and fellow members of the Old Salt Fishing Club took a little boy fishing. The 9-year-old hemophiliac, who had tested positive for HIV after a receiving blood transfusion, was having a hard time fitting in. "He felt alone and isolated," his mother Margie Kellar recalled. " | | | EPA delays decision on more ethanol in gas: Is it just about cars? More ethanol in the nation's gasoline supply? Not just yet, said the Environmental Protection Agency when it announced it will delay making a decision on a waiver requested by the pro-ethanol lobbying group Growth Energy to increase the amount of ethanol in gas beyond the current 10% level. However, the country's largest recreational boating organization says it remains concerned that the EPA said that it will review initial findings on testing of mid-level ethanol blends... | | Big catch a big problem for Marco man charged with illegal snook netting A big catch has a Marco Island man in big trouble. Authorities say they caught 56-year-old Leslie Roy Morse poaching protected snook Tuesday afternoon off a dock near the Stevens Landing condominium complex. Snook are struggling to survive in the unusually cold weather and many have been stunned by it, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Capt. Jayson Horadam said. "They’re very vulnerable right now," Horadam said. "They don’t do cold very well at all. ... | | | The options are many in lower Tampa Bay One would think that an area along the southeastern shore of a major metropolis like Tampa Bay would be a difficult place to scare up a decent snook or redfish. But nothing could be further from the truth. Fortunately for the environment and the thousands of fishing enthusiasts, Lower Tampa Bay is still a rich, pristine environment. It is an intricate maze of mangrove islands and passes that hold thousands of inshore species of every sort. | | Snook season closed What might turn out to be the greatest fish kill in Florida's modern history resulted from this year's unprecedented cold snap. Ron Taylor, lead snook biologist for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg, called the kill "historic." "We've never had 10 straight days where the air never got above 60," Taylor said. "We've had reports of 15,000 snook dead, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are 10 times that out there underwater dead, too." |
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