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One of my favorite places to fish in Tampa Bay! Did you see the spoonbills?

Will probably launch around sunrise- white truck, dark green canoe. Not the greatest tide, maybe a little windy but it's what I got! I stink at fishing the place too. Off the water by noon then stop in next door at the Tarpon Lodge for a cold one. If anyone is heading this way and wants to fish, sho...

Todd, The fish you spotted are most likely Atlantic bumpers, aka Cloroscombus chrysurus , local vernacular, "pumpkinseed". Like a skipjack, their dorsal and anal spines are venomous. The little ones do like to hang out around jellyfish and seem to be immune to the nematocysts. There isn't ...

Everything about snook- from the 2005 stock assessment. BTW, all of this was presented to the stakeholders (general public) at the Institute in St. Pete. If you have the time and really want to learn the science behind the scenes, this is the read. http://research.myfwc.com/engine/download_redirecti...

An example below of a fishery closed then reopened.

http://research.myfwc.com/features/view ... p?id=32280

http://www.myfwc.com/NEWSROOM/10/statew ... losed3.htm Apologies if this has already been posted.

Ok, ok----we call them "Bee-cry" for short. Have some other interesting nicknames for fish. A few I regretfully cannot post.

We call

Lizardfish- "Donkey fish".

Redfish- "Redbird".

Skipjack- "YikYak".

Pinfish- "Rambo"

That is a Bairdiella chrysoura or common name, "Silver perch". It is a scianedae spp./member of the drum family. We catch them all over the place in our trawls, small and big seines. Butterfish is Northern Gulf of Mexico vernacular for the species Lei. xanthurus or common name, "Spot&...

Great photos! Obviously a pre-spawn fish, eh? Thanks for posting that Noles.

Crunch and Des by Philip Wylie. Read some at http://www.amazon.com/Crunch-Classic-Stories-Saltwater-Fishing/dp/1558210806#reader_1558210806 It's a treasure and a beautiful book to own- sport fishing from another time. The Book of Tarpon by A. W. Dimock. A classic with amazing photos for the time. I...

overtheedge86, I work at the FWC/FWRI Charlotte Harbor Field Lab as a Biological Scientist. The division I work for is Fisheries Independent Monitoring- In a nutshell- http://research.myfwc.com/features/view_article.asp?id=20074 The FWRI website is a treasure chest of information for anglers. Just a...

I have really gotten into freshwater fish ID this year at work so I'll give it a whirl. If I would hazard a guess from your picture, I would say gizzard shad, Dorosoma cepedianum . At the very least it is a member of the family Clupeidae. Do you think your fish looked like this one below? http://www...

Congratulations Dave! Were you able to get a DNA sample?

Dave, Same here. Last weekend John and I took the skiff to N. Captiva to fish off the beach. It's a 49 mile roundtrip from Matlacha. We left in the dark. Our sole mission was to catch a tarpon on fly. We are sitting quiet when up pops a tail. I don't know if you see it where you fish, but tarpon tai...

Mission accomplished. One big tarpon jumped yesterday, on deadbait, on flyrod in south Matlacha Pass. Hooked one unidentified shark too. Didn't have to break tarpon off. Fish ate bait, thought I set the hook, fish swung around, jumped towards me and spat out the mullet head right next to the canoe. ...

Rick,

I miss you!