Bonito are the appetizer to the entrée that is albie season. Fishermen looking for that first taste of inshore pelagics can find it, most years, by the middle of July. By August, it’s a sure thing that the bonito have settled in.
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Capt. Jay heads in search of a different look at Miami night life. Meeting up with Captain Nestor Alvisa, the two professionals head out for some exciting nighttime tarpon fishing.
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Sandbar sharks, known locally as brown sharks, are a highly migratory species found in subtropical waters around the world. The sandbar sharks we see in southern New England likely spend the winter months near Florida, the Bahamas, and the Gulf of Mexico. They arrive in Nantucket waters at the end of June, and their numbers seem consistent through early September. The Cape and Islands is the northernmost extent of their habitat in the North Atlantic.
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.Nantucket Shoals is a vast area of shallow and constantly shifting bottom that extends 23 miles east and 40 miles southeast from Nantucket. Depths in this area can change from 100 feet to 5 feet over the length of a football field, creating tidal rips and breaking waves that have given the area its reputation as a ship graveyard. However, the same conditions that make Nantucket Shoals hazardous for boaters provide incredible habitat for gamefish.
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Waypoint’s most popular show FLATS CLASS IS BACK and BETTER THAN EVER! Since its previous season, host and creator Capt. C.A. Richardson signed with a brand new production team that has brought stunning cinematography and a killer sound design to create an even more immersive experience with the highly rated series.
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Capt. Jay takes a road trip up to the Charleston, SC and joins fellow Shimano Pro Peter Brown in pursuit of everyone’s favorite low country marsh species.
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If you’ve seen a striper attack a Doc, you’ll agree that the fish seems more motivated by anger than hunger, punishing the plug with its tail and snout before engulfing it.
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“Why does the centerpin work?” His response: it works because it provides a natural drift. A centerpin looks like a large-diameter fly reel, but it has no drag, which allows it to spin freely on its axis (its “center pin”) forward and backward. Centerpin reels do have a clicker, but it is used for transporting the reel, and not for fishing.
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The Gulf of Mexico is full of wonders, not the least of which are the schools of the normally elusive permit that congregate around wrecks in its green waters. In this episode of Into the Blue, captains Steve Rodger and Scott Walker are back at it, starting off a brand new season with a day chasing permit in the Gulf.
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In this episode of Sweetwater, hosts Joey Nania and Miles Burghoff spend a day fishing on Nickajack Lake to hit the late fall bass bite. After unhitching their Nitro boat off their B&W trailer hitch, they head out for a versatile day on the water with changing weather conditions forcing them to shift their strategies, acting as a great example of how an angler can adjust to stay with the fish.
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In this episode of Saltwater Experience, Captains Tom Rowland and Rich Tudor join up with Nick Labadie, an accomplished guide in Key West, Florida. It happens to be Rowland’s birthday, so, to celebrate, the trio sets out to try for a Grand Slam, an impressive accomplishment in which an angler catches a tarpon, a bonefish, and a permit in one day. It’s a race against time leading to an incredible day on the water and a memorable birthday for Rowland. We’ll take a look at some of the techniques they employed to catch each species so that you can go out and get your own Key West Grand Slam.
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In this episode of Sweetwater, Joey Nania takes his two sons, Zeke and Eli, fishing out on Lake Chickamauga. With two very excited young boys, Nania’s passion evident in them, it makes for an exciting and uniquely rewarding day for the Sweetwater host. Miles Burghoff joins Nania to talk about the importance of teaching kids to fish and some of the best ways to do that.
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In the final episode of Sweetwater’s fifth season, the boys Miles Burghoff and Joey Nania summarize what their respective days were like when fishing with FLW tour pros Bryan Thrift and Brian Latimer.
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When you think of delicious game fish in the Florida Keys, tripletail is probably not the first thing that comes to mind due to its dinosaur-like appearance. But captains Tom Rowland and Rich Tudor of Saltwater Experience are here to make you rethink that presupposition.
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The Gulf of Mexico is full of wonders, not the least of which are the schools of the normally elusive permit that congregate around wrecks in its green waters. In this episode of Into the Blue, captains Steve Rodger and Scott Walker are back at it, starting off a brand new season with a day chasing permit in the Gulf.
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Sweetwater hosts Joey Nania and Miles Burghoff head out to Nickajack Lake just outside of Chattanooga, TN to meet up with 4-time FLW Tournament winner Buddy Gross for some bass fishing. In this episode, they’ll take a look at some of Gross’s techniques for fishing grass mats and using frog baits to bring in loads of fish.
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In the third episode of Sweetwater’s fifth season, special guest Andy Morgan, otherwise known as the GOAT, joins Miles Burghoff and Joey Nania on Lake Chickamauga in Dayton, Tennessee.
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As Captains Tom Rowland and Rich Tudor set out for tarpon fishing on this episode of Saltwater Experience, they are met with 20 mph winds as a cold front sets in. Thankfully their bay boat allows them to navigate the shallow canals of the mangrove islands where they can fish for snappers.
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In this episode of Saltwater Experience, Captains Tom Rowland and Rich Tudor take a stab at sailfishing after hearing about a ton of incredible ballyhoo sprays in the deeper waters of Florida. Though the conditions aren’t quite right at first, keeping them inshore for the morning, they eventually improve enough that Tudor feels comfortable taking his bay boat out into the open sea. Once they’re out there, though, it’s a pretty incredible sight to see.
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In this episode of Sweetwater’s fifth season, skillful fisherman Joey Nania and Miles “Sonar” Burghoff delve into what life is like on the waterways of Nickajack Lake in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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