Redfish BayFAIR. 73 degrees. Redfish are good and firing up after the cold front. The best bite is on cut mullet, shrimp.

LIVE BAIT is cheating. If I’ve heard it once I’ve heard it 10,000 times. The level of cheating, of course, varies by species and age. Any child under 15 can use live bait for whatever he or she wants.

Some of the best fish foods you can cast out might require you to collect them yourself or find a regional shop that carries harder-to-find baits. There might even be a few species on this list that ...

1. At Big Pier 60 in Clearwater, big snook starting up late at night on live baits under the pier. A 36-inch keeper cobia caught Wednesday, along with daily Spanish mackerel and flounder. Water ...

Ever since George Fotiades was 3 years old, he had a curiosity for fish at the shore. “As he got older he would catch them with a hook and line or net them, and if that didn’t work he would throw ...