Bass Pro Shops founder Johnny Morris’ conservation ethics runs deep. He first learned to love the outdoors at an early age while floating and fishing Ozark streams with his father, John A. Morris. As…
Fishing is one of those things in life where you can do your best planning, but in the end must defer to King Weather. And the recent trip my friend Alan Williams and I made to Anna Maria Island to…
Snook (centropomus undecimalus) are generally found along the structure of inshore brackish ecologies. Because of its temperature tolerance range and tropical/Central/South American origins, "USA…
As I surveyed the crowd outside of the Bass Pro Shops Tallahassee Outpost during its grand opening/ribbon-cutting ceremony earlier this month, I was reminded of the telephone-booth stuffing craze…
I've always liked to think of southwest Florida as my second home. So many of my angling travels relied on and reveled in Gulfside resort towns like Naples, Sanibel, and Sarasota. But there was one…
Bimini, a chain of islands located in the westernmost district of the Bahamas, lies only 48 nautical miles east of Miami, Florida. For U.S. boaters making their first crossing to the Bahamas, Bimini…
My first experience with Charlotte Harbor showed me what truly immense Florida marine habitat looks like — I simply was not used to losing sight of two opposite enclosing shorelines while I sat…
Another way fly line can become tangled is if it has become twisted. Remove the fly and drag the entire fly line behind the boat. Twisted fly lines are unruly and difficult to fish with.…
To straighten heavy monofilament for tarpon leaders, cut a 25 inch piece of 1/4 inch PVC pipe and install a cap on both ends. Cut the mono to length and put as many pieces as you can in the…
There is no doubt about it that the six more weeks of winter since Groundhog Day has stretched even further into the spring.
As I write this morning from Houston, Texas, the temperature is hovering…
Practice fly fishing casting technique, loop shape. Stand in the yard and aerialize 40 feet of line. Using the double haul, experiment with how a harder or longer haul effects loop shape. The…
At the beginning of this year, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission held a competition to boost awareness about one of the Everglades’ most imposing invasive species -- the Burmese…
