Best Bets: Weather’s warm, but the fishing’s not
A brief taste of spring brought anglers out in droves this week.
A brief taste of spring brought anglers out in droves this week.
Continued cold weather and high winds, except Monday, have kept anglers off the water and even out of tackle shops.
This week’s brief break from winter brought out anglers en masse. The fish noticed, too.
Anglers are reminded snook season will not open March 1, due to severe losses during the January cold snap.
The good news is the outlook for the coming weekend is all smiles, with temperatures climbing and winds abating, at least until Monday.
Robin Ramming, manager of the Bait Box on Sanibel, said “The people who are going fishing are catching some fish.”
Fishing reports have picked up a tick or two over the past week, as fish and fishermen get used to cool conditions.
The powerboaters nudged toward the two canoeists as close as they could without forcing their boat’s hull into the muddy bottom.
Tackle shops are reporting slow business and fairly slow fishing, but there have been some very encouraging exceptions to those trends.
Fishing is getting back to normal after the recent withering cold spell.
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