Since the 1995 net bans, anglers have enjoyed bigger pompano and Spanish mackerel from Stuart and Miami to Homosassa, with abundant recreational catches.

Employing frisky live bait indigenous to the water fished is almost always the most effective way to catch fish in fresh and saltwater. Bait shops do a good job of providing live baitfish or shrimp to ...

An efficient and effective means of catching fish, a cast net is a circular net with a string of weights around the edge and a hand line in the center. Like the name suggests, it works by throwing the ...

The fish are biting − but are you licensed to catch them? Go Outdoors Florida, an online licensing system for anglers and hunters, offers a quick and easy way to prepare for your next fishing or ...

Florida voters decided overwhelmingly to enshrine the right to hunt and fish into Florida’s constitution. Amendment 2 passed by of the 60% needed to pass, chalking up 6,927,876 (67.4%) 'yes' votes, to ...

An endangered smalltooth sawfish, entangled in a fishing net, was rescued in the Intracoastal Waterway near Lantana, Florida. The sawfish, typically found in waters on the west coast of Florida, was ...