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3 days ago | 
bradenton.com | Jon Chapman
Angler Lee Oung knows fishing during the day on the backside of a full moon can be hit or miss. The big moon was on April 12, a clear and beautiful night, and that means fish like snapper are active in the nocturnal hours when they use the light of the moon to feed.
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3 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Jon Chapman
Angler Lee Oung knows fishing during the day on the backside of a full moon can be hit or miss. The big moon was on April 12, a clear and beautiful night, and that means fish like snapper are active in the nocturnal hours when they use the light of the moon to feed.
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1 week ago | 
bradenton.com | Jon Chapman
Springtime in Manatee County is the beginning of tournament fishing season for many anglers. No stranger to winning, Joe Medred and friends have risen atop many leaderboards throughout the years. Last weekend, Medred and his longtime teammate Chris Cucci found themselves raising the next crop of anglers while fishing for a great cause at a tournament he helped begin. The 7th Annual Chad Day Memorial Fishing Tournament went overnight in windy weather but good fishing.
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1 week ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Jon Chapman
Springtime in Manatee County is the beginning of tournament fishing season for many anglers. No stranger to winning, Joe Medred and friends have risen atop many leaderboards throughout the years. Last weekend, Medred and his longtime teammate Chris Cucci found themselves raising the next crop of anglers while fishing for a great cause at a tournament he helped begin. The 7th Annual Chad Day Memorial Fishing Tournament went overnight in windy weather but good fishing.
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2 weeks ago | 
bradenton.com | Jon Chapman
Captain Brock Wagner says he and his wife try to live a simple life. “I’m 55 and I don’t really follow the internet a lot. Maybe a little Facebook presence, but that’s about it. I guide in the Everglades and am kind of a one-trick pony,” the inshore-based captain Wagner explained. But the couple’s lives got chaotic in an unfortunate way following a viral video that surfaced Wednesday afternoon. “My phone rang at 10:30 or 11 o’clock that night.
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3 weeks ago | 
bradenton.com | Jon Chapman
Key West grunt. Grey snapper. Wayne Gruntzky. White grunt. Rob Gruntkowski. Flannelmouth. Haemulon plumieri. No matter what you call it, it is far from one of the most glamorous species caught in the Gulf. Nevertheless, the grunt, or whatever you name it, is one of the most oft caught species off Florida’s west coast. They aren’t picky, eating squid, shrimp, crabs, live bait, dead bait, artificial and seemingly everything in between.
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3 weeks ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Jon Chapman
Key West grunt. Grey snapper. Wayne Gruntzky. White grunt. Rob Gruntkowski. Flannelmouth. Haemulon plumieri. No matter what you call it, it is far from one of the most glamorous species caught in the Gulf. Nevertheless, the grunt, or whatever you name it, is one of the most oft caught species off Florida’s west coast. They aren’t picky, eating squid, shrimp, crabs, live bait, dead bait, artificial and seemingly everything in between.
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1 month ago | 
bradenton.com | Jon Chapman
On March 13, 36-year-old Drake Sweet went missing nearly 70 miles off the west coast of Florida in the Gulf. Sweet was with a friend diving a wreck and shooting fish in 140 feet of water. At around 4 p.m., he never surfaced from a dive. The friend called for help and a search began with the Coast Guard leading the lookout by air and sea. Sweet by all accounts was known as one of the best free divers who has an impressive showcase of fish across his social media accounts.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Jon Chapman
On March 13, 36-year-old Drake Sweet went missing nearly 70 miles off the west coast of Florida in the Gulf. Sweet was with a friend diving a wreck and shooting fish in 140 feet of water. At around 4 p.m., he never surfaced from a dive. The friend called for help and a search began with the Coast Guard leading the lookout by air and sea. Sweet by all accounts was known as one of the best free divers who has an impressive showcase of fish across his social media accounts.
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1 month ago | 
bradenton.com | Jon Chapman
When the clocks sprang forward last weekend, it provided a seasonal opportunity for anglers. The extra hour of daylight at the end of the day now coincides with the usual best time to fish, the few hours before the sun dips west into the horizon. For most 9-to-5ers, the extra hour means more daylight fishing time if they decide to head out after a final punching of the clock for the day. Or perhaps leaving work and doing something more drastic to get on the water.
