Chrome Cruiser: Megalops Atlanticus aka Tarpon

Above Photographed Tarpon with half ounce white tailed jig in mouth caught on a Bluerunner under an AKA kite Casey Key beach.
Imagine150 pounds of a chrome rocket launching out of the water and then taking off on a 200-yard run, while dancing on its tail to the tune of your screaming drag; welcome to the world of tarpon fishing. Megalops Atlanticus aka Tarpon, Silver kings, the Silver Bullet, from the upper Keys to the Venice Pier, Sarasota Bay, the Sunshine Skyway and Egmont Channel, The tarpon fishing has been pretty consistent for the month of April and it is only going to get better with May and June around the corner. This is prime time for migrating fish. Some people prefer to fly fish for ocean cruising fish, or laid up fish in the backcountry, and others rather catch them on bait. It really does not matter how you catch them, they are one of the most exciting fish to catch on any tackle heavy to light with light being the bear of them all and not recommended unless you possess a permit because the lactose build up in the fish is a sure killer on light tackle landings. Tarpon have an affinity for points, bridges, rivers, channels, hard bottoms and cuts while alluring itself into areas of stagnant water devoid of all others with the exception of any large pod of baitfishes. Engorging food with minimal effort to its maximum affordability.

अक फिशिंग किट्स कात्च मोरे फिश!

When flying a kite, just like casting your first conventional, practice makes perfect in putting out your AKA, Kahula kite. If you are kiting from a fishing vessel, it just takes a little practice to keep the boat motion either with the engine at an idle speed or with a drift so that the kite remains in the same relative vertical space over your honey hole consistently. The Kite is actually a vertical outrigger. From the highest point on your boat, the kite is launched and flown from the stern of a boat from its own rod and reel. A short stubby stoker attached to an EverolUSA 6/12 WP with PowerPro 16/65, and fishing line attached at the kite similar to an outrigger, only instead of keeping the line out, it keeps it up, is used in presenting your baits to the waiting trophies below. If propelling at a slow troll or idle drift your bait will be suspended just below the surface. As your bait, like a live bluerunner, is just at the surface, it will thrash and become excited in an attempt to get further below the surface. Ideally, the best in bait presentation when fishing for Kings, El Dorado or Billfishes is fishing live baits under a kite and do not forget some of the IGFA record tunas have been caught too.

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Shark Bite Right near Venice Beach Florida

Venice Shark's Tooth Festival 2009
The festival opens from 4 to 9 p.m. Friday, swings into high gear from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and concludes Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the airport festival grounds at the end of Airport Avenue in Venice, Florida.
More than 100 artisans will market homemade crafts, food, jewelry and clothes.
The Shark's Tooth Festival also features children's adventures such as the Shark's Tooth Scramble and a hands-on exhibit designed by Mote Aquarium in Sarasota.
Live entertainment will include country western, calypso, reggae, salsa, rock, and blues.

INTO SHARKS & PIER FISHING?

Venice Pier Anglers is a mirrored site to Inshore Florida with the exception it is land locked, as the participants are those who fish the Venice City Pier at Sharky’s. From children young adults angling tournaments to clinics and more experienced anglers angling for Kings, Tarpon and sharks in the 100 of pound classes; Venice Pier Anglers to Inshore Florida is where you want to be!


Teaching Respect to the Environments of Today

For Your Children of Tomorrow!
Venice beaches reportedly collect more sharks' teeth than any other stretch of sand in the world!
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Anderson Florida Fishing Shorts: Saturday, March 28, 2009

Zippity Do DA, Zippity Day, My Oh my what a windy ole’ day; Winds continue to be heavy, setting back any coming of kingfish by at least a week। Anglers should be using a variety of baits, such as white bait to straws in bagging bragging rights to some of the biggest Spanish mackerel seen in years just off the beaches of inshore Florida। Larger mackerel have invaded the artificial reefs 5 to 7 miles offshore along with scattered kingfish. During the daytime, pompano and nice-size sea trout are being caught in the holes adjacent to the flats, and Reds are found tailing falling tides along side channels to docks.

Kahula Fishing Kites Catch Fish!

