2023 Welcome to Summer!

8 lb., 26″ Redfish – Caught 6/25/2023
Summer started with rainy days but the past couple of days have been calm and pretty in St. Joe Bay.
Time to schedule your trip?

Summer started with rainy days but the past couple of days have been calm and pretty in St. Joe Bay.
Time to schedule your trip?
This is an article I received in April after meeting Mike and Dana while fishing in the canal. Meet Captain Mark Lyle who fishes commercially and offers flat bottom fishing charters in St. Joe Bay. We were sight seeing on the ICW just before Lake Wimico, about 12 miles west of Appalachicola in our dinghy,…
Scallop season is reopened from August 28, 2024 – September 24, 2024 unless changed by the FWC. You can view the regulations at MYFWC.com. On a recent trip to Port St. Joe, I took a visitor from Texas on his first ever scalloping adventure. It lasted several hours but we didn’t get near our quota….
Tropical Storm Karen is currently churning in the Gulf of Mexico and we are on storm watch until Wednesday, 10/9/13 as is stands now. The current path will certainly affect our area with possible heavy rainfall. Normally we would tell you to stay up to date with NOAA.gov but that website is currently closed for…
Scallop season is July 1 to September 10 unless extended. It has been extended each of the past two years so we’ll have to wait to see. Scalloping is done in shallow water (less than 3 feet) and is a lot of fun, at least picking them from the water is fun. Shucking them, not…
It wasn’t the most beautiful day but today’s outing with some young men from Tennessee was a “catching” trip. The catch of the day included speckled trout and bluefish.
It’s hard to believe we’re already almost through February 2019! On October 10, 2018, Hurricane Michael blew into the Florida Panhandle with landfall at Mexico Beach and Tyndall AFB. It’s the worst storm I’ve seen here and devastating doesn’t really describe what we lived through but we are safe and will rebuild. The good news…