Jan Maizler News & Tips

News & Tips: Travel Blog: Ambergris Caye
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Travel Blog: Ambergris Caye

It's dawn and the eastern sun hauls up a "Japanese" sunrise with bars of blue, yellow and orange into the darker gray…
News & Tips: Travel Blog: Long Caye Island Resort, Belize...
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Travel Blog: Long Caye Island Resort, Belize

I was onboard a silvery 737 bound for Belize's newest "offshore" flats fishing operation, Long Caye Island Resort. This…
News & Tips: Bridge Fishing for Snook
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Bridge Fishing for Snook

Anglers new to snook fishing should realize that the "linesider" is a tropical species, more often found in the…
News & Tips: Travel: Puerto Rico's Fabulous Tarpon
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Travel: Puerto Rico's Fabulous Tarpon

My journey in the sleek silvery jet from Miami was nearing completion. The pilot announced that he'd begun our descent…
News & Tips: Travel Blog: SOFLA Freshwater Gala
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Travel Blog: SOFLA Freshwater Gala

In discussing the trip with Lake Ida's Captain Butch Moser, I found out that his grandson David would be accompanying…
News & Tips: Travel Blog: Bud N' Mary's Marina, Islamorada, Florida...
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Travel Blog: Bud N' Mary's Marina, Islamorada, Florida

It seemed like ages since I'd been to Bud N' Mary's. From where I stand now, looking back over proverbial oceans of…
News & Tips: Permit Fishing on the Flats
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Permit Fishing on the Flats

Though permit on the flats can be found outside the United States in such places as Roatan, Cuba, parts of the Bahamas…
News & Tips: Travel Blog: Island Inn, Sanibel, Florida...
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Travel Blog: Island Inn, Sanibel, Florida

As Captain Ken Collette and I made our way westward across the state, we were stoked to get to Sanibel Island. We'd…
News & Tips: Seatrout Tactics
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Seatrout Tactics

Seatrout have one or two fang-like teeth that makes them an effective predator. Spotted seatrout, also known as "…
News & Tips: Travel: Tarpon Lodge, Pine Island, Florida...
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Travel: Tarpon Lodge, Pine Island, Florida

I've always liked to think of southwest Florida as my second home. So many of my angling travels relied on and reveled…
News & Tips: Travel Blog: Miami's Peacock Bass Bonanza...
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Travel Blog: Miami's Peacock Bass Bonanza

I've just got done doing a freshwater peacock bass trip with local on-foot "land guide" Urban Angler Miami and the…
News & Tips: Travel Blog: Deadman's Cay, Long Island, Bahamas...
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Travel Blog: Deadman's Cay, Long Island, Bahamas

As we poled around the corner of a creek, we came upon a triangular sand flat surrounded by two channels that ran out…