Kingfish Fever

Remember the Acme Yo-Yo and doing the “walk the dog” trick as it went up and down? That trick and all reminds me of our passing cold fronts, up and down temperature readings, along with baits trying to make it to the beach line. As each day the water temperature tries to hit that magically delouse number of 68 to 72 degrees, only to plummet as March continues to roar in like a lion. Yesterday, the temperature at the pier in Venice, Florida was a hot 71 degrees (water) and the mackerels abounded everywhere within the Spanish to Cero lines. Couple this with a westerly wind and we will begin to see smoke as that big daddy of them all will appear just off the beaches as King fever begins its migration north as spring temperatures prevail and the baits pod along the bars in a smorgasbord of delights to all in a feeding frenzy to Kingfish fever. The “schoolies” are the first on the scene, showing up as schooled mackerel falling within the small to fifteen-pound class. All Kingfish under twenty-four inches, measured from the fork, must be returned back to the water as they are undersized and against the law to possess. Kingfish must be 24 inches or longer if kept, with a limit of two. It is all in the tails folks, from the dorsal to the tail and you too can tell the difference between a regular mackerel (Spanish or Cero) and the Kingfish. Some of you experts say it is in the color or spots and sometimes that works but sometimes all mackerel look similar and it can be confusing even to an expert just by judging it spots. All fish have a lateral line on them. Some colored in scale others in an actual line, like the Mackerels. By looking at this line, you can save yourself the embarrassment of a ticket and be an expert too. King Mackerels have a break or sudden drop in their lateral line in the shape of a slanted “L”. Spanish and all the other mackerels have either a wavy or dropping lateral line with no slanted “L” shape. In addition, Kingfish minimal slot is 24 inches at the fork to keep with a possession limit of two per person. All other mackerels are minimal slot 12” at the fork, with 15 fish in possession per person. Stupid is not looking for that slanted “L”. Large King fish are considered Smokers because they can burn up a drag on a fishing reel and Smokers are caught out at the end of Sharky's on the Pier, with the "T-Gang”; those angling the trolley system.

West Coast Florida Fishing Report: Venice

If you can bear the cold, there are some nice sheepshead along the Venice inlet. The whiting bite continues to be excellent on the beaches of from the jetties down to the city pier. Small trout are being caught on trolling grubs and sinking Mirr0Lures in the Alley. For bigger trout, flounder and some black drum, fish the north side of the south jetties at the inlet. The fish are in the deeper water. It is a Welsh wind on the end of the pier and if you can brave these elements, have fresh mullet and the virtue of patience a shark is almost a hook up nightly. Wear layered clothing to prevent that chill to the bone from that Welsh wind. A Welsh wind is a lazy wind; it would rather blow through you than around you.

Ban on Gag Grouper Fishing Killing Florida’s Economy

Federal and state fishery managers have closed recreational fishing in the Gulf of Mexico for gag starting February 01, 2009 and continuing until March to stop overfishing. Overfishing means gags caught at an unstained rate, although gag stocks do not suggest evidence of overfishing; go figure how this came about without evidence in a decision to cost southwest Floridians millions in lost revenues. Out of all the time in which to pick a closure, the council closes the season down during a time when this type of fishing is at a peak in bring in angling dollars in state to merchant revenues. A trickle down effect could cause small businesses to close and tourist dollars to go elsewhere. Tourist to locals who spend money to go private charter fishing target the first three months of the year as the best opportunity in catching a grouper and will plan their trips accordingly around this angling event. Peak Snowbird season (tourists) is February and March of any given year. With this new ruling, it doubles last year's original recreational closure, from Feb. 15 to March 15. At a time where housing is at a rock bottom low and the dollar in a stimulus mode why, would anyone wish more ills on an already plagued state of economical failings? This closure may need to be but not at a time where people are depending on Gag dollars to pay the bills. By placing an additional ban on gag grouper by extending the closed season through Florida’s peak tourists time, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Southeast Region and the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council are killing Florida’s economy in Gag Dollars. These dollars represented in the forms of lost tackle sales, fuel sales, charter captain sales, fishing license sales, food, and ice and lodging all lost because of bad timing. In a time where we are all pinching pennies, someone needs to do their homework before taking dollars away from us anglers.