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Fishy Spots
November 19, 2012
Cockroach Bay
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Depending on how long you've been fishing this area, there might be places you've heard of but haven't fished. Somehow considered privately-held and owned by the people that fish them almost exclusively (any area of the country and world have areas "owned" by locals), since they're water, they belong to nobody and everybody. There are so very many places like this in the area you can't fish them all unless you do it for… Read More
March 05, 2012
Where to Fish in the City
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If you often think about where to fish - which we find ourselves doing often for obvious reasons - you quickly recognize how unique a place like Florida is. With a good percentage of available real estate within minutes of the coastline, even residents that live hours from the smell of brine in the air are only minutes from fish. Nationally, far more anglers seek largemouth or smallmouth bass (with trout and salmon a… Read More
August 23, 2011
Allen Creek
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As fall turns into winter, some of the North Bay spots we fish in the coldest months start coming to life. This article is about Allen Creek on the Northwest side of Tampa Bay and is a place that holds beautiful fish in the winter. The bridge spanning this western bay hasn't always been there. When we were kids, the bay was open here. The spot can best be identified on Google Earth or Bing by the tip of the runway coming… Read More
August 16, 2011
Finding Spillways...
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I'm really lucky to live in an old neighborhood called Crescent Heights in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Construction here began in the early twenties, and it was one of the first real neighborhoods in what was a rapidly-growing residential area near the mouth of Tampa Bay. The reason for putting houses here is simple to seem even though it's nearly 100 years later; Crescent Lake (after which the neigborhood was named) is… Read More
May 05, 2011
The Kitchen
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In the spring of 1988, a storage tank owned by a company called Gardinier, Inc (a fertilizer manufacturer owned by Cargill out of Minnesota) had something go wrong with a primary valve. A few minutes after the valve got stuck, it broke. As a result, 28,000 gallons of phosphoric acid poured into the prinstine sweetwater of the Alafia River. And from there into Tampa Bay. The fish-kill that happened as a result of that… Read More
May 03, 2011
The Howard Frankland Bridge
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From the Publisher: This article about the Howard Frankland bridge is associated with a Fishy Spot map, which you can access and download and print (or watch on your smartphone) if you're a registered user. Even without the map, though, the bridge is an excellent fishery in the spring and early summer (all summer, really). This story about the bridge, and the fish you can catch there is right for this time of the year,… Read More
February 09, 2011
River Tarpon and the Rough Riders
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From the publisher: We felt this was a good time to re-publish this piece about a place where the Rough Riders (the special-operations guys drinking rum with Teddy Roosevelt before getting chosen as his companions in the Spanish/American War) used to sleep -- and maybe catch crabs for lunch. The site's near downtown Tampa, and is a place you can find blue crab and tarpon in the winter -- right longside largemouth bass… Read More
October 05, 2010
Shore fishing and pottery shards
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Fort Desoto is a place that's been attracting campers and fishers for a long time; there are scientists that venture to say as many as 10,000 years. We do know that for the last 400 years our entire region's attracted a wide array of western and world travellers. At first those travellers met the Tocaba Indians -- the latest tribe we have some vague information about. They had been here since roughly 1,000 A.D. The… Read More
August 31, 2010
The Frankland
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With Labor Day approaching, there will be a lot of boats on the water, and many end up in the same places. Large structures offer a place where eight or ten boats could easily carry three people per boat for a weekend day trip that produces time on the water, time together, and maybe even a fish or two. This Trip Plan for the Howard Frankland applies to all the bridges in the bay, with some specific tips included. A… Read More
July 17, 2010
The Bay Middle Grounds
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This area is well known to locals, but not as fished as you might think. It's wide open water, and a range of bottom structure -- as you can see from this screen capture of the map's general area -- is perfect to attract bait. In fact, if you're looking for bait, and put your boat in at any of the several ramps in the middle of Tampa Bay, you're very close to the spot. That's the Gandy Bridge at the top of this image.… Read More
May 15, 2010
Finding Bait
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This "Bait" map is only a small inkling of a new level of content you're going to be seeing from the team at TheOnlineFisherman.com. This map will be showing you where you can throw a castnet, or drop Sabiki rigs down to catch anything from Pilchard sardines (what we call Scaled sardines), Threadfins, and Shad. Among the other maps you'll be seeing are maps about where Reports are coming from, Maps about where to get… Read More